ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328303
| Date: | Tuesday 8 July 1980 |
| Time: | 00:39 |
| Type: |  Tupolev Tu-154B-2 |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot, Kazakstan Civil Aviation Directorate |
| Registration: | CCCP-85355 |
| MSN: | 79A355 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2438 hours |
| Cycles: | 1124 flights |
| Engine model: | Kuznetsov NK-8-2U |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 166 / Occupants: 166 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 5 km from Alma-Ata Airport (ALA) -
 Kazakhstan
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Alma-Ata Airport (ALA/UAAA) |
| Rostov Airport (ROV/URRR) |
Two minutes after takeoff from Alma-Ata, at a height of 120-150 m, the plane entered a zone of high air temperature (30-40 deg C) where the airspeed dropped because of the wind. Then the plane was caught in a downdraft and stalled. It descended nose down until it struck a farm and crashed on a wheat field near the suburbs of Alma-Ata. The Tu-154 disintegrated and caught fire, slid through a field and fell into a ravine.
The airplane operated on a flight to Rostov Airport (ROV) and Simferopol Airport (SIP).
Sources:
airdisaster.ru
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