Accident | |
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Date | 13 January 1977 |
Summary | Left engine fire leading to a loss of flight controls |
Site | Near Almaty Airport, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-104B |
Operator | Aeroflot |
Registration | СССР-42369 |
Flight origin | Khabarovsk Airport |
Stopover | Novosibirsk |
Destination | Almaty Airport |
Occupants | 90 |
Passengers | 82 |
Crew | 8 |
Fatalities | 90[1] |
Survivors | 0 |
Aeroflot Flight 3843 was a Soviet Union commercial flight that crashed on January 13, 1977, after a left engine fire near Almaty Airport. All 90 people on board perished in the crash.[2]