Tupolev TU-104 crash in Tripoli
Czech Airlines Tupolev Tu-104 · Engine failure
From Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Tripoli International Airport, Libya
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
- 13 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
- 0
- 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-104
- Aircraft type
- Tupolev TU-104
- 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
- OK-NDD
- Operator
- Czech Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 13
- Route
- From Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)To Tripoli International Airport, Libya
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The Tupolev TU-104 crash in Tripoli of 1 June 1970 was a scheduled flight from Prague, Czech Republic to Tripoli, Libya. The aircraft crashed seconds before landing; one of the engines failed and the aircraft crashed ten kilometres from the airport, killing its thirteen occupants.
The flight and accident
The aircraft was in full descent towards the airport when they reported the failure of one of its engines and it shut down, and the aircraft fell onto a desert; all its crew died. It was determined that a turbine failure caused the accident.
Flight background
The aircraft was a TU-104 built in 1959, operated by the airline Czech Airlines, departing from Prague bound for Tripoli.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del Tupolev TU-104 en Trípoli” (revision 164062347, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Spanish Wikipedia article: Accidente del Tupolev TU-104 en Trípoli
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 164062347 · 2024-12-11 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q20012897
- 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
- es Wikipedia article "Accidente del Tupolev TU-104 en Trípoli" (page 6638196, revision 164062347), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an airline in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.