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The Tu-154 was developed to meet Aeroflot's requirement to replace the jet-powered Tu-104 and the Antonov An-10 and Ilyushin Il-18 turboprops.The requirements called for either a payload capacity of 16–18 t (35,000–40,000 lb) with a range of 2,850–4,000 km (1,540–2,160 nmi) while cruising at 900 km/h (490 kn), or a payload of 5.8 t (13,000 lb) with a range of 5,800–7,000 km (3,100 ...
Flight 130 took off from Irkutsk International Airport at 11:59 local time. The Tupolev Tu-154 was operated by a crew of nine, including Captain Gennadiy S. Padukov (with over 16,000 hours' flight time), first officer A. G. Zhavoronkov (over 14,000 hours), navigator V. I. Molnar, flight engineer Ilya Petrovich Karpov (over 13,000 hours), purser O. V. Likhodyevsky, and four flight attendants.
Aeroflot Flight 5143, a scheduled Tupolev Tu-154 passenger flight, was involved in an aviation accident on July 10, 1985, when it crashed due to a high attitude stall in the Kyzylkum Desert, near the city of Uchkuduk, which had resulted in the deaths of all of the 200 occupants onboard the flight; making it the deadliest accident in the Soviet Union and Uzbekistan, and the deadliest crash of ...
Tu-194 (I): proposed shortened variant of the Tu-154, 1973; Tu-194 (II): lengthened version of Tu-184; Tu-202: anti-submarine aircraft project; Tu-206: a Tu-204 converted into a testbed for alternative fuels; Tu-216: a Tu-204 converted into a testbed for cryogenic fuel; Tu-230 (also known as Tu-260): hypersonic attack aircraft project, 1983
It was dark and there was a low overcast with a cloud base of around 400 feet (120 m) when the Tupolev Tu-154 began its approach to Noril'sk Airport. The aircraft was about 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) above its calculated weight and its center of gravity was beyond the forward limit for the type. The nose heavy condition caused Flight 3603 to ...
Aeroflot Flight 141 was an international flight from Moscow to Prague. On 19 February 1973, the Tupolev Tu-154 crashed 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi; 0.81 nmi) short of runway 25 (now runway 24) of Prague Ruzyně Airport (now Václav Havel Airport Prague).
The aircraft was a Tu-154A registered LZ-BTN and had its first flight in 1974. [3] It was one of six Tu-154s to be leased by Libyan Arab Airlines from Balkan Bulgarian Airlines for that year's pilgrim flights to Mecca for the Hajj .
Ultimately, Tu-154M powered by D-30KU-154 was the backbone of the civil aviation industry in the Soviets till the end of the 20th century. The D-30KU-154 engine was developed with a maximum thrust of 10,500 kgf specifically to power the Tu-154. Development started in 1979. Pavel Solovyov used the D-30KU core as a starting point.