Aeroflot Flight 4225

Aeroflot Flight 4227
Accident
Date	7 July 1980
Site	Almaty, Kazakhstan
Operator	Aeroflot
Registration	CCCP-85355
Flight origin	Almaty International Airport
Destination	Simferopol Airport
Passengers	153
Crew	10
Fatalities	164 (1 on ground)
Injuries	none
Survivors	0

Aeroflot Flight 4227 was a Tupolev Tu-154B-2 that was a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Alma-Ata Airport in Soviet Kazakhstan to Simferopol Airport in Soviet Ukraine on July 7, 1980. The aircraft reached an altitude of no more than 500 feet when the airspeed suddenly dropped because of thermal currents it encountered during the climb out, causing the airplane to stall before traveling 5 km (3.1 mi) away, crash and catch fire.^[1]

The accident

At the time of the accident Almaty was experiencing a heat wave. It was around 00:39 and flight 4227 took off from Alma-Ata Airport in Soviet Kazakhstan.^[1] Only a few seconds after take off, the flight, with 156 passengers and 10 crew members, reached 500 feet. The weather was not on their side; the plane reached a zone of hot air and then the Russian aircraft's airspeed dramatically dropped and the plane was caught in a big downdraft. The Tupolev stalled and plummeted, nose down, into a farm near the suburbs of Alma-Ata. It slid into a ravine, caught fire and disintegrated, killing all 163 and one on the ground.

Investigation

The soviet aviation board concluded that the crash was a result of Windshear, which caused a startling loss of airspeed, which then caused the Tupolev to stall and then entered a nose dive before crashing.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev 154B-2 CCCP-85355 Alma-Ata Airport (ALA)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 25 January 2012.

Aeroflot Flight 4225

The accident

Investigation

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