Crash of Aeroflot Flight 3519

Date: December 23, 1984 • Location: Yemel’yanovo, Russian Federation

An engine fire caused Aeroflot Flight 3519 to crash shortly after takeoff from Krasnoyarsk, USSR, killing all but one of the 111 people on board.

Aeroflot Flight 3519 was a scheduled flight operated by a Tupolev Tu-154 from Krasnoyarsk Airport in Krasnoyatsk, Soviet Union, to Irkutsk Airport in Irkutsk, Soviet Union. On December 23, 1984, the aircraft flying this route crashed due to an engine failure. 110 occupants died; one passenger survived the accident.