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Malév Flight 110
Accident
An aircraft similar to the one involved in the accident
Date	16 September 1971 (1971-09-16)
Summary	Generator failure and foggy weather
Site	Kyiv-Boryspil Airport, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Tupolev Tu-134
Operator	Malev Hungarian Airlines
Registration	HA-LBD
Flight origin	Budapest-Ferihegy Airport (now Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport), Hungary
Destination	Kyiv-Boryspil Airport, Ukraine
Passengers	41
Crew	8
Fatalities	49
Survivors	0

Malév Flight 110 was a scheduled flight from Budapest-Ferihegy Airport to Boryspil Airport. On 16 September 1971, the Tupolev Tu-134 (HA-LBD) crashed near Kyiv-Boryspil Airport, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union, due to poor visibility conditions, killing all 41 passengers and 8 crew on board (49 people in total). The crash of Flight 110 was Ukraine's third most deadliest airplane crash at the time, and as of 2022, the 10th deadliest in Ukraine.

Accident

The flight from Budapest, Hungary had been delayed by more than an hour after the intended departure due to poor weather conditions. The flight eventually took off; however weather conditions created heavy fog leading to visibility of only roughly 1,800 metres (5,900 ft). These conditions made the crew unable to land on their first attempt.The plane could have returned to land at Budapest or another nearby airport, however the pilot chose to keep circling and try to land at Kyiv-Boryspil Airport. The airplane also signaled that the plane's generator had failed and had forced the crew to switch to the battery's auxiliary power, however, subsequent investigation found that this was a false signal which could have been (but was not) rectified. The crew informed ground control of this situation but did not report that it was an emergency according to protocol. In the event of such an emergency, it was recommended for crew to shut down excessive energy consumers like refrigerators, kitchen heaters or cabin lighting in order to allow the airplane to operate on battery power for longer, however this did not occur and battery life was halved as a consequence. Protocol was followed to safely lower the aircraft for a final attempt at descent but visibility had reduced even more, to 700 metres (2,300 ft), and the pilot was told incorrect yet crucial information about the conditions.

The plane deviated significantly from the advised flight-path and flew over the airport, losing integral radio and radar connection with ground-control. Battery power would have been significantly depleted, likely causing instrument malfunctions and leaving the crew unaware of critical information for a safe landing in the weather conditions. Investigation revealed that the plane sank too low to avoid collision and the right wing tip impacted the ground at a speed of about 550–580 kilometres per hour (300–310 kn; 340–360 mph), causing the aircraft to break into multiple pieces, killing the 8 crew members and 41 passengers aboard instantly. It was impossible to identify the victims from the wreckage. After an investigation, officials determined that the crash was caused by a series of events involving pilot error, mismanagement of the situation by ground crew, aircraft malfunctions, and poor conditions.

References

^ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev Tu-134 HA-LBD Kiev-Borispol Airport (KBP)". aviation-safety.net (in English, French, Dutch, German, and Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-24.
^ "A kijevi katasztrófa titkai". iho.hu (in Hungarian). 2011-09-16. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
"Malév Flight 110 - Summarized by Plex.page - Content - Summarization". Plex.page. Algoritmi Vision Inc. Retrieved 2022-03-24.

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in 1971 (1971)
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1970 ◄ ► 1972

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1971 (1971)

Jan 7 B-52C Lake Michigan crashJan 18 Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 130Jan 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crashJan 30 Indian Airlines hijackingJan 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crashMar 31 Aeroflot Flight 1969May 23 Aviogenex Flight 130May 28 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680Jun 6 Hughes Airwest Flight 706Jun 7 Allegheny Airlines Flight 485Jul 3 Toa Domestic Airlines Flight 63Jul 25 Aeroflot Flight 1912Jul 30 All Nippon Airways Flight 58Jul 30 Pan Am Flight 845Aug 28 Malév Flight 731Sep 4 Alaska Airlines Flight 1866Sep 6 Paninternational Flight 112Sep 13 Lin Biao incidentSep 16 Malév Flight 110Oct 2 British European Airways Flight 706Oct 10 Aeroflot Flight 773Nov 9 Aeroflot Flight N-63Nov 9 Livorno RAF Hercules crashNov 10 Indian Ocean Vickers Viscount crashNov 20 China Airlines Flight 825Nov 24 D. B. Cooper hijackingDec 1 Aeroflot Flight 2174Dec 2 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 712Dec 24 LANSA Flight 508

