Aeroflot Flight 6709

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Aeroflot Flight 6709 was a Tupolev Tu-154B on a domestic route from Baku to Leningrad on 19 May 1978. The flight took off from Heydar Aliyev International Airport (then Bina) at 10:30 a.m. and was headed to Pulkovo Airport in Leningrad, about 2,550 kilometres away. About two hours into the flight, fuel starvation caused all three engines to fail. The aircraft crashed and caught fire near Maksatikha, in the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Some reports say the problem came from an accidental shutoff of fuel pumping to the sump tank by the flight engineer, but this is not certain. Of the 134 people on board (126 passengers and 8 crew), 4 were killed and 27 were injured. 130 people survived.