Aeroflot Flight 6502
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Description
Aeroflot Flight 6502 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight operated by a Tupolev Tu-134A from Sverdlovsk to Grozny via Kuibyshev, which crashed in Kuibyshev on 20 October 1986. Seventy of the 94 passengers and crew on board were killed when the plane overran the runway, after the pilot made a bet that he could make an instrument-only approach with curtained cockpit windows. Investigators determined the cause of the accident was pilot negligence.
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