Flight 3352 of the Soviet state airline Aeroflot provided a connection between the cities of Krasnodar and Novosibirsk with a stopover in Omsk. That early morning of October 11, 1984, 170 passengers were on board the aircraft, including 24 children and a crew of nine.
It was a routine flight that was not meant to be exceptional. However, something has happened that is constantly feared by all air transport operators in the world. One particular mistake resulted in a series of other mistakes, which led to an inevitable catastrophe.
Rain during a stopover
The flight itself proceeded normally. The captain of the aircraft was an experienced forty-nine-year-old Boris Petrovich Stepanov, who had flown more than 16 thousand hours, of which 1846 hours just on Tupolevo Tu-154. The second pilot was forty-seven-year-old Anatoly Yachmenov, in addition to them there was also a navigator Yuri Blazin and flight engineer Vitaly Pronozin in the cockpit.