WORLD : Soviet Transport Crashes; 36 Die
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MOSCOW — A Soviet military plane carrying missile crews and their families crashed into a mountain while trying to land on the Kamchatka peninsula in Soviet Asia, killing all 36 people aboard, Tass said today.
It was the third fatal air crash reported in the Soviet Union in a 10-day period, and the second in which Soviet military personnel were killed.
The Antonov-26 two-engine turboprop transport went down on the volcano-dotted peninsula north of Japan on Thursday, Tass said. The report said visibility was poor.
On Oct. 20, a transport jet carrying supplies to earthquake-ravaged northern Armenia hit a mountain in Armenia, killing all 17 people aboard. Two days earlier, an engine on an Il-76 caught fire and fell off after takeoff in Azerbaijan. The crippled plane crashed into the Caspian Sea, killing all 57 people aboard.
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