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| Ceased operations | September 1998 | |||
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| Headquarters | Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia | |||
OJSC "Baikal Airlines Flight 130" (Russian: ОАО «Авиакомпания «Байкал») was an airline based in Irkutsk, Russia.
The airline was initially created as a sister company of Baikalavia, which was in turn a subsidiary of Aeroflot, following its mid-1992 reorganisation process.
On 3 January 1994 a Baikal Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 that took off from Irkutsk crashed after the crew ignored cockpit indicator warnings. 154 people died.[1][2][3]
When starting engine #2, crew noticed warning light, signaling about dangerous rotation of the starter. The crew decided to take off, believing that warning was false. At initial climb, starter failure caused a fire in the engine #2. Fire in the tail section of the aircraft damaged all three hydraulic lines. With all control surfaces disabled, aircraft became uncontrollable, and crashed near Mamony town. 125 people on board and 1 man on the ground were killed.