Soviet Jet Crashes on Internal Flight; 11 Killed, 12 Hurt
Eleven people were killed today when a Soviet Aeroflot airliner crashed while landing at Krasnovodsk, in Soviet Turkmenia, the newspaper Izvestia reported.
Twelve others were injured, some of them seriously, it added. The TY-154 aircraft, on a flight from Moscow to Ashkhabad, the capital of Turkmenia, appeared to disintegrate while making a stopover landing at Krasnovodsk at 4:20 a.m., Izvestia said. The cause of the crash was not known, the newspaper said.
The article in the evening newspaper was a rare same-day account of a Soviet plane crash. In the past, Soviet media have reported crashes weeks or months after they occurred, if at all.
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