- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | August 28, 1993 |
Time: | 1045 |
Location: | Khorag, Tajikistan |
Operator: | Tajikistan Airlines |
Flight #: | ? |
Route: | Khorag - Dushanbe |
AC Type: | Yakovlev YAK-40 |
Registration: | CCCP-87995 |
cn / ln: | 9541944 |
Aboard: | 86 (passengers:81 crew:5) |
Fatalities: | 82 (passengers:77 crew:5) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | While taking off, the aircraft, overloaded by 3 times the number of people the plane was designed for, never got airborne, overran the runway and crashed into the Pyanj river. The crew was coerced into taking off by armed men who commandeered the plane. |
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