| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | May 19, 1978 |
| Time: | 1332 |
| Location: | Pochinok, Russia |
| Operator: | Aeroflot |
| Flight #: | 6709 |
| Route: | Baku - Leningrad |
| AC Type: | Tupolev TU-154B |
| Registration: | CCCP-85169 |
| cn / ln: | 76A-169 |
| Aboard: | 134 (passengers:126 crew:8) |
| Fatalities: | 4 (passengers:4 crew:0) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The flight engineer accidentally shut off the automatic transferring of fuel from the sump tank. Eventually all three engines stopped and the plane crashed. Fuel starvation. |
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