Yerevan

The four engine aircraft departed Yerevan Airport on a cargo flight to Turkmenbashi, carrying 8 passengers, 7 crew members and a load of 13 tons of various goods. En route, while cruising at an altitude of 9,100 metres, the crew requested the permission to divert to Baku-Bina Airport. On approach, the crew was instructed by ATC to initiate a go-around as he was aligned on the wrong runway (a runway under construction and parallel to the active runway 35). The crew started to climb when all four engines stopped simultaneously. The aircraft stalled and crashed in a rocky field located 6 km from the airport. All 15 occupants were injured and the aircraft was destroyed.

En route from Simferopol to Yerevan, while cruising at an altitude of 10,200 meters over the city of Gali in Abkhazia, the crew spotted CB's at high altitude but failed to modify his route. The aircraft went into the CB's and encountered severe turbulences. The crew was able to continue the flight within further incident and to land at Yerevan Airport. After being parked on apron, the aircraft was inspected and it was later confirmed that it sustained severe structural damages after it recorded excessive G loads (+3.05/-0.65). There were no casualties but the aircraft was considered as damaged beyond repair.

After completing two round-flights from Tel Aviv to Tehran via Larnaca (Cyprus), the aircraft was returning to Cyprus after having delivered the third tranche of cargo to Iran (a load of tank spare parts and ammunition). On its return flight from Tehran to Cyprus on its third trip, while on a 300° heading to the Turkish border, the crew was instructed to turn left heading 240° direct to Cyprus. For unknown reasons, the plane went off course to the north and crossed the Azerbaijan border without any clearance. Few minutes later, a Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 fighter was dispatched to intercept the CL-44. According to Soviet accounts at that time the crew failed to respond to radio calls as well as signals from the fighter pilot flying close to the CL-44's nose. The cargo plane, while probably making the procedure turn to the left, tried to get away. In unclear circumstances, both aircraft collided. They went out of control and entered a dive before crashing about 50 km from Yerevan. All four crew people on board the CL-44 were killed while the fighter pilot was able to bail out and was found alive. It is unclear whether the collision was intentional, the Soviet pilot said it was a deliberate attempt to down the enemy aircraft, while Western aviation experts examining his account believed he misjudged a turn and subsequently invented a story of self-sacrifice.

After takeoff from Sisian Airport, while in initial climb, the single engine airplane encountered downdrafts and crashed. There were no casualties.

While cruising by night at an altitude of 7,800 metres, the electrical system failed, causing several instruments to fail, among them gyros. Control was lost and the airplane entered a dive and eventually crashed in a nose-down angle of 70° in an open field located 150 metres from the village of Verkhnyaya Khava, about 50 km northeast of Voronezh. Some debris of the airplane were found at a depth of 14 meters. It disintegrated on impact and all 111 occupants were killed.

While completing a visual approach to Batumi Airport, the crew encountered poor weather conditions and initiated a go around procedure. The pilot-in-command completed a first turn to the right, flew for about 1,5 km then made a turn to the left. While cruising at an altitude of 550 meters at a speed of about 300-350 km/h in a flaps and gear down configuration, the airplane struck the slope of Mt Mtirala (595 meters high) located 15 km from the airport. The aircraft disintegrated on impact and all 40 occupants have been killed.

On final approach to Yerevan-Erebuni Airport, the aircraft entered in a patch of fog and the pilots continued the approach despite they lost visual contact with the ground. The airplane struck the runway surface, went out of control and came to rest. While all occupants were uninjured, the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

The crew decided to land on an airstrip near Yerevan without authorization. After touchdown, the aircraft skidded and overran before coming to rest. There were no casualties but the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

The takeoff from Leningrad-Shosseynaya Airport was performed in low clouds and snow falls. After liftoff at a speed of 250 km/h, the airplane climbed to a height of 30-50 meters when it adopted an excessive nose-up attitude and banked left and right. In a high angle of attack, it continued on a distance of 5,300 meters when it lost height, causing the base of the tail to struck the ground. Out of control, it crashed at a speed of 200 km/h in a snow covered field, rolled for about 210 meters and came to rest 290 meters to the right of the extended centerline. Five crew members and a policeman, Major by the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Armenia were killed while 26 other occupants were injured, some of them seriously. 54 other occupants escaped uninjured. The aircraft was destroyed.

Damaged beyond repair when made a hard landing near Yerevan due to a pilot error. There were no casualties.