Aeroflot Flight 8641
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Aeroflot Flight 8641 was a Yakovlev Yak-42 airliner on a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) to Kiev (now Kyiv). On 28 June 1982, the flight crashed south of Mazyr, Byelorussian SSR, killing all 132 people on board. The accident was both the first and deadliest crash of a Yakovlev Yak-42, and remains the deadliest aviation accident in Belarus.[1][2]
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Accident | |
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Date | 28 June 1982; 41 years ago (1982-06-28) |
Summary | Jackscrew failure due to metal fatigue; design flaw |
Site | Near Mazyr, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union 52°0′N 29°13′E |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Yakovlev Yak-42 |
Operator | Aeroflot |
Registration | СССР-42529 |
Flight origin | Pulkovo Airport, Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Destination | Kiev (now Kyiv)-Zhuliany International Airport, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Occupants | 132 |
Passengers | 124 |
Crew | 8 |
Fatalities | 132 |
Survivors | 0 |
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The cause was a failure of the jackscrew controlling the horizontal stabilizer due to a design flaw.