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An-24 crash at Moe

19 Apr 1977 · near the village of Moe, Tapa Parish, Lääne-Viru County (Estonian SSR, USSR)

Soviet Air Force An-34 · Crew error, difficult weather conditions

From Pärnu (Estonian SSR) to Tapa (Estonian SSR)

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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
21 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
Unknown
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
Military

An-34

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
Unknown
Onboard fatalities
21
Route
From Pärnu (Estonian SSR)To Tapa (Estonian SSR)

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

From the Wikipedia article

The An-24 crash at Moe was an aviation disaster that occurred on 19 April 1977 near the village of Moe, Tapa Parish, Lääne-Viru County, Estonian SSR, involving an An-24T aircraft of the USSR Ministry of Defence, in which all 21 people on board were killed.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Ан-24 в Моэ” (revision 154969571, 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 Ан-24 в Моэ
Article
Катастрофа Ан-24 в Моэ
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
154969571 · 2026-09-11 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q15074901
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
ru Wikipedia article "Катастрофа Ан-24 в Моэ" (page 4476304, revision 154969571), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
Wikipedia article 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
operator named as an armed force or military unit 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 Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.