CRASHES INVOLVING EX-SOVIET COUNTRIES’ AIRLINERS
The Associated Press
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Here are some of the more serious passenger plane crashes of the
past decade involving the airlines serving Russia and the former
Soviet Union.
Sept. 14, 2008: 88 people are killed when a Boeing 737-500 flying
from Moscow crashes as it prepares to land in the Russian city of Perm.
_Aug. 24, 2008: a Boeing 737-500 carrying 90 people, including a
Kyrgyz high-school sports team, crashes shortly after takeoff near
the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, killing 65.
Aug. 22, 2006: A Tupolev Tu-154 of Russia’s Pulkovo Airlines with
about 170 people aboard crashes in Ukraine en route from a Russian
resort to St. Petersburg. All on board are killed.
July 9, 2006: At least 124 people die when an Airbus A-310 of the
Russian company S7 skids off the runway in the Siberian city of
Irkutsk and bursts into flames.
May 3, 2006: An A-320 of the Armenian airline Armavia crashes into
the Black Sea while trying to land in the Russian resort city of
Sochi in rough weather, killing all 113 people aboard.
August 2004: 90 people die when two Russian airliners are blown up,
apparently by Chechen suicide bombers, within minutes of each other.
July 2002: A Bashkirian Airlines Tu-154 flying to Barcelona, Spain,
from Ufa, Russia, collides with a cargo plane over Germany, killing
71, including 52 children.
October 2001: A Tu-154 from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Novosibirsk, Russia,
explodes and plunges into the Black Sea, killing 78 people, most of
them Israeli citizens. It was later determined that the plane was
hit by a Ukrainian missile during military training exercises.
July 2001: A Tu-154 crashes in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing
all 143 on board.
December 1997: A Tajikistan Tu-154 crashes in the United Arab Emirates,
killing 85 passengers and crew.
March 1997: Fifty passengers and crew die when the tail of their An-24
charter plane from Stavropol, Russia, breaks off mid-flight while en
route to Trabzon, Turkey.
August 1996: A Tu-154 passenger plane carrying Russian and Ukrainian
miners and their families to work on Norway’s Arctic island of
Spitzbergen crashes into a mountain, killing all 143 on board.