Aeroflot Flight 3352

Aeroflot Flight 3352
	A Tupolev Tu-154B-1, similar to the one involved in the accident, in 1982.
Accident
Date	11 October 1984
Summary	Runway incursion due to ATC error
Site	Omsk Airport, Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ; 54°58′00″N 73°18′30″E / 54.96667°N 73.30833°E
Total fatalities	178 (including 4 on the ground)
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Tupolev Tu-154B-1
Operator	Aeroflot
Registration	CCCP-85243
Flight origin	Krasnodar International Airport
Stopover	Omsk Airport
Destination	Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport
Occupants	179
Passengers	170
Crew	9
Fatalities	174
Injuries	2
Survivors	5
Ground casualties
Ground fatalities	4

Aeroflot Flight 3352 was a regularly scheduled Aeroflot flight from Krasnodar to Novosibirsk, with an intermediate landing in Omsk. While landing at Omsk Airport on Thursday, 11 October 1984, the aircraft crashed into maintenance vehicles on the runway, killing 174 people on board and four on the ground. While a chain of mistakes in airport operations contributed to the accident, its major cause was an air traffic controller falling asleep on duty. As of 2022^[update], this remains the deadliest aviation accident on Russian territory. It was also the deadliest aviation accident involving a Tupolev Tu-154 at the time until the crash of Aeroflot Flight 5143 nine months later; as of 2023, it still ranks as the second-deadliest accident involving a Tupolev Tu-154.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] The tragedy was kept secret for twenty years, until Komsomolskaya Pravda published an article in 2004.^[5]

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^ Соловова, Татьяна (9 February 2017). Сын прославленного новосибирского пилота Бориса Степанова: «Небо было его вторым домом» [The son of the famous Novosibirsk pilot Boris Stepanov: "The sky was his second home"]. NSK.kp.ru - (in Russian). Archived from the original on 30 November 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2022.

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[KP-5] Соловова, Татьяна (9 February 2017). Сын прославленного новосибирского пилота Бориса Степанова: «Небо было его вторым домом» [The son of the famous Novosibirsk pilot Boris Stepanov: "The sky was his second home"]. NSK.kp.ru - (in Russian). Archived from the original on 30 November 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2022.

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