Aeroflot Flight 7841
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Description
Aeroflot Flight 7841 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Minsk in Soviet Byelorussia, to Leningrad, operated by a Tupolev Tu-134A on 1 February 1985, which suffered a double engine failure immediately after take off. The pilots were unable to return to Minsk, and instead made a forced landing into a forest, resulting in the deaths of fifty eight of the eighty people on board. Twenty-two people survived the accident. The double engine failure was brought on by ice ingestion.
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