1970 ◄ ► 1972

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union in the 1970s
1970	Batagay Aeroflot An-24 crash (28 January 1970) Aeroflot Flight 145 (29 January 1970) Aeroflot Flight U-45 (February 1970) Aeroflot Flight 1661 (April 1970) Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair (June 1970) Aeroflot Flight 3630 (September 1970) Aeroflot Flight 244 (October 1970)
1971	Surgut Aeroflot An-12 crash (22 January 1971) Surgut Aeroflot An-12 crash (31 January 1971) Aeroflot Flight 1969 (March 1971) Aeroflot Flight 1912 (July 1971) Malév Flight 110 (September 1971) Aeroflot Flight 773 (October 1971) Aeroflot Flight N-63 (November 1971) Aeroflot Flight 2174 (December 1971)
1972	Aeroflot Flight B-608 (4 May 1972) Svetlogorsk An-24 crash (16 May 1972) Aeroflot Flight 1491 (18 May 1972) Aeroflot Flight 558 (August 1972) Aeroflot Flight 1036 (1 October 1972) Aeroflot Flight 217 (13 October 1972) Japan Air Lines Flight 446 (November 1972)
1973	Aeroflot Flight 6263 (January 1973) Aeroflot Flight 630 (24 February 1973) Aeroflot Flight X-167 (28 February 1973) Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 307 (March 1973) Aeroflot Flight 2420 (April 1973) Aeroflot Flight 6551 (11 May 1973) Aeroflot Flight 109 (18 May 1973) Aeroflot Flight A-13 (August 1973) Aeroflot Flight 3932 (September 1973) Aeroflot Flight 964 (October 1973) Aeroflot Flight 19 (November 1973) Aeroflot Flight 2022 (December 1973)
1974	Aeroflot Flight H-75 (January 1974) Leningrad Aeroflot Il-18 crash (April 1974)
1975	Aeroflot Flight E-15 (July 1975) Aeroflot Flight 6274 (November 1975)
1976	Aeroflot Flight 2003 (January 1976) Aeroflot Flight 3739 (February 1976) Aeroflot Flight 909 (March 1976) Aeroflot Flight 1802 (May 1976) Anapa mid-air collision (September 1976) Aeroflot Flight 2415 (November 1976) Aeroflot Flight N-36 (December 1976)
1977	Aeroflot Flight 3843 (January 1977) Aeroflot Flight 5003 (February 1977) Tavda mid-air collision (May 1977) Aeroflot Tu-134 hijacking (10 July 1977) Aeroflot Flight B-2 (20 July 1977)
1978	Korean Air Lines Flight 902 (April 1978) Aeroflot Flight 6709 (19 May 1978) Yegoryevsk Tu-144 crash (23 May 1978) Iranian Chinook shootdown (June 1978) Aeroflot Flight 1080 (7 October 1978) Aeroflot Flight 6515 (23 October 1978)
1979	Aeroflot Flight 1691 (March 1979) Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision (11 August 1979) Aeroflot Flight 5484 (29 August 1979)
1960–1969 ◄ 1970–1979 ► 1980–1991

Aviation accidents and incidents in Ukraine

Ukrainian SSR
(1919–1991)

1950s	Kiev mid-air collision (August 1957) Aeroflot Flight 315 (November 1959)
1960s	Aeroflot Flight 315 (February 1960) Aeroflot Flight 036 (August 1960) Aeroflot Flight N-826 (August 1969)
1970s	Aeroflot Flight 3630 (September 1970) Aeroflot Flight 1969 (March 1971) Malév Flight 110 (September 1971) Aeroflot Flight N-63 (November 1971) Aeroflot Flight 1491 (May 1972) Aeroflot Flight 1802 (May 1976) Aeroflot Flight N-36 (December 1976) Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision (August 1979)
1980s	Zolochiv mid-air collision (May 1985) Aeroflot Flight N-528 (June 1987)

Ukraine
(1991–)

1990s	Borodianka mid-air collision (February 1995)
2000s	Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 (October 2001) Sknyliv air show disaster (July 2002) Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 (August 2006)
2010s	South Airlines Flight 8971 (February 2013) Ukrainian Air Force Il-76 shootdown (June 2014) Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (July 2014) Ukraine Air Alliance Flight 4050 (October 2019)
2020s	Chuhuiv An-26 crash (September 2020) Brovary helicopter crash (January 2023)

This includes accidents in the Ukrainian SSR and post-independence Ukraine

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