Yakovlev Yak-40 crash, Oct 2, 1978, Tbilisi-Shota-Rustave...
Yakovlev Yak-40 accident on October 2, 1978 near Tbilisi-Shota-Rustaveli (ex Novo Alekseyevka) Tbilisi City District, Georgia with no fatalities.
- Date: October 2, 1978
- Aircraft: Yakovlev Yak-40
- Location: Tbilisi-Shota-Rustaveli (ex Novo Alekseyevka) Tbilisi City District, Georgia
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
A Yakovlev Yak-40 (CCCP-87544) on a scheduled Ulyanovsk to Volgograd to Tbilisi flight lost both its primary and emergency hydraulic systems at night. Only the nose gear could be lowered, and the aircraft landed on its belly at Tbilisi. It overran the runway, struck the localizer antenna and a concrete wall, and came to rest in a ravine, broken in three.