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PJSC Aeroflot – Russian Airlines (Russian: ПАО «Аэрофло́т — Росси́йские авиали́нии», PAO Aeroflot — Rossiyskiye avialinii), commonly known as Aeroflot (English: / ˈ ɛər oʊ ˌ f l ɒ t / or / ˌ ɛər oʊ ˈ f l ɒ t / ⓘ; Russian: Аэрофлот, transl. "air fleet", pronounced [ɐɛrɐˈfɫot]), is the flag carrier [8] [9] and the largest ...
The flight engineer, Malinin, extended the gears, but they forgot to activate the landing gear circuit breaker before. [1] Malinin violated the rules and did not realize the landing gears were still up. [3] At 20:09, Flight 521 landed at Runway 30R with the landing gears still retracted. The Il-86 skid for a few dozen metres before coming to a ...
The aircraft was operating a Stalingrad (now Volgograd)-Moscow mail flight. After takeoff, the aircraft entered clouds and continued northwest. After flying some 350 km (220 mi) at 4,000 m (13,000 ft) in clouds, the aircraft entered a high-speed (750–800 km/h (470–500 mph)) uncontrolled descent and crashed in a field.
Aeroflot Flight 207, an Il-14P (CCCP-91571), struck the slope of Mount Rech (near Tkvarcheli) after the crew deviated from the flight route, killing all 31 on board. 20 July 1960 Aeroflot Flight 613, an Il-14M (CCCP-61696), crashed 63 mi from Syktyvkar after it broke up in mid-air due to severe turbulence in a thunderstorm, killing all 23 on board.
On September 3, 1970, a Yakovlev Yak-40, operating Aeroflot Flight Sh-4, collided with Mount Airy-Tash in the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. The crash resulted in 21 fatalities and was the first fatal accident and hull loss of a Yak-40.
Aeroflot Flight 145 was an aviation accident that occurred on 29 January 1970, near Murmansk, involving a Tu-124V aircraft operated by Aeroflot. The flight, from Leningrad to Murmansk, crashed, resulting in 11 fatalities.
Aeroflot Flight 136 was an aviation disaster involving an Ilyushin Il-12P passenger aircraft operated by Aeroflot, which occurred on Thursday 28 October 1954 in Krasnoyarsk Krai, on the slope of Mount Sivukha. The crash resulted in the deaths of 19 people (unofficially 20).
In March 1970, Aeroflot had amassed a route network that was 600,000 kilometres (370,000 miles) long, a quarter of which covered international destinations. At this time, the carrier had agreements with 59 countries but it only served 54 of them, including 55 destinations.