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ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date:
December 11, 1988
Time:
?
Location:
Leninakan, Armenia, USSR
Operator:
Military - Russian Air Force / Military - Russian Air Force
Flight #:
?
Route:
?
AC Type:
Ilyushin IL-76 / Mi-8 (helicopter)
Registration:
CCCP-86732
cn / ln:
083413388
Aboard:
83 (passengers:74 crew:9)
Fatalities:
77 (passengers:68 crew:9)
Ground:
0
Summary:
A midair collision occurred between a soviet transport on an earthquake relief mission and a military Mi-8 helicopter. As the transport approached for a landing in the darkness it struck the helicocopter. Seventy-seven of 78 aboard the transport were killed. All five aboard the Mi-8 survived. The crew had used an incorrect altimeter setting.