Airplane Crash - Goussainville, France 06/03/1973
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Goussainville, France
| Date | 06/03/1973 |
| Location | Goussainville, France |
| Operator | Aeroflot |
| Route | Demonstration |
| Type | Tupolev TU-144 |
| Registration | CCCP-77102 |
| Cn/In | 01-2 |
| Aboard | 6 |
| Fatalities | 6 |
| Ground | 8 |
| Summary | During a steep climb at an airshow, the airplane was observed to level off very abruptly and then begin a dive. The plane broke apart and exploded before crashing into a residential area killing 8 people and seriously injuring 60 others. The pilot, possibly startled by a close encounter with a Mirage jet photographing the TU-144, overreacted causing a compressor stall. The aircraft then went into a dive and broke apart after the aircraft's design capacity was exceeded. |
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