Aeroflot accidents and incidents in the 1970s


, the Soviet Union's national carrier, experienced a number of serious accidents and incidents during the 1970s. The airline's worst accident during the decade took place in, when two Tupolev Tu-134s were involved in a mid-air collision over the Ukrainian city then named Dniprodzerzhinsk, with the loss of 178 lives. Including this event, there were nine deadly incidents with more than 100 fatalities, while the total recorded number of casualties was 3,541 for the decade.
Almost all of the events shown below occurred within the Soviet Union. The company was reluctant to publicise deadly accidents at the time and tended to admit only those that took place beyond the borders of the Soviet Union or ones in which foreigners were included in the list of fatalities. The airline's policy of suppressing of information on accidents during this period means that casualty figures are likely to be higher than shown in the published record, as the fate of the occupants aboard many aircraft that were written off was not publicly disclosed.
The Antonov An-10, which entered the fleet in 1957, was withdrawn from service following an accident that occurred in and killed all 122 people on board. In the decade, the company lost six aircraft of the type. Aeroflot also retired the Tu-124 following a 1979 accident that killed all 63 on board. The company lost seven aircraft of the type in the decade. Other types lost in accidents/incidents were 169 Antonov An-2s, 18 Antonov An-12s, two Antonov An-22s, 31 Antonov An-24s, three Antonov An-26s, three Avia 14s, one Beriev Be-30, 13 Ilyushin Il-14s, 19 Ilyushin Il-18s, two Ilyushin Il-62s, two Let L-410 Turbolets, six Lisunov Li-2s, 16 Tupolev Tu-104s, seven Tupolev Tu-134s, six Tupolev Tu-154s, and 27 Yakovlev Yak-40s. This totals to 338 aircraft lost in this decade.

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