Large-Scale Tragedies… The Largest Accidents in the USSR That Did Not Receive Publicity

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The collision of passenger aircrafts over Dneprodzerzhinsk, 1979. One of the biggest football crashes of the time. One plane operated a flight Tashkent — Minsk. On board were 83 people, including 17 members of the Pakhtakor football team. The second plane followed the route Chelyabinsk — Voronezh — Chisinau, which had 89 passengers and 6 crew members on board. As a result of the error of air traffic controllers, two TU-134 aircrafts collided at a height.

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