Plane crash Yak-40 Ukrainian CAA near Kiev

• Date of the crash: 23.05.1974, the

• The time of the crash: 22: 05

• Country of the crash: the USSR

• Place the crash: Ukrainian SSR, 16 km west of the airport Kiev (Juliani)

• Type of aircraft: Yak-40

• Registration of aircraft: CCCP87579

• Name of air carrier Aeroflot (USSR)

• Division: Ukrainian CAA of Kirovohrad

• Flight: H-166 

Chronology of events: The aircraft according to eyewitnesses at low altitude flying with engines with a slight right bank and decline. After the first touchdown with the flaps and landing gear retracted, with almost zero pitch angle and roll with a small right-wing MK = 32 degree, airspeed approximately 420 km / h, a vertical rate of descent 3 m / s, partially collapsed right plane. There was a long tongue of fire. The aircraft then rolled over in a collision with the ground exploded. The plane crash took place in 22: 05 MSK.

Data on victims:

• Total on board were people 29: 4 25 crew members and passengers. Total killed 29 people: crew 4, 25 passengers.

Details of the crash:

• Phase of flight: the approach

• Identified causes of the crash: the reasons for non-standard

Data on the plane:

• aircraft Brand: Yak-40

• Aircraft ID: CCCP-87579

• Country where registered aircraft: the USSR

• Date of manufacture of the aircraft: 31.05.1972

• Serial number of the aircraft: 9221122

• Hours aircraft: 2368

• The cycles of use of the aircraft: 2068

• Engines: H H 5212024 5212027 N5212013

Flight data:

• Flight: H-166

• Tour type: Regular passenger

• The aviation company Aeroflot (USSR)

• Division: Ukrainian CAA of Kirovohrad

• The country, which was registered aviation company: USSR

• Flying from: Khmelnitsky

• Flying in: Kiev (Juliani)

• Original Location: Leningrad (Smolny)

• A final point: Kirovograd

Additional information:

Information about the crew:

• KBC Vladimir G. Kovalenko 

• copilot Vadim I. Toropenko 

• mechanic Anatoly Petrovich Kozlitin 

• Flight Valentina Burlachenko