Aeroflot Flight 1691

1979 aviation accident

53°36′2″N 37°18′32″E / 53.60056°N 37.30889°E / 53.60056; 37.30889AircraftAircraft typeTupolev Tu-104BOperatorAeroflot-UkraineRegistrationСССР-42444Flight originMoscow Vnukovo International AirportDestinationOdessa Central AirportPassengers113Crew6Fatalities58 (57 passengers, 1 crew)Survivors61

Aeroflot Flight 1691 crashed near Moscow Vnukovo Airport on 17 March 1979 killing 58 of the 119 people on board. The Tupolev Tu-104B operating the flight was overloaded and the crew received a false fire alarm.^[1]

Accident sequence

Flight 1691 was due to leave for Odessa at 8:15 local time, but was delayed due to adverse weather conditions at both Odessa and Vnukovo. The Tupolev eventually took off at 19:32 local time. Five seconds after liftoff, the left engine fire alarm sounded in the cockpit. The plane continued climbing, and conducted a series of four turns back towards Vnukovo. The flaps were then deflected by 20 degrees. It then entered the glideslope at 360m and was 50m left of the runway centerline. The aircraft descended rapidly and 2.5 seconds before first impact, the crew moved the throttles to takeoff thrust and left them there, but this did nothing to save the aircraft. The first collision was the left main landing gear with some cables on a road near Vnukovo. The aircraft collided with the ground 1548 metres from the runway threshold. The left engine was torn from the aircraft as it rolled over and a fire broke out. 57 passengers and one stewardess were killed.^[2]

Investigation

The board found that the plane was overloaded. Other factors included the lack of communication between the crew and the false fire alarm caused by a mismatch of parts in the engine.^[2]

References

^ ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev 104B СССР-42444 Moskva-Vnukovo Airport (VKO)
^ ^a ^b Катастрофа Ту-104Б Украинского УГА в районе а/п Внуково (борт СССР-42444), 17 марта 1979 года. // AirDisaster.ru – авиационные происшествия, инциденты и авиакатастрофы в СССР ...

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Jan 30 Varig Flight 967 Feb 12 Air Rhodesia Flight 827 Feb 17 Air New Zealand Flight 4374 Mar 14 Alia Flight 600 Mar 17 Aeroflot Flight 1691 Mar 26 1979 Interflug Ilyushin Il-18 crash Mar 29 Quebecair Flight 255 Apr 4 TWA Flight 841 Apr 23 SAETA Flight 011 May 25 American Airlines Flight 191 May 30 Downeast Airlines Flight 46 Jun 17 Air New England Flight 248 Jun 20 American Airlines Flight 293 Jul 11 Garuda Fokker F28 crash Jul 26 Lufthansa Cargo Flight 527 Jul 31 Dan-Air Flight 0034 Aug 11 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision Aug 29 Aeroflot Flight 5484 Sep 14 Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 12 Oct 7 Swissair Flight 316 Oct 31 Western Airlines Flight 2605 Nov 15 American Airlines Flight 444 Nov 26 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 740 Nov 28 Air New Zealand Flight 901 Dec 18 Mosfellsheiði air crashes Dec 23 Turkish Airlines Ankara crash
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