Accidents and Incidents
Some 69 Tu-134 have been destroyed in accidents and wars, of which 35 were non-fatal incidents (in one of the remaining 34 fatal incidents no one on the plane died).
| Date | Tail number | Crash Site | Casualties | Brief description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 January 1966 | СССР-45076 | Near Chkalovsky Airport | 8/8 | Crash of second prototype in flight testing. |
| 23 May 1971 | YU-AHZ | near Rijeka, Croatia | 78/83 | Aviogenex Tupolev Tu-134 crashed on approach to Rijeka Airport located on the island of Krk, rough landing in bad weather conditions. |
| 16 September 1971 | HA-LBD | Kiev, Ukraine | 49/49 | Malev Airlines Flight 110 crashed near Boryspil International Airport, Kiev in bad weather, following two missed approaches, after a generator failure caused the crew to switch to batteries. |
| 30 June 1974 | СССР-65668 | Amman | 7+2/84 | Failed takeoff, crashed into buildings. |
| 9 January 1976 | DM-SCD | Leipzig | 27/34 | Pilot failed to check rate of descent, crashed on landing. Later sentenced to 5 years in prison for negligence. Other crewmembers sentenced to three years. |
| 10 July 1977 | CCCP-65639 | Helsinki (hijacking) | 0/74 | A scheduled flight from Petrozavodsk to Leningrad was hijacked by Gennadi Sheludko and Alexandr Zagirnyak who tried to divert it to Sweden, but the plane landed in Helsinki instead. The hijackers surrendered the next day and were extradited to the Soviet Union. |
| 16 March 1978 | LZ-TUB | Near Sofia, Bulgaria | 73/73 | Balkan Bulgarian Airlines flight crashed on climb out from Sofia Airport near the village of Gabare, Bulgaria. |
| 22 May 1979 | 65301 | Near Liepāja | 4/5 | Overloaded plane failed landing in poor weather |
| 11 August 1979 | СССР-65816, СССР-65735 | Near Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine | 96/96 + 84/84 | Two Aeroflot Tu-134s collided near Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine. |
| 17 June 1982 | CCCP-65687 | Severomorsk, Russia | 18/19 | A test aircraft operated by the Soviet government crashed during landing. The pilot had ignored warnings that he was descending too fast, collided with radio tower |
| 30 August 1983 | CCCP-65129 | Alma-Ata | 90/90 | Pilot ignored altimeter, crashed on landing |
| 18 November 1983 | CCCP-65807 | Tbilisi | 8/NA | Failed hijacking: plane destroyed when commandos stormed cockpit. |
| 10 January 1984 | LZ-TUR | Sofia, Bulgaria | 50/50 | Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashed on approach to Sofia Airport. |
| 1 February 1985 | CCCP-65910 | Minsk, Belarus | 58/80 | The crew failed to de-ice the wings before takeoff, causing a crash. |
| 3 May 1985 | CCCP-65856 | near Lviv | 15+ 79/79 | Mid-air collision with military An-24 |
| 2 July 1986 | CCCP-65120 | Syktyvkar, Russia | 54/94 | An uncontrolled fire in the rear cargo hold led to a crash. |
| 19 October 1986 | C9-CAA | Mbuzini, South Africa | 34/44 | Mozambican Presidential Jet crashed on approach during a thunderstorm due to failure of the ground proximity warning system. |
| 20 October 1986 | CCCP-65766 | Kuybyshev, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia | 70/94 | A very hard landing caused the landing gear to collapse and the aircraft to break into several pieces. Pilot sentenced to six years in prison. |
| 12 December 1986 | CCCP-65795 | Berlin, East Germany | 72/82 | After being cleared to land on runway 25L at Berlin Schönefeld Airport, the Aeroflot flight from Minsk proceeded to approach runway 25R which was closed for construction. While attempting to switch to the correct runway, the aircraft struck trees and crashed. |
| 27 February 1988 | CCCP-65675 | Surgut, Russia | 20/51 | Crew error while transitioning from ILS approach to visual landing resulted in the aircraft crashing to the right of the runway. |
| 9 September 1988 | VN-A102 | Bangkok, Thailand | 76/90 | Vietnam Airlines Flight 831 crashed while attempting ILS approach in poor weather when the captain failed to execute a missed approach at the decision altitude. |
| 13 January 1990 | CCCP-65951 | Pervouralsk, Russia | 27/72 | A fire in the cargo hold resulted in an emergency landing. |
| 27 August 1992 | CCCP-65058 | Ivanovo, Russia | 84/84 | Crashed short of the runway while attempting ILS approach. |
| 21 September 1993 | CCCP-65893 | Sukhumi, Georgia | 27/27 | In September 1993, three Transair Georgia aircraft were shot down in Abkhazia. |
| 9 September 1994 | CCCP-65976 | Zhukovsky, Russia | 7/7 | Mid-air collision with Tu-25M bomber during training flight |
| 24 June 1995 | CCCP-65617 | Lagos,Nigeria | 16/80 | Overran runway in rainstorm |
| 5 December 1995 | 4K-65703 | Nakhichevan, Azerbaijan | 44/82 | A maintenance error led to a double engine failure when the aircraft was taking off, causing the crash. |
| 3 September 1997 | VN-A120 | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | 65/66 | Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 descended below its approach path on a non-precision approach. Despite warnings from the other crew members that the craft was too low, the captain continued the approach, resulting in the crash. |
| 24 August 2004 | RA-65080 | Buchalki, Russia | 44/44 | Forty-one minutes after taking off from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, the aircraft disappeared from radar. Witnesses reported seeing an explosion in the sky, and wreckage was located shortly thereafter. Later investigation revealed that the aircraft had been destroyed by terrorist bomber, along with Tu-154 airliner on the same day. |
| 17 March 2007 | RA-65021 | Samara, Russia | 6/57 | A UTair Tu-134 crashed about 400 metres short of the runway in poor weather due to air traffic control error. The aircraft then bounced and inverted. |
| 20 June 2011 | RA-65691 | Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia | 47/52 | After technical problems trying to land in heavy fog, and unable to reach Petrozavodsk Airport, RusAir Flight 9605 tried to land on a road 2 km from the airport at 1955 UTC (2355 MSD). The plane flipped and caught fire as it struck the ground. There is speculation that the pilot may have mistaken the motorway for the runway |
| 28 December 2011 | EX-020 | Osh, Kyrgyzstan | 0/79 | This plane belonged to the Kyrgyzstan Air Company. A hard landing in marginal weather conditions led one wing to shear off. The aircraft went off the runway where it turned over on one of its sides. A fire then started with no casualties. |
Source: Aircraft Accident Database
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