Aeroflot Flight 821

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Aeroflot Flight 821 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Aeroflot-Nord,a lease airline by Aeroflot with a service agreement with Aeroflot and as its subsidiary. On 14 September 2008, the Boeing 737-500 operating the flight crashed on approach to Perm International Airport at 05:10 local time (UTC+06). All 82 passengers and six crew members were killed. Among the passengers who were killed was Russian Colonel General Gennady Troshev, an adviser to the President of Russia who had been the commander of the North Caucasus Military District (including Chechnya) during the Second Chechen War. A section of the Trans-Siberian Railway was damaged by the crash. Flight 821 was the deadliest accident involving a Boeing 737-500, surpassing the 1993 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 733, and was the second-deadliest aviation accident of 2008, behind Spanair Flight 5022. The primary cause of the crash was that both pilots had lost spatial orientation due to their inexperience with the...

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