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Date Tuesday 8 July 1980
Time 00:39
Type Silhouette image of generic T154 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Tupolev Tu-154B-2
Operator Aeroflot, Kazakstan Civil Aviation Directorate
Registration CCCP-85355
MSN 79A355
Year of manufature 1979
Engines Kuznetsov NK-8-2U
Crew Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10
Passengers Fatalities: 156 / Occupants: 156
Total occupants Fatalities: 166 / Occupants: 166
Aircraft damage Destroyed, written off
Aircraft fate w/o
Location 5 km from Alma-Ata Airport (ALA)   Kazakhstan
Phase En route
Nature Passenger - Scheduled
Departure Airport Alma-Ata Airport (ALA/UAAA)
Destination Airport Rostov Airport (ROV/URRR)
Narrative Two minutes after takeoff from Alma-Ata, at a height of 120-150 m, the plane entered a zone of high air temperature (30-40 deg C) where the airspeed dropped because of the wind. Then the plane was caught in a downdraft and stalled. It descended nose down until it struck a farm and crashed on a wheat field near the suburbs of Alma-Ata. The Tu-154 disintegrated and caught fire, slid through a field and fell into a ravine.
The airplane operated on a flight to Rostov Airport (ROV) and Simferopol Airport (SIP).

sources

airdisaster.ru
Soviet Transports