Tu-154 fire at Tolmachevo
Aeroflot (West Siberian Civil Aviation Directorate, Tolmachevo Joint Aviation Squadron ) Tupolev Tu-154 · Violations in the work of aerodrome services
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
- Unknown
- 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
- 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-85087
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
The Tu-154 fire at Tolmachevo was an aviation incident (a fire) that occurred on Saturday 18 February 1978 involving a Tu-154A aircraft of the company Aeroflot at Tolmachevo Airport, Novosibirsk. The burned aircraft, or more precisely its tail section, was later used in the filming of the well-known Soviet disaster film «Air Crew» (Ekipazh) directed by Alexander Mitta in 1979.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Пожар Ту-154 в Толмачёво” (revision 150406510, 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: Пожар Ту-154 в Толмачёво
- Article
- Пожар Ту-154 в Толмачёво
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 150406510 · 2025-12-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q16686720
- 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 "Пожар Ту-154 в Толмачёво" (page 4819982, revision 150406510), 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): The aircraft that burned at the airport was an Aeroflot airliner: an airline's aircraft. The article: "involving a Tu-154A aircraft of the company Aeroflot at Tolmachevo Airport, Novosibirsk"
- Fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- 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.