Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154M plane crash
Key facts
- Airline
- Vladivostok Avia
- Aircraft
- Tupolev TU-154M
- Location
- Burdanovka, Russia
- Date
- 3rd July, 2001
- People on board
- 145
- Fatalities
- 145
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Accident account
The aircraft was operating on a passenger flight from Yekaterinburg to Vladivostok with an intermediate stop at Irkutsk. Two approaches to the airport were aborted. During the last approach to land, the aircraft entered a flat spin. The captain ordered the throttles to be advanced, but the crew was unable to regain control. After spinning for 22 seconds, the aircraft slammed down on its belly, broke up and burned.. All 145 passengers and crew members were killed.
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