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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.