Accident | |
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Date | 12 June 1980 |
Summary | Crew and ATC errors, CFIT |
Site | 44 km from Dushanbe (Tajik SSR, USSR) 38°51′2″N 68°30′18″E / 38.85056°N 68.50500°E |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Yakovlev Yak-40 |
Operator | Aeroflot (Tajik RPO GA, Kurgan-Tyube AP) |
Registration | CCCP-87689 |
Flight origin | Leninabad Airport |
Destination | Dushanbe Airport |
Occupants | 29 |
Passengers | 25 |
Crew | 4 |
Fatalities | 29 |
Survivors | 0 |
Aeroflot Flight Sh-88 was a scheduled domestic flight from Leninabad (now Khujand) to Dushanbe that crashed on June 12, 1980, near Dushanbe, resulting in the deaths of all 29 people on board, due to crew errors and air traffic control failures.