Aeroflot accidents and incidents

Founded in 1923, Aeroflot, the flag carrier and largest airline of Russia (formerly the Soviet Union), has had a high number of fatal crashes, with a total of 8,231 passengers dying in Aeroflot crashes according to the Aircraft Crashes Record Office, mostly during the Soviet era, about five times more than any other airline.[1][2] From 1946 to 1989, the carrier was involved in 721 incidents. From 1995 to 2017, the carrier was involved in 10 incidents. In 2013, AirlineRatings.com reported that five of the ten aircraft models involved in the highest numbers of fatal accidents[3] were old Soviet models.[1]

Aviation columnist Patrick Smith stated that Aeroflot's raw crash totals including the Soviet Union era may not give a total picture of the airline's safety record, because the airline was divided into pieces after the conclusion of the Soviet era; according to Smith, the size of Aeroflot's Soviet era operation was the equivalent of all of the large airlines in the United States at the time combined.[4] In the Soviet Union, there was only one airline, that being Aeroflot.[1]

Following is a list of accidents and incidents Aeroflot experienced from 1932 to the present.

  1. ^ a b c Smith, Oliver (9 February 2016). "Aeroflot: from world's deadliest airline to one of the safest in the sky". The Telegraph.
  2. ^ "History of Aeroflot--Russian International Airlines – FundingUniverse".
  3. ^ Smith, Oliver (4 February 2016). "'Least safe' aircraft models revealed". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  4. ^ Smith, Patrick (7 May 2013). Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections. Sourcebooks. p. 207. ISBN 9781402280931.