On January 24, 1988, the Yakovlev Yak-40 operating the flight, crashed after an engine failure caused by unknown causes, crashing near Nizhnevartosk Airport, killing 27 out of the 31 occupants onboard.

[3] However, during the acceleration on the runway, at a speed of 150 km/h, the flight engineer noticed, according to the cockpit voice recorder, that the "air starter open" light illuminated.

Immediately after liftoff, the high-pressure compressor (HPC) RPM of engines No.

Rescue operations were conducted poorly, and the crash site was only located five hours later.

[3] The commission was unable to determine the exact cause of why the engines' RPMs dropped below the level required for horizontal flight in the takeoff configuration.