Yak-40 crash near Bazarnye Mataki
KMPO, Ministry of Aviation Industry of the USSR Yakovlev Yak-40 · Ignition of aviation fuel
From Borisoglebskoye, Kazan (Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR) to Kurumoch, Kuibyshev (RSFSR, USSR)
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
- 4 · 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
- Unknown
Yakovlev Yak-40
- Aircraft type
- Yakovlev YAK-40
- 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
- CCCP-98102
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- Route
- From Borisoglebskoye, Kazan (Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR)To Kurumoch, Kuibyshev (RSFSR, USSR)
Cause areas
- Not determined › Not determined
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Bazarnye Mataki, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Yak-40 crash near Bazarnye Mataki was an aviation accident that occurred on Saturday, 14 August 1982 near the village of Bazarnye Mataki. A Yak-40 airliner of the Kazan Engine-Building Production Association of the Ministry of Aviation Industry of the USSR was performing a charter cargo flight on the route Kazan — Kuibyshev, but while flying over Alkeyevsky District of the Tatar ASSR the airliner caught fire. The crew attempted an emergency descent, but soon the airliner broke up from the g-loads and fell to the ground near the village of Bazarnye Mataki. All 4 crew members on board were killed.
The cause of the crash was a fuel fire in the centre-section area for undetermined reasons.
Crash
On 14 August 1982, Yak-40 with side number USSR-98102 departs Kazan's Borisoglebskoye airfield, flying from Kazan to Kuibyshev. After climbing, the airliner took up flight level FL170 (5,100 metres). In total there were 4 crew members on board.
The flight itself took place in simple weather conditions. During the flight a fire broke out in the centre section due to the ignition of fuel. The crew undertook an emergency descent, during which the aircraft broke up in the air due to exceeding the maximum permissible speed, after which the wreckage crashed near the village of Bazarnye Mataki.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The true cause of the fire was not determined. The accident investigation commission recommended that a one-time inspection of the fuel system pipelines and of the condition of the electrical wiring in the lower part of the fuselage in the area of frames No. 24A-26 be carried out on the entire Yak-40 fleet.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Як-40 под Базарными Матаками” (revision 150406537, 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
Russian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа Як-40 под Базарными Матаками
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 150406537 · 2025-12-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- 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
- ru Wikipedia article "Катастрофа Як-40 под Базарными Матаками" (page 10948032, revision 150406537), translated into English with AI assistance
- 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
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.