Aeroflot Flight 6502: when a pilot’s ego killed 70 passengers
On October 20, 1986, a Soviet Tupolev Tu-134 was flying from Sverdlovsk to Grozny with a stopover in Kuibyshev. The flight was routine until the approach into Kuibyshev, when the pilot, Alexander Kliuyev, made a bet with his crew: he wagered he could land the aircraft using instruments only, with the…
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