Aeroflot Flight 141 (1973)

Aeroflot Flight 141 (1973)
Accident summary
An Aeroflot Tu-154 similar to the aircraft involved
Date	February 19, 1973 (1973-02-19)
Summary	Undetermined
Site	0.5 km from Prague Ruzyně Airport
Passengers	87
Crew	13
Fatalities	66
Survivors	34
Aircraft type	Tupolev Tu-154
Operator	Aeroflot/International
Registration	CCCP-85023
Flight origin	Sheremetyevo Airport
Destination	Prague Ruzyně Airport

Aeroflot Flight 141 was an international flight from Moscow to Prague. On February 19, 1973, the Tupolev Tu-154 crashed half a kilometer short of runway 25 (today's 24) of Prague Ruzyně Airport. Most of the passengers survived the crash but many died in the fire that followed. Altogether 66 people died out of 100 passengers and crew members. The crash was the first loss of and first fatal accident involving the Tu-154.^[1]

The cause of the incident was not officially determined. One theory stated wind shear, another was that the pilots wrongly set a horizontal stabilizer. The investigation of the accident also showed that controlling of the stabilizers was complicated. This was solved when Tu-154 aircraft were modernized to Tu-154A.

References

↑ Accident description for CCCP-85023 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2014-9-2.

Coordinates: 50°07′04″N 14°16′44″E / 50.1178°N 14.2789°E / 50.1178; 14.2789

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Jan 22 Kano air disaster
Jan 29 EgyptAir Il-18 crash
Feb 19 Aeroflot Flight 141
Feb 21 Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114
Feb 26 DeKalb–Peachtree Airport Learjet 24 crash
Mar 3 Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 307
Mar 5 Nantes mid-air collision
Apr 10 Invicta International Airlines Flight 435
May 31 Indian Airlines Flight 440
Jun 6 1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144
Jun 20 Aeroméxico Flight 229
Jul 11 Varig Flight 820
Jul 22 Pan Am Flight 816
Jul 23 Japan Air Lines Flight 404
Jul 23 Ozark Air Lines Flight 809
Jul 31 Delta Air Lines Flight 723
Aug 13 Aviaco Flight 118
Sep 11 JAT Airways Flight 769
Sep 27 Texas International Airlines Flight 655
Sep 30 Aeroflot Flight 3932
Oct 13 Aeroflot Flight 964
Nov 3 National Airlines Flight 27
Nov 23 Italian Air Force C-47 "Argo 16"
Nov 25 KLM Flight 861
Dec 17 Pan Am Flight 110 and Lufthansa hijacking

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