Kraków 2022-11-03
Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft crashes.
The statistics for the Tu-154 aircraft are unmerciful. According to available information, 66 machines crashed on 1,015 (other sources 926) of the Tu-154 built. The production of this machine lasted until 2001. Until 2010, there were about 200 Tu-154 aircraft in the world. Mostly in the Moscow State and China.
According to the NATO code used to designate airplanes and helicopters used in CCCP, the Tu-154 is defined as "Careless" – careless, reckless, careless, careless. Therefore, it is not surprising that the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, in 2011, did not intend to fly Tupolev anymore. In Bulgaria, it was decided to withdraw not only the presidential Tupolev, but all such machines flying in this country. Bulgaria was the last country in Europe to use these aircraft.
According to the Information Radio Agency, passengers at the airport in Bordeaux (2010) did not agree to board the Tu-154. Tupolev, owned by the Egyptian airline company Cairo Aviation, made the first leg of a flight from Deauville in the north of France to Bordeaux. There, additional passengers were to board to fly to the city of Taba in Egypt. At the airport in Bordeaux, the technical condition of the aircraft was inspected by the French Directorate for Civil Aviation. It turned out that three tires were already heavily worn and had to be replaced in order for the plane to be allowed to take off again. However, when passengers learned that take-off was delayed for repairs, they rebelled and refused to board the machine. Besides, the condition of the interior of the Tu-154 was also bad. The seats were not well fixed and water was dripping from the ceiling.
List of the largest failures and disasters of the Tu-154 (only the Tu-154 M version);
May 23, 1991 – Tu-154 plane crashed during the landing approach at Pulkovo airport in Leningrad. There were 164 passengers on board. 12 people were killed, including two children. 34 people were hospitalized.
July 20, 1992 – Tu-154 plane crashed near the airport in Tbilisi. 30 people died in the accident. Among the casualties were seven crew members and six people who transported the cargo. The remaining victims were residents of Alekseeyka, on whose homes a plane fell. Possible causes of the crash are the overload of the aircraft.
February 8, 1993 – two planes collided in Tehran: the Tu-154 and the Su-24 of the Iranian Air Force. The military pilot took off without the dispatcher’s consent. 132 people died.
3 January 1994 – a Tu-154 plane fell in Irkutsk. After take-off, 30 km from RWY, the captain signaled the ignition of the engine for the first time, and then, after making the decision to return to the airport in Irkutsk, he lost control of the machine. The plane fell about 11 km from the airport, near the village of Momona. 9 crew members (including 4 flight attendants) and 111 passengers (including one child and 17 foreigners, citizens of Germany, China, Austria, India and Japan) were killed.
06/06/1994 – Chinese Tu-154 airliner crashed near the town of Xian in China. 160 people died.
December 7, 1995 – Tu-154 crashed in the Soviet Far East. 96 people died.
August 29, 1996 – during the landing at the Longiyr airport, in the Norwegian Syalbard archipelago, the Tu-154 crashed on board, which flew among others Russian miners returning from vacation. 141 passengers and crew members were killed.
December 15, 1997 – during the landing at the airport in Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), an explosion took place on the board of the Tu-154 airlines of Tajikistan. Out of 86 passengers, mostly tourists from Tajikistan, only one survived.
August 31, 1998 – during the take-off from the airport in the capital of Ecuador, Quito, the Tu-154 of the Cuban airline Cubana de Ayison crashed. 70 people died in the crash.
February 24, 1999 – in China, as a result of the Tu-154 crash, belonging to Chinese regional airlines, 64 people died. The plane exploded in the air.
3 July 2001 – near Irkutsk, about five kilometers from the village of Burdakoyka, 20 km from the airport, a Tu-154 flying on the route Yekaterinburg-lrkurck-Vladivostok crashed. There were 136 people on board, including six children and 9 crew members.
October 4, 2001 – in Novorossiysk, as a result of an explosion, it crashed and fell into the Black Sea, about 185 km from Sochi, a passenger Tu-154. The plane made a flight on the route: Tel Aviv – Novosibirsk. 78 people were killed, including 51 Israeli citizens. According to the findings of the State Commission to investigate the causes of the accident, the plane was shot down by a C-200 missile, launched during an exercise in the Defense of Ukraine. It was a loud disaster.
October 25, 2001 – Tu-154 landed in emergency in the city of Norilsk. There were no casualties during an emergency landing.
February 12, 2002 – 117 people died in the Tu-154 crash in Iran. The plane crashed in the province of Lorestan, 400 km southwest of Tehran.
February 24, 2002 – the Tu-154 aircraft with over a hundred passengers on board emergency landed at the airport in Krasnoyarsk.
1 July 2002 – at night in Europe near Lake Constance, at an altitude of 12,000 m, the Russian Tu-154 aircraft and the DHL Boeing-757 transport aircraft crashed. There were 12 crew members and 57 passengers on board the Tu-154, more than half of them are children. There were two pilots on board the Boeing. They all died. The main cause was an error in the flight controller. A loud case, and additionally lynch on the controller.
