Armenian Yak-40 incident (9 May 1992)
Yakovlev Yak-40 · Missile attack (interception and attack by a Su-25 “Grach” aircraft)
From / Stepanakert to Zvartnots, Yerevan (Armenia)
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
- Occurrence
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 33
- 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
- 2
- 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
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
- EK-87532
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From / StepanakertTo Zvartnots, Yerevan (Armenia)
Approximate · Estimated position: Sisian, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Yak-40 incident at Sisian was an aviation accident that occurred on Saturday, 9 May 1992, over Nagorno-Karabakh. A Yak-40 airliner of the airline “Armenian Airlines” was operating a domestic passenger flight on the Stepanakert — Yerevan route carrying refugees, but soon after take-off the airliner was attacked by a Su-25 “Grach” aircraft of the Azerbaijani Air Force. Thanks to the skilful actions of the crew, the airliner made a forced landing at Sisian airfield. None of the 33 people on board — 30 passengers and 3 crew members — were killed; two people were injured.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Инцидент с армянским Як-40 (9 мая 1992)” (revision 154940660, 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: Инцидент с армянским Як-40 (9 мая 1992)
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 154940660 · 2026-09-10 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q4202302
- 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 "Инцидент с армянским Як-40 (9 мая 1992)" (page 2439603, revision 154940660), 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): An Armenian Airlines airliner on a domestic passenger flight: an airline flight. The article: "A Yak-40 airliner of the airline “Armenian Airlines” was operating a domestic passenger flight on the Stepanakert — Yerevan route carrying refugees"
- 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.