Accidents and Incidents
A total of 13 Tu-124s were written off in crashes during the type's operational career, and two aircraft of Iraqi Airways were destroyed on the ground during the Gulf War
| Date | Tail number | Crash Site | Casualties | Brief description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 1963 | USSR 45021 | USSR Leningrad | 0/52 | ditched in the Neva river in Leningrad after it ran out of fuel. The crew were distracted by problems with the landing gear. All occupants of the aircraft survived the ditching. |
| 8 March 1965 | USSR 45028 | USSR Kuibyshev | 25/25 | crashed shortly after taking off from Kuybyshev Airport, Russia on a flight to Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport, after the pilots lost control of the aircraft. The accident killed all 17 passengers and eight crew on board. |
| 11 November 1965 | USSR 45086 | USSR Murmansk | 32/NA | failed landing |
| 7 March 1968 | USSR 45019 | USSR Volgograd | 1/NA | bad weather |
| 29 January 1970 | USSR 45083 | USSR Murmansk | 11/NA | crashed in mountain while landing: several survivors died of hypothemia while waiting for rescue |
| 18 August 1970 | Czechoslovakia OK-TEB | Swiss Zurich | 0/20 | pilot forgot to lower landing gear |
| 2 September 1970 | USSR 45012 | USSR Dnepropetrovsk | 37/37 | unknown |
| 9 July 1970 | USSR 45062 | USSR Kuibyshev | 2/61 | lost power on takeoff |
| 21 November 1973 | USSR 45031 | USSR Kazan | 0/NA | overran runway |
| 16 December 1973 | USSR 45061 | USSR Moscow | 51/51 | rudder failure pushed plane into dive |
| 23 December 1973 | USSR }45044 | USSR Lviv | 17/17 | left engine caught fire in flight |
| 3 January 1976 | USSR 45037 | USSR Moscow | 61/61 | instrument failure in clouds; crew lost orientation |
| 5 November 1977 | India V643 | India Jorhat Airport | 5/10 | one of the three Tu-124K VIP variants purchased by the Indian Air Force in 1966, named Pushpak Rath (Floral Chariot), crashed in a paddy field near Jorhat Airport, Assam. The then Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai who was on board survived, though five crew members died as a result of the crash. |
| 29 August 1979 | USSR 45038 | USSR Kirsanov | 63/63 | flap failure on landing |
| February 1991 | Iraq YI-AEY | Iraq Bagdhad | 0/0 | destroyed on ground in Gulf War |
| February 1991 | Iraq YI-AEL | Iraq Bagdhad | 0/0 | destroyed on ground in Gulf War |
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