Aerofloat-Nord Flight 821 crash kills 88 (Boeing 737-500)

A passenger jet caught fire early Sunday, exploded and crashed into railway tracks in the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 people on board.

The exact cause of the pre-dawn crash is under investigation, but government spokesman Vladimir Markin said "a technical breakdown" was a likely cause.

Markin said in televised remarks that the failure of one of the Boeing 737-500's two engines may have caused the plane to come down, The Associated Press reported.

But Aeroflot is considered one of the safer airlines in the region. Sunday's crash is the first fatal accident for the airline since 1994, when a Russian pilot handed control of an Airbus to his 15-year-old son. It crashed, killing all 75 people on board. Courtesy: CNN

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[bjorneols]

The title of the post is incorrect. The crash was nowhere near Sheremetyevo airport. Sheremetyevo is a Moscow airport, but the crash was in the city of Perm which is almost a thousand miles from Moscow.

[CaptainFaisal]

Thanks for the comment! I'll research it again and change it!

[bjorneols]

That's 14 years ago, and Aeroflot had no fatalities since then, until this crash. So their safety record is actually pretty good. But I guess people will keep bashing them for old sins for the next 100 years or so, instead of recognizing that it's actually a completely normal airlina by international standards. (There are other russian airlines, though, that would deserve criticism).

[Rspzd]

It already caused a number of conspiracy theories. Due to crew's strange behavior and wide range of debris' dispersion it was concluded that the disaster could be caused by hijacking attempt. There's a large oil refinery nearby Perm airport and probably the terrorist(s) had this facility as a target.

The official version has been modified within days from engine failure to crew error. But it must be a chain of errors to lead to terrible disaster of that sort.

[Pvjinflight]

@Funfisique Boeing 737 is very safe, it have more flight hours than any other commercial jet, and more of them in air every moment than any other plane, so of course they have more crashes too. For example if you fly 8 flights with Boeing 737, and 2 flights with Il-96, its much bigger probability that accident flight happens to be in Boeing 737, and that doesnt make unsafe.

[wizzair1313]

when was this i forgot?

[Funfisique]

The Killer Boeing 737 strikes again...

[DrSlimeX]

We can't say that plane was owned by aeroflot. That plane belonged to subsidiary company of Aeroflot, called as Aeroflot-Nord. After that accident aeroflot-nord was deprived of their licence. So, we can't apply the ststistic of air crashes to Aeroflot. Still, it is the most safe company in Russia.

[katyonok]

No. Because there was a partial failure of autopilot system as well. watch "kid in the cockpit", also on youtube

[jimjabbo]

Kursk was hardly recently chap...

[Lobos222]

Only a idiot would believe anything "official" from Russia. That sort of BS didnt die out with the end of the Cold War. To take a recent example you can just look at the sinking of the Russian sub Kursk. To much, we dont need help bs, until it was too late...

The problem with the Russian media is that they are still compulsory liars. Its like there stuck in limbo between politics and pride.

[Weirdo10o4]

TRY 0, Qantas, Finnair, etc.

[TheouAegis]

Didn't anyone else laugh at the 1994 crash? The pilot let his 15 year old son pilot a populated jetliner. I thought htat was pretty funny.

[KLM777300er]

you are right, but its AEROFLOT