On Monday , March 8, 1965, the Tu-124V of the Aeroflot company crashed near Kuibyshev , performing flight 513 ( Kuibyshev - Rostov-on-Don - Sochi ), killing 30 people.
| Flight 513 Aeroflot | |
|---|---|
 Tu-124V company Aeroflot | |
| General information | |
| date | March 8, 1965 |
| Time | 11:35 |
| Cause | artificial horizon failure |
| A place |  near the airport Kurumoch ( Kuibyshev region , RSFSR , USSR ) |
| Dead | |
| Aircraft | |
| Model | Tu-124V |
| Airline |  Aeroflot (Volga UGA, 1st Kuybyshevsky JSC ) |
| Departure point | Kurumoch ( Kuibyshev ) |
| Stops on the way | Rostov-on-Don |
| Destination | Sochi |
| Flight | 513 |
| Board number | USSR-45028 |
| Date of issue | July 31, 1962 |
| Passengers | thirty |
| Crew | 9 |
| Dead | thirty |
| Survivors | 9 |
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Airplane and crew
The Tu-124V with the tail number USSR-45028 (factory - 2350803, serial - 08-03) was released by KSAMC on July 31, 1962 and had a cabin capacity of 44 passengers. On December 22 of the same year, the aircraft arrived at the General Directorate of the civil air fleet , where it was first operated at MUTA, and then at the Main Directorate of the MIF. In the Volga Department of the Civil Air Fleet, the Tu-124 was transferred on December 26, 1964 , and in total at the time of the disaster had a total of 1,612 flight hours and 1151 landings.
The crew of 173 flight crews piloted the aircraft on this flight: [1]
- FAC - Ivan Kostin
- FAC trainee - Victor Syulin
- checking - deputy commander of the squadron Pavel Savelyev
- the co-pilot - Viktor Kiryakov
- radio operator - Yevgeny Ivanov
- Mechanic - Alexander Danilov
- navigator - Leonid Gostev
Flight attendants Zoya Chicherina-Migay and Tamara Kolesnikova worked in the cabin. Total on board the aircraft were 30 passengers.
Catastrophe
In order to clear snow and ice, the Tu-124 was doused with hot water. A FAC trainee was sitting in his cabin in the left seat, and an examiner was sitting in the right seat. As for the commander and co-pilot, they were sitting in the cabin.
At 11:34 am local time, the airliner took off from the runway at a magnetic course of 100 °. But as soon as he climbed to a height of 40-50 meters, as after cleaning the wing mechanization, an increase in the angle of ascent occurred, and a right list appeared. In the engines there was a flameout and they stopped. Lost traction and lift, the plane crashed at 11:35 with the left wing and then with the fuselage into a snow-covered field 2300 meters from the center of the strip and to the right of its axis. There was no fire.
25 people died directly from the impact on the ground: 16 passengers and all 9 crew members. Later from wounds 5 more passengers died.
Reasons to
Based on the results of consideration of various options, including engine failure and elevator failure, the commission concluded that the artificial horizon was malfunctioning. The exact reason for this was not revealed, there are only two main versions:
- the trainee turned them on late and they did not have time to go to work
- failure of the right artificial horizon of the old model, probably due to the ingress of water when dousing the plane
Another probable factor could be the trainee’s lack of the necessary skills for piloting during takeoff under adverse weather conditions (weather at the time of the disaster: haze, visibility 1200 meters, side wind 5 m / s).
Notes
- ↑ Plane crash of Tu-124V in Kuibyshev. 1965 . avia.pro. The date of appeal is December 26, 2017.
Links
- Accident of Tu-124V of the Volga UGA in Kuybyshev . airdisaster.ru. The date of circulation is March 30, 2013. Archived April 10, 2013.
- Tupolev Tu-124 Onboard №: CCCP-45028 . Russianplanes.net. The date of circulation is March 30, 2013. Archived April 10, 2013.