RA-85693, the aircraft involved in the accident at Ellinikon International Airport in 1997
Shootdown
Date
4 October 2001
Summary
Accidental shootdown by Ukrainian S-200 missile[1]
Site
Black Sea 42°11′N37°37′E / 42.183°N 37.617°E / 42.183; 37.617
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Tupolev Tu-154M
Operator
Siberia Airlines
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[2] 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 combat-missile launched during joint Ukrainian-Russian military air-defence exercises[3] 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.[4] Ukraine paid $15 million to surviving family members of the 78 victims ($200,000 per victim).[5][6]
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^Yanina Vaskovskaya (15 October 2001). "We Hit". Novaya Gazeta. Archived from the original on 8 May 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^Ben Aris (13 October 2001). "Ukraine admits it shot down Russian airliner". The Telegraph.
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