Accident | |
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Date | 17 March 2007 |
Summary | Structural failure during an emergency landing |
Site | Samara Kurumoch Airport (IATA: KUF; ICAO: UWWW) near Samara, Russia |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-134A-3 |
Operator | UTair Aviation |
Registration | RA-65021 |
Flight origin | Surgut Airport |
Stopover | Samara Kurumoch Airport |
Destination | Belgorod International Airport |
Occupants | 57 |
Passengers | 50 |
Crew | 7 |
Fatalities | 6 |
Injuries | 20 |
Survivors | 51 |
UTair Flight 471[1] was a scheduled domestic passenger flight of a Tupolev Tu-134 on 17 March 2007, that suffered heavy structural damage during a hard landing at Samara Kurumoch Airport near Samara, Russia. Of the 50 passengers and 7 crew members on board, 6 people were killed and 20 injured when the aircraft broke apart.[2][3] The plane was flying from the Siberian city of Surgut to Samara and then to Belgorod.