Aeroflot Flight 2003 was operated on 3 January 1976 by a

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СССР-45037, when it crashed 7 km after take-off from Moscow–Vnukovo Airport (VKO/UUWW), on a domestic flight to

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(MHP/UMMM), and

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(BQT/UMBB),

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. The crash killed all sixty-one on board and one in a house on the ground.

Description of the accident

The aircraft was on initial climb-out following take-off; as it entered clouds both

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s failed, so the crew had no visual reference. The aircraft banked to the left, dived and crashed into a house 7 km from

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Description of the accident

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