Accident | |
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Date | 30 August 1983 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain caused by pilot error and ATC error |
Site | 36 km (22 mi; 19 nmi) from Alma-Ata Airport, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-134A |
Operator | Aeroflot |
Registration | CCCP-65129 |
Flight origin | Chelyabinsk Airport, Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Destination | Alma-Ata Airport, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
Occupants | 90 |
Passengers | 84 |
Crew | 6 |
Fatalities | 90 |
Survivors | 0 |
Aeroflot Flight 5463 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Chelyabinsk to Almaty which crashed on 30 August 1983 while approaching Almaty. The Tupolev Tu-134A collided with the western slope of Dolan Mountain at an altitude of 690 m (2,260 ft). As a result of the accident, all ninety people on board were killed. Crew error was cited as the cause of the accident.[1]