Date: | Wednesday 21 August 1963 |
Time: | 12:15 |
Type: | Tupolev Tu-124 |
Owner/operator: | Aeroflot, Moscow Civil Aviation Directorate |
Registration: | CCCP-45021 |
MSN: | 2350701 |
Year of manufacture: | 1962 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 52 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Neva River -
Russia
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Tallinn-Ülemiste Airport (TLL/EETN) |
Destination airport: | Moskva-Vnukovo Airport (VKO/UUWW) |
Narrative:The Tupolev took off from Tallinn at 08:55 and it appeared the undercarriage didn't retract. The flight diverted to Leningrad (because of fog at Tallinn) at low altitude. At 11:00 the aircraft started to circle the city at 1650 feet. The eighth and last was started at 12:10 when, at 13 miles from the airport, the no. 1 engine quit. The remaining engine quit shortly thereafter and a ditch was carried out in the 300 metres wide River Neva. All passengers remained on aboard as the floating aircraft was towed ashore.
Sources:
Soviet Transports Ditch or crash-land?/B.W. Townshend, 1965 (47-49)
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