Aeroflot Flight 3352
An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154B-1, similar to the aircraft involved | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 11 October 1984 |
| Summary | Collision with maintenance vehicles on landing due to ATC error |
| Site | Omsk Airport, Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union 54°58′00″N 73°18′30″E / 54.96667°N 73.30833°E |
| Total fatalities | 178 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-154B-1 |
| Operator | Aeroflot |
| IATA flight No. | SU3352 |
| ICAO flight No. | AFL3352 |
| Call sign | AEROFLOT 3352 |
| Registration | CCCP-85243 |
| Flight origin | Krasnodar International Airport, USSR |
| Stopover | Omsk Airport, USSR |
| Destination | Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport, USSR |
| Occupants | 179 |
| Passengers | 170 |
| Crew | 9 |
| Fatalities | 174 |
| Injuries | 2 |
| Survivors | 5 |
| Ground casualties | |
| Ground fatalities | 4 |
Aeroflot Flight 3352 was a regularly scheduled Aeroflot domestic flight in the Soviet Union from Krasnodar to Novosibirsk, with an intermediate landing in Omsk. While landing at Omsk Airport on Thursday, 11 October 1984, the aircraft crashed into maintenance vehicles on the runway, killing 174 people on board and four on the ground. While a chain of mistakes in airport operations contributed to the accident, its major cause was an air traffic controller falling asleep on duty.
As of 2025, this remains the deadliest aviation accident on Russian territory. It was also the deadliest aviation accident involving a Tupolev Tu-154 at the time until the crash of Aeroflot Flight 5143 nine months later; as of 2024, it still ranks as the second-deadliest accident involving a Tupolev Tu-154. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda in 2017, the newspaper was the first to talk about the accident, as for 20 years, journalists had been silent.