Siberia Airlines Flight 1812
RA-85693, the aircraft involved in the accident at Hannover Airport in 2000 | |
| Occurrence | |
|---|---|
| Date | 4 October 2001 |
| Summary | Accidental shootdown by Ukrainian S-200 missile |
| Site | Black Sea 42°11′N 37°37′E / 42.183°N 37.617°E |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-154M |
| Operator | Siberia Airlines |
| IATA flight No. | S71812 |
| ICAO flight No. | SBI1812 |
| Call sign | SIBERIAN 1812 |
| Registration | RA-85693 |
| Flight origin | Ben Gurion Airport Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Destination | Tolmachevo Airport Novosibirsk, Russia |
| Occupants | 78 |
| Passengers | 66 |
| Crew | 12 |
| Fatalities | 78 |
| Survivors | 0 |
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 was a commercial flight shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force over the Black Sea on 4 October 2001, en route from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Novosibirsk, Russia. The aircraft, a Soviet-made Tupolev Tu-154, carried 66 passengers and 12 crew members. Most of the passengers were Israelis visiting relatives in Russia. There were no survivors. The crash site is about 190 km west-southwest of the Black Sea resort of Sochi, 140 km north of the Turkish coastal town of Fatsa and 350 km south-southeast of Feodosiya in Crimea. The crash was caused by a missile launched during joint Ukrainian-Russian military air-defence exercises at the Russian-controlled training ground of the 31st Russian Black Sea Fleet Research center on Cape Opuk near the city of Kerch in Crimea. Ukraine eventually admitted that it might have caused the crash, probably by an errant S-200 missile fired by its armed forces. Ukraine paid $15 million to surviving family members of the 78 victims ($200,000 per victim).