Aeroflot Flight 5143

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Aeroflot Flight 5143

Wreckage of CCCP-85311
Accident
Date	10 July 1985
Summary	Crashed after high-altitude stall
Site	Uchkuduk, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union 42°9′24″N 63°33′20″E / 42.15667°N 63.55556°E / 42.15667; 63.55556
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Tupolev Tu-154B-2
Operator	Aeroflot
Registration	CCCP-85311
Flight origin	Karshi Airport, USSR
Stopover	Ufa Airport, USSR
Destination	Pulkovo Airport, USSR
Occupants	200
Passengers	191
Crew	9
Fatalities	200
Survivors	0

Aeroflot Flight 5143 was a domestic scheduled Karshi–Ufa–Leningrad passenger flight that crashed near Uchkuduk, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union, on 10 July 1985. The crash killed all 200 occupants (148 adults, including 9 crewmembers, and 52 children) on board. Investigators determined that crew fatigue was a factor in the accident.^[1]

Flight 5143 remains the deadliest air disaster in Soviet and Uzbek aviation history, the deadliest in Aeroflot's history, and the deadliest accident involving a Tupolev Tu-154.^[1]