Boeing 737 landing incident in Kyiv
Belavia Boeing 737 Next Generation · Presence of Armen Martirosyan on board the aircraft
From Zhuliany, Kyiv (Ukraine) to Minsk (Belarus)
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
- 142
- 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
Boeing 737 Next Generation
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 737
- 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
- EW-456PA
- Operator
- Belavia
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Zhuliany, Kyiv (Ukraine)To Minsk (Belarus)
Approximate · Estimated position: Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany), the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
The Boeing 737 landing incident in Kyiv was an aviation incident that occurred on 21 October 2016 in Ukraine. A Boeing 737-8ZM airliner of the Belarusian airline «Belavia» was operating scheduled international passenger flight B2-840 on the route Kyiv — Minsk, but soon after take-off, at the demand of the SBU, it was forced to return to the departure airport. After landing, journalist and blogger Armen Martirosyan was detained and subsequently released. Representatives of the airline «Belavia» claimed that the Ukrainian controller had given notice that, in the event of non-compliance, fighters would be scrambled to intercept, and provided audio recordings of the communications with the pilots. The Ukrainian side, in turn, denied the accusations.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Инцидент с посадкой Boeing 737 в Киеве” (revision 155025393, 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 посадкой Boeing 737 в Киеве
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 155025393 · 2026-09-12 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q107029459
- 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 посадкой Boeing 737 в Киеве" (page 8843164, revision 155025393), 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
- "scheduled international passenger flight" in the article's opening paragraph
- 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.