- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: May 19, 1978
Time: 1332
Location: Pochinok, Russia
Operator: Aeroflot
Flight #: 6709
Route: Baku - Leningrad
AC Type: Tupolev TU-154B
Registration: CCCP-85169
cn / ln: 76A-169
Aboard: 134   (passengers:126  crew:8)
Fatalities: 4   (passengers:4  crew:0)
Ground: 0
Summary: The flight engineer accidentally shut off the automatic transferring of fuel from the sump tank. Eventually all three engines stopped and the plane crashed. Fuel starvation.
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