Tu-154 crash in Bucharest
Tarom Tupolev Tu-154 · Engine failure
From Bucharest-Otopeni, Bucharest (Romania) to Bucharest-Otopeni, Bucharest (Romania)
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
- 5 · 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
- 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
- YR-TPJ
- Operator
- Tarom
- Onboard fatalities
- 5
- Route
- From Bucharest-Otopeni, Bucharest (Romania)To Bucharest-Otopeni, Bucharest (Romania)
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The Tu-154 crash in Bucharest was an aviation accident that occurred on Thursday 9 February 1989 in the area of Bucharest-Otopeni International Airport involving a TAROM Tu-154B-2, killing all 5 people on board.
Crash
The aircraft was to perform a training flight, with 5 crew members on board. But on departure from Bucharest-Otopeni airport one of the engines failed. The aircraft struck the ground and was completely destroyed. All 5 people on board were killed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Ту-154 в Бухаресте” (revision 146579689, 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 Ту-154 в Бухаресте
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 146579689 · 2025-07-16 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q18398635
- 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 Ту-154 в Бухаресте" (page 5079735, revision 146579689), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- 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): A Tu-154 of TAROM, Romania's state airline, on a crew training flight: an airline's own training flight counts as air carrier. The article: "involving a TAROM Tu-154B-2, killing all 5 people on board"
- 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.