Aeroflot Flight 7425

Aeroflot Flight 7425 on the 10 July 1985 was operated by a three-engined Tupolev Tu-154B-2 which departed Tashkent for a flight to Leningrad. The aircraft was at cruising altitude of at an airspeed of . The low airspeed close to the stall caused the aircraft to vibrate which the aircrew assumed was engine vibration. They reduced engine power to flight idle causing a drop in airspeed to . The aircrew tried to maintain altitude but the aircraft stalled and entered a flat spin crashing into the ground near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan, which at that time was in the Soviet Union.

It's the worst air disaster in history of Soviet aviation.

References

• UK CAA Document CAA 429 World Airline Accident Summary

External links

• Aviation Safety Network
• Air Disaster database record
• Plane Crash Info