TU 124 ditched on the Neva

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 396.

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On the 21^st of August in 1963 Tu-124 of Aeroflot airline with 45 passengers and 7 crew members performed a scheduled flight from Tallinn to Moscow ( Vnukovo). After take off 27-year old captain found out that nose gear wasn't retracted, he requested returning to departure airport but due to appearing dense fog at it he was diverted to Leningrad.

The aircraft started to circle over the city for a considerate time in order to burn fuel for safe landing weight. They executed 8 loops. Meanwhile the crew managed to solve gear problems.

But being busy with the undercarriage pilots disregarded the fuel. So one engine ceased to operate due to fuel starvation and soon the second one cut off. Thus crew was deprived of power and couldn't make it to Pulkovo airport. The only way out was to perform ditching on Neva river. And the captain made use of it. None from the passengers was seriously injured.