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Founded in 1923, Aeroflot, the flag carrier and largest airline of Russia (formerly the Soviet Union), has had a high number of fatal crashes, with a total of 8,231 passengers dying in Aeroflot crashes according to the Aircraft Crashes Record Office, mostly during the Soviet era, about five times more than any other airline.
Aeroflot Flight 593 was a passenger flight from Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russia, to Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong. On 23 March 1994, the aircraft operating the route, an Airbus A310-304 flown by Aeroflot, crashed into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range in Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 63 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
May 6, 2019 · Dramatic video shows passengers using emergency exit slides to escape the burning Aeroflot aircraft. Survivors suggest the plane was struck by lightning, but Russia's national carrier said only...
May 6, 2019 · Russian authorities have said that 41 people have died in an Aeroflot plane crash at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday evening. The Aeroflot airliner was on route to the northern city...
Mar 23, 2024 · How a child’s cockpit visit caused the loss of Aeroflot Flight 593 while en route from Moscow to Hong Kong, killing all 75 passengers and crew onboard.
Apr 15, 2020 · A total of 41 people were killed on May 5, 2019, when Aeroflot Flight 1492, bound for Murmansk, was forced to return to Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport after the reported lightning strike.
May 6, 2019 · Reports of the strike came as survivors told how they escaped the Aeroflot jet which burst into flames on landing at Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday.
May 6, 2019 · Forty-one people died after a Russian plane made an emergency landing and burst into flames just after takeoff from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. Dramatic video shows passengers using emergency ...
May 6, 2019 · The Aeroflot flight took off from Moscow on Sunday evening bound for Murmansk, a port city in northern Russia. Pilots signaled distress soon after takeoff, the news agency Interfax reported, and...
May 6, 2019 · Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the crash of an Aeroflot jet that killed 41 passengers on Sunday at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.
