Baikal Airlines Flight 130
Tupolev Tu-154M · Uncontained engine failure, in-flight fire
From Irkutsk International Airport (IKT) to Domodedovo International Airport (DME)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 125 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 1
- Occupants
- 124
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 1 · all on the ground
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Tupolev Tu-154M
- Flight
- X3130
- Aircraft type
- Tupolev TU-154
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- RA-85656
- Operator
- Baikal Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 124
- Route
- From Irkutsk International Airport (IKT)To Domodedovo International Airport (DME)
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft power plant
- Aircraft › Aircraft systems
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Mamony, Irkutsk Oblast, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
Baikal Airlines Flight 130 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Irkutsk to Moscow operated by a Baikal Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 that crashed onto a dairy farm on 3 January 1994 in Mamony whilst the pilots were trying to return to the airport following a mid-air emergency. All 124 people on board were killed. Another person was killed on the ground.
With 125 deaths, it remains as the deadliest crash in Russia during the 1990s.
The investigation conducted by Russian MAK concluded that the crash was caused by loss of control due to an in-flight fire. One of the Tupolev Tu-154's engine starters failed in mid-flight and broke apart. The failure inflicted damages on the oil lines and hydraulic lines around the engine, igniting uncontrollable flames. The flight crew attempted to return to the airport, but due to the damaged hydraulic lines they could not control the aircraft and it crashed onto the farm.
Crash
With the absence of hydraulics, the crew tried to maintain the level of hydraulics by whatever means possible, but their efforts failed when the hydraulics ran out. First Officer Zhavoronkov then told the crew that the aircraft was uncontrollable. The aircraft kept descending, gaining speed tremendously and slightly banked to the right. The pilots desperately tried to raise the nose.
Local residents reported loud rumbling sounds coming from the sky. A tractor driver on the farm saw the aircraft coming towards him at terrific speed. At 12:08 p.m, less than 10 minutes after taking off, the aircraft crashed at a speed of 510 km/h into a dairy farm in the village of Mamony, 15 km from Irkutsk airport. The cockpit and the first passenger cabin were destroyed, and the second passenger cabin and tail were propelled 400 m beyond the initial point of impact before disintegrating.
All 115 passengers and 9 crew members on board were killed. A farm building was destroyed; a male occupant was killed, and a female occupant survived with major burns. Additionally, several dozen cattle were killed. A total of 125 people died, of whom only 74 could be identified.
Investigation and cause
Conclusion
The Russian investigation concluded that the crash was caused by a catastrophic engine failure due to the presence of a foreign object inside the No. 2 engine. The uncontained failure resulted in a destructive fire that further damaged the aircraft's hydraulic pipelines. Subsequently, the depleting hydraulic fluids caused the pilots to lose control of their aircraft.
The flight crews were not blamed for the crash, as the investigation concluded that they had followed the instructions that had been given and had done their job in accordance with the flight training that they had received, as well as demonstrating a high level of volitional and professional qualities.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Baikal Airlines Flight 130
- Article
- Baikal Airlines Flight 130
- Revision
- 1372046471 · 2026-08-30 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q4055767
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Baikal Airlines Flight 130" (page 20575685, revision 1372046471)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: ground fatalities
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.