Austrian Airlines Flight 901
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- 11 km (6.8 mi) W of Sheremetyevo International Airport, Soviet Union
 The Vickers Viscount involved in the accident | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 26 September 1960 |
| Summary | Crashed short of runway |
| Site |
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| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Vickers 837 Viscount |
| Operator | Austrian Airlines |
| Registration | OE-LAF |
| Flight origin | Vienna International Airport, Vienna, Austria |
| Stopover | Warsaw Chopin Airport, Warsaw, Poland |
| Destination | Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow |
| Passengers | 31 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 31 |
| Survivors | 6 |
Austrian Airlines Flight 901 was a flight from Vienna, Austria to Moscow, USSR (now Russia) via Warsaw, Poland. On the night of 26 September 1960, the aircraft operating the flight, a Vickers Viscount, crashed near Moscow while on its approach to land, killing 31 of the 37 passengers and crew on board.
The aircraft was a Vickers Viscount 837 four-engine turboprop airliner registered OE-LAF.[1] The aircraft had first flown on 10 February 1960 and had been delivered new to Austrian Airlines about two weeks later, seven months before the crash.[1]
Accident
The aircraft departed Warsaw with six crew and 31 passengers on board. The flight was on approach to land on runway 07 at Sheremetyevo International Airport in the northern outskirts of Moscow when it crashed in a rural area 11 kilometres (7 mi) short of Sheremetyevo's runway near the town of Krukovo.[2]