On July 15, 2002 – in Surgut, an emergency landing of the Tu-154 aircraft took place on the Surgut-Kyiv flight route. The cause of an emergency landing was the lack of a functional right landing gear. There were 55 passengers and nine crew members on board.
July 30, 2002 – at the airport of Rainbow Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, the crew of the Tu-154 aircraft with 150 passengers on board attempted an emergency landing. During the landing of the plane, one of the engines failed. None of the passengers and crew were injured.
31.07.2002 – one of the aircraft’s engines was damaged during take-off from the airport in Irkutsk. The pilot decided to return to the airport in Irkutsk. The emergency landing was successful. Nobody was injured.
August 16, 2002 – Tu-154 made an emergency landing at the Novosibirsk Tolmacheyo airport. On board the ship, owned by the Siberian airline, there were 135 passengers and 10 crew members. Nobody was hurt.
August 25, 2002 – Tu-154 emergency landing took place in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. There were 163 passengers (29 of them children) and 8 crew members on board. There were no casualties.
September 4, 2002 – Tu-154 landed in emergency at the airport in Surgut. There were 82 passengers and 10 crew members on board. Nobody was injured.
8 September 2002 – a Tu-154 plane crashed at the airport in Novosibirsk. He flew from Novosibirsk, Russia to St. Petersburg.
September 16, 2002 – a Tu-154 airliner landed in an emergency at the airport in Novosibirsk. There were 160 passengers and 10 crew members on board the plane. Nobody was injured.
November 26, 2002 – Tu-154 plane, which was flying from Novosibirsk to Yakutsk, forcibly landed at the airport in Novosibirsk Tolmacheyo. For more than two hours, the plane circled the city to burn off fuel. Landing was successful. None of the 69 passengers and 11 crew on board were injured.
02/2/2002 – Tu-154, Ural Airlines plane to Yekaterinburg crash-landed in St. Petersburg. There were no casualties.February 12, 2003 – Tu-154 landed in an emergency in St. Petersburg, one of the engines refused to obey in the air. There were about 150 people on board, including 10 crew members.
February 19, 2003 – at the airport in Novosibirsk Tolmacheyo an emergency landing of the Tu-154 passenger plane belonging to the Siberia airline took place. The plane landed safely.
6.03.2003 – Tu-154 made an emergency landing at the airport in Yakutsk due to technical malfunction. There were no injured people.
March 27, 2003 – Tu-154 crashed at the airport in Vladivostok. The plane landed safely. None of the passengers and crew were injured.
April 5, 2003 – Tu-154 Sibir Airlines with 133 passengers on board an emergency landing at the airport in Nizhny Novgorod. The plane skidded during landing.
August 27, 2003 – a Tu-154 skidded at the airport in Lrkutsk. There were 9 crew members and 138 passengers on board the plane. Nobody was injured.
4.09.2003 – An emergency landing of a passenger plane Tu-154 belonging to the Kogalymayia airline was carried out at the Moscow Surgut airport. The reason was a failure of one of the engines. There were 9 crew members and 70 passengers on board. Nobody was injured.
December 17, 2003 – a Tu-154 passenger plane crashed at the airport in Almaty (Kazakhstan) at night. The reason was a faulty front landing gear. There were 106 passengers on board. Nobody was injured.
24.08.2004 – a passenger plane Tu-154 SibirAirlines exploded in the air in the Rostoy region, flying on the Moscow-Sochi route. Presumably, a suicide terrorist attack was committed on board. They all died.
9 July 2006 – in Irkutsk the Tu-154 airliner flying on the route: Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Ekaterinburg crashed with 139 people on board. Nobody was injured.
August 22, 2006 – the Russian Tu-154 crashed in eastern Ukraine. The plane was falling from a very great height.
Polish Tu-154 "warned" earlier.
Former Senate Marshal Alicja Grześkowiak had an unpleasant episode with government planes. In 1999, the Tu-154 M accidentally landed in the desert of Saudi Arabia.
In 2004, the governmental Tu-154 M, which was used by Prime Minister Marek Belka, had problems at the airport in Chinese Kunming. The starting unit of one of the engines had a defect, from which clouds of smoke began to come out. Another plane was chartered to continue the journey.
In 2005, President Aleksander Kwasniewski and a delegation had to wait in Vienna for a second plane to be sent from Poland when the batteries in the Tu-154 M failed.
In 2005, a major malfunction required technicians to be brought to Kabul, where the Minister of National Defense was on an official visit.
In June 2007, the delegation to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Narvik returned on transport planes sent after the failure of the government Tu-154 M.
In March 2008, President Lech Kaczyński, on an official visit to Hungary, went on a chartered plane, as both Tu-154s were under repair.
In December 2008, the plane on which the President was traveling in the Middle East had trouble controlling the flaps. This fault was also found on the ground. The President flew from Mongolia to Japan on a chartered plane several hours late.
In January 2010, a failure of the presidential control system Tupolev Tu-154 M nb 101 found on the ground delayed the departure of Polish rescuers from Haiti to Poland. The problem, however, is serious, because it took place after the famous, last, general renovation in Russia.
Written by Karol Placha Hetman