Hijacking of a Tu-154 to Pakistan
Neryungri United Air Detachment, Yakut Civil Aviation Directorate Tupolev Tu-154 · Hijackers' escape abroad
From Chulman, Neryungri to Yakutsk
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
- 92
- 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-154
- 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
- CCCP-85323
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Chulman, NeryungriTo Yakutsk
Approximate · Estimated position: Chulman Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
The hijacking of a Tu-154 to Pakistan was the largest hijacking of a Soviet airliner, carried out by inmates of the temporary detention facility of the city of Neryungri on Sunday, 19 August 1990.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Угон Ту-154 в Пакистан” (revision 150406592, 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: Угон Ту-154 в Пакистан
- Article
- Угон Ту-154 в Пакистан
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 150406592 · 2025-12-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q4469125
- 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 "Угон Ту-154 в Пакистан" (page 2630776, revision 150406592), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- airport the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata code, OurAirports)
- 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 is an airline according to Wikidata
- 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.