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Omsk Tsentralny Airport
Tsentralny
Airport
(Аэропорт Центральный is an airport in
Omsk Oblast
,
Russia
, located
5 km
southwest of
Omsk
. It is
capable
of handling
wide-bodied aircraft
and 975,000 passengers passed through the airport in 2013.
Airlines and
destinations
Accidents
and incidents
On 11
October 1984
, a
Tupolev Tu-154B-1
operating as
Aeroflot Flight 3352
crashed into maintenance vehicles occupying the runway at Omsk.
174
of the 179 people
on board
were
killed
, along with 4 of the maintenance crew. The
ground controller
on
duty
had allowed maintenance work to be done on the runway and promptly
fallen
asleep, while the pilots were unable to see the vehicles in time due to poor
weather conditions
. 178 people died in all, making this the Soviet Union's deadliest
airplane crash
until that
date
.
2001
Antonov An-70
Crash