1958 Aeroflot Тu-104 Kanