Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612

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Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612

RA-85185, the Tu-154 involved, photographed in January 2004
Accident
Date	22 August 2006 (2006-08-22)
Summary	Entered unrecoverable stall in-flight due to pilot error[1]
Site	Sukha Balka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine 48°19′59.56″N 37°44′44.83″E / 48.3332111°N 37.7457861°E / 48.3332111; 37.7457861
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Tupolev Tu-154M
Operator	Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise
IATA flight No.	FV612
ICAO flight No.	PLK612
Call sign	Pulkovo 612
Registration	RA-85185
Flight origin	Anapa Airport, Anapa, Russia
Destination	Pulkovo Airport, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Occupants	170
Passengers	160
Crew	10
Fatalities	170
Survivors	0

Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by Saint Petersburg-based airline Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise, flying from Anapa Airport to Pulkovo Airport in Saint Petersburg. The aircraft crashed in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border, on 22 August 2006. All 170 people on board were killed.^[2]

The crash was the deadliest aviation accident in 2006. At the time it was the deadliest crash in modern Ukrainian history and the second deadliest in Ukraine, after the 1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision. The death toll was eventually surpassed in 2014 when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down 40 miles (64 km) east of where Flight 612 had crashed, also located in Donetsk Oblast, killing all 298 people on board.^[3]