Crash of Aeroflot Flight 6502

Date: October 20, 1986 • Location: Berëza, Russian Federation

Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashed on approach to Kurumoch Airport in Samara, Russia (then Kuybyshev in the Soviet Union), killing 70 people on board.

Aeroflot Flight 6502 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Sverdlovsk to Grozny via Kuibyshev. On 20 October 1986, the Tupolev Tu-134A serving the flight crashed in Kuibyshev. Of the 94 passengers and crew on board, 70 were killed when the plane overran the runway after the pilot attempted to make an instrument-only approach with curtained cockpit windows. Investigators determined the cause of the accident was pilot negligence.