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Siberia Airlines Flight 1812

4 Oct 2001 · Black Sea

Tupolev Tu-154M · Accidental shootdown by Ukrainian S-200 missile

From Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV) to Tolmachevo Airport, Novosibirsk, Russia

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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
78 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
78
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
Unknown
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
S71812
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-85693
Onboard fatalities
78
Route
From Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV)To Tolmachevo Airport, Novosibirsk, Russia

Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.

From the Wikipedia article

Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 was a commercial flight shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force over the Black Sea on 4 October 2001, en route from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Novosibirsk, Russia. The aircraft, a Soviet-made Tupolev Tu-154, carried 66 passengers and 12 crew members. There were no survivors. The crash site is about 190 km west-southwest of the Black Sea resort of Sochi, 140 km north of the Turkish coastal town of Fatsa and 350 km south-southeast of Feodosiya in Crimea. The crash was caused by a missile launched during joint Ukrainian-Russian military air-defence exercises at the Russian-controlled training ground of the 31st Russian Black Sea Fleet Research center on Cape Opuk near the city of Kerch in Crimea. Ukraine eventually admitted that it might have caused the crash, probably by an errant S-200 missile fired by its armed forces. Ukraine paid $15 million hryvnia to surviving family members of the 78 victims (US$200,000 per victim).

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Wikipedia article: Siberia Airlines Flight 1812
Article
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812
Revision
1365771868 · 2026-07-24 · retrieved 2026-09-18
Wikidata
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Licence
Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
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Record
Wikipedia article "Siberia Airlines Flight 1812" (page 928166, revision 1365771868)
Date
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Place and country
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Map position
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Aircraft, operator and route
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Operation
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Fatalities
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Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia infobox: summary
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  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.