List of accidents and incidents involving the Yakovlev Yak-40

The Yak-40 suffered 155 accidents and incidents for a total of 870 fatalities.

1970s 3 September 1970 Aeroflot Flight Sh-4, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87690), struck the side of Mount Airy-Tash, 56 mi northeast of Leninabad (now Khujand), Tajik SSR at due to pilot error, killing all 21 on board. 28 July 1971 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87719), overran the runway on landing at Lipetsk Airport after landing too fast due to pilot error; there were no casualties, but the aircraft was written off. 25 January 1972 A Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Yak-40 (YA-KAD) struck trees while on approach to Khost Airport, Afghanistan, suffering severe damage; there were no casualties, but the aircraft was written off. 4 May 1972 Aeroflot Flight B-608, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87778), crashed while on approach to Bratsk Airport after a loss of control caused by windshear, killing all 18 on board. 22 October 1972 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87819) stalled and crashed on takeoff from Krasnoyarsk Severny Airport due to icing; there were no casualties, but the aircraft was written off. 28 February 1973 Aeroflot Flight X-167, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87602), crashed next to the runway at Semipalatinsk Airport during takeoff, killing all 32 on board; the cause was not determined, but stabilizer failure or pilot errors were theorized. 8 August 1973 Aeroflot Flight A-547, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87790), ran off the runway on takeoff from Arkhangelsk Airport after the elevators locked up due to an electrical problem, killing the co-pilot. The pilot should have aborted the takeoff instead of continuing. 2 November 1973 Aeroflot Flight 19, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87607), was hijacked by four people who demanded money and to be taken to Sweden; the plane was stormed on the ground at Moscow and the hijackers arrested. Two out of the four hijackers died. 21 December 1973 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87629) landed hard at Erebuni Airport in fog; there were no casualties, but the aircraft was written off. 1973 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87746) was reportedly written off in an accident at an unknown location; the aircraft was struck off charge on 7 September 1973. 9 April 1974 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87369) ran off the runway at Kazan Airport following an aborted takeoff; all 34 on board survived, but the aircraft was written off. 2 May 1974 Aeroflot Flight 1255, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87398), ran off the runway at Rostov Airport following an aborted takeoff, killing one of 38 on board. 23 May 1974 Aeroflot Flight 166N, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87579), crashed on approach to Kiev due to possible crew incapacitation caused by carbon monoxide poisoning, killing all 29 on board. 14 December 1974 Aeroflot Flight 124, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87630), overran the runway at Bukhara Airport following an aborted takeoff due to a locked elevator, killing seven of 19 on board. 28 January 1975 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87825) ran off the runway at Zaporozhye Airport following an aborted takeoff due to a loss of control; all 17 on board survived, but the aircraft was written off. 19 February 1975 General Air Flight 1745, a Yak-40FG (D-BOBD), ran off the runway on landing at Saarbrücken Airport following thrust reverser failure; all 16 on board survived, but the aircraft was written off. The aircraft was operating a Frankfurt-Saarbrücken service on behalf of Lufthansa. 15 July 1975 Aeroflot Flight E-15, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87415) struck Mount Mtirala, Caucasus Mountains, during a go-around at Chorokh Airport in poor weather, killing all 41 on board. 15 August 1975 Aeroflot Flight 53A, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87323), entered a downdraft and nearly stalled and subsequently crashed on approach to Krasnovodsk Airport due to pilot error and unfavorable weather conditions, killing 23 of 28 on board in Turkmenistan's worst-ever accident. 6 October 1975 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87328) landed wheels-up short of the runway at Kirov Airport following an unexplained throttle down of all three engines; The aircraft struck obstacles, suffering severe damage and catching fire in the process but all 32 on board survived. 22 October 1975 Aeroflot Flight 98L, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87458), crashed near Novgorod Airport. Visibility was poor at Novgorod due to fog, but this was not forecast to the crew. A straight-in approach was attempted, but the aircraft went off course after passing the outer marker. The descent continued until the landing gear and wing struck a building and later crashed into an apartment building and a car, killing all six on board and five on the ground. 19 March 1976 A Syrianair Yak-40S2 (YK-AQC) was hit by a RPG during boarding at Beirut International Airport; Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karam had just boarded the aircraft, but he survived the attack. 2 June 1976 An Aeroflot/Lithuania CAA Yak-40 (CCCP-87541) had to make an emergency landing on a wet meadow while approaching Kiev-Zhulhyany Airport, Ukraine after the flight engineer had accidentally shut down all 3 engines and the flight crew were unable to restart the engines. Everybody on board survived uninjured. 9 September 1976 Aeroflot Flight S-31, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87772) from Rostov Airport to Kerch Airport, collided in mid-air with Aeroflot Flight 7957, an Antonov An-24 (CCCP-46518), over the Black Sea off Anapa due to ATC errors, killing all 70 on board both aircraft. The fuselage of the Yak-40 was never found. 7 December 1976 Aeroflot Flight 929, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87756), force-landed short of the runway at Armavir Air Base due to fuel exhaustion following a diversion from Mineralnye Vody; all 29 on board survived. 17 December 1976 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-88208) performing a cargo flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ust-Kut Airport in poor visibility, killing all seven on board. An investigation determined that the crew failed to follow the pre-flight checklist. 1976 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87563) was written off in Russia. 30 March 1977 Aeroflot Flight 925N, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87738), crashed on approach to Zhdanov Airport in poor visibility after descending too low, killing eight of 28 on board. 11 October 1977 A CSA Yak-40 was hijacked by two men, each armed with a pistol, and flown to Frankfurt where the hijackers surrendered to German authorities and requested political asylum. 13 October 1977 Aeroflot Flight 75 had its cargo hatch opened mid-flight en route to Mykolaiv Airport, resulting in the deaths of 2 people. 8 April 1978 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87911) stalled on takeoff from Aldan Airport and crashed next to the runway; all 17 on board survived. 17 May 1978 A CSA Yak-40 was hijacked by one man (a resident of Brno) but was overpowered and taken into custody when the aircraft landed in Prague. 29 May 1978 A CSA Yak-40 was hijacked by someone demanding to be taken to West Germany. The hijacker was overpowered by the crew and the aircraft diverted to Prague where the hijacker was arrested. 2 October 1978 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87544) overran the runway on landing at Tbilisi Airport following a high-speed, flapless landing due to hydraulic failure; all 30 on board survived. Water that had accidentally leaked into the hydraulic system froze, causing the failure. 7 October 1978 Aeroflot Flight 1080, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87437), crashed on climbout from Koltsovo Airport following engine failure caused by icing, killing all 38 on board. 20 March 1979 An Aeroflot Yak-40K (CCCP-87930) crashed in a dacha colony near Chardzhou Airport due to a loss of control after the aircraft encountered wake turbulence from an Mi-6; all 35 on board survived. 31 October 1979 An Aeroflot Yak-40K (CCCP-87946) force-landed near Tikhoresk, Russia after all three engines lost power due to fuel exhaustion following a deviation from the flight route due to bad weather; all five crew survived. 16 November 1979 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87454) was being ferried from Velikiy Ustlug to Vologda as Flight 564 when it crashed short of the runway at Vologda Airport after descending too low, killing three of the five crew. ATC had falsified weather bulletins to allow certain aircraft to land.

