Date:	Friday 14 January 1966
Time:
Type:	Tupolev Tu-134
Owner/operator:	Tupolev Design Bureau
Registration:	CCCP-45076
MSN:	0001
Year of manufacture:	1964
Engine model:	Soloviev D-20
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Chkalovsky -   Russia
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Test
Departure airport:
Destination airport:

Narrative:
CCCP-45076, the second Tupolev 134 prototype crashed whilst on trials with the air force scientific test institute NII VVS.
During a test flight the pilot had turned the rudder some twenty-five degrees without reducing speed. The aircraft turned sharply, entered a dive and crashed.

Soviet Transports
Tupolev: The Man and His Aircraft / Andrei Kandalov, Paul Duffy , 1996 (ISBN 1560918993)

photo (c) Georges Cozzika; Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG/LFPB); June 1965

photo (c) Georges Cozzika; Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG/LFPB); June 1965

photo (c) Georges Cozzika; Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG/LFPB); June 1965

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