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Aeroflot Flight 7841
Aeroflot Flight 7841 was a scheduled Soviet domestic passenger flight from Minsk to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), which crashed on 1 February 1985 killing fifty eight people on board. Twenty-two people (including three crew members) survived the accident. The crash was caused by engine failure brought on by ice ingestion. On 8 May 1985 the Tupolev Tu-134A was officially written off.
Aircraft.
The Tupolev Tu-134A, registration number CCCP-65910, serial number 63969, involved in the accident was manufactured on 11
aircraft is a Boeing 767.
- Aeroflot Flight 7841 crashes shortly after takeoff, killing 58 people on board.
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