1980s 3 February 1980 A Cubana Yak-40 (CU-T1219) crashed on landing at Baracoa Airport, killing one of 37 on board. 8 June 1980 A TAAG Angola Airlines Yak-40K (D2-TYC) crashed near Matala, Angola, killing all 19 on board; the aircraft was probably shot down by a Zambian Shenyang J-6. 12 June 1980 Aeroflot Flight Sh-88, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87689), struck the slope of a mountain northwest of Dushanbe Airport due to navigational errors by the crew while attempting to avoid bad weather, killing all 29 on board. 18 July 1980 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87793) force-landed on a highway in Arkhangelsk after the flight engineer shut down all three engines by mistake; all 27 on board survived. 29 August 1981 Aeroflot Flight 674, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87346), crashed at Zeya, Russia while on approach after descending too low, killing three of 34 on board. 18 September 1981 Aeroflot Flight V-652, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87455) from Irkutsk Airport to Ilimskiy Airport, collided in mid-air with an Aeroflot Mi-8 helicopter (CCCP-22268) on a training flight while approaching its destination airport. The supposed site of the collision occurred in the clouds. All 33 on board the Yak-40 and seven occupants of the Mi-8 were killed, making it the third deadliest Yak-40 incident at the time. 16 January 1982 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87902) landed wheels-up at Shevchenko, Kazakhstan due to fuel exhaustion; all three crew survived. 31 May 1982 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87485) veered off the runway on landing at Dnepropetrovsk Airport after landing hard in a crosswind; all 35 on board survived. 14 August 1982 A MAP Kazan MSZ Yak-40 (CCCP-98102) broke-up in mid-air and crashed near Bazarnyye Mataki, Russia due to excessive descent following an in-flight fire, killing the four crew. 19 April 1983 Aeroflot Flight E-46, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87291), struck a mountain 26 mi from Leninakan Airport after the crew deviated from the flight route and later descended too low, killing all 21 on board. 29 June 1983 While flying over Kazarman, Kyrgyzstan, an Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87803) encountered a downdraft at and lost with a load of 5.5 g. After regaining control, the crew made an emergency landing at Osh Airport with no casualties to the nine on board. During inspection, it was found that the aircraft had suffered severe structural damage in the descent, and it was written off. 15 August 1983 A MAP Arsenyev APO Yak-40K (CCCP-87201) overran the runway on takeoff from Omsukchan Airport after failing to lift off due to overloading; all nine on board survived. 11 October 1985 Aeroflot Flight 07G, a Yak-40 (CCCP-87803), struck a mountain side 29 mi west of Kutaisi in poor weather while climbing to from , killing all 14 on board. The accident was attributed to ATC errors. 18 April 1986 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87236) was written off at Kazan Airport after structural damage was found on the pylons of engines one and three. 18 April 1986 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87301) veered off the runway on landing at Chita Airport after the right main landing gear failed due to fatigue; all 32 on board survived. April 1986 A Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Yak-40 (YA-KAF) overran the runway on takeoff at Qala i Naw Airport, damaging the nosegear; no casualties. The aircraft was written off as it was deemed not repairable. 17 May 1986 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87928) crashed in the Ob River floodplain (11 mi from Khanty-Mansiysk Airport) after a wing separated during a test flight, killing all five on board. The aircraft was being test-flown following repairs from an incident on 18 April 1986. 16 January 1987 Aeroflot Flight U-505, a Yak-40, crashed on takeoff from Yuzhny Airport after encountering a wake vortex from an Ilyushin Il-76 that had taken off a minute before, killing all nine on board. 25 January 1987 An Aeroflot Yak-40 (CCCP-87696) veered off the runway on takeoff from Tarnogsky Gorodok Airport when the nosegear steering failed; all 25 on board survived.