Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51

Historical eventSeptember 122021

Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51

Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.

5th anniversary in 2026

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When
Sunday, September 12 20215 years ago
Category
Historical eventA dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.
Era
21st century · 2020s
Anniversary
5th in 2026
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Dates: From 2021.

What came before

Background The aircraft, a Let L-410 Turbolet model UVP-E20, was manufactured and commissioned in 2014. The Let-410 is built by Czech aerospace manufacturer Let Kunovice . The airline Siberian Light Aviation, also known by the name of Sila Avia, was founded in January 2017 and flies short-haul flights in Siberia and areas just southwest of Siberia such as Omsk, Tiumen, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Nizhny Tagil. Their headquarters is in Magadan. At the time of the accident,

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From 2021

What happened

Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 was a passenger flight on September 12, 2021, by a Let L-410 Turbolet plane, from Irkutsk north to Kazachinskoje, Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, near Lake Baikal. The plane crashed about 4 kilometers from the airport.

September 12 through the years

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  7. 2012Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 (2012)
  8. 2013NASA
  9. 2014Synagogue Church of All Nations
  10. 2015Petlawad explosion
  11. 2021Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51

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September 12 2021 — 5 years ago, on a Sunday.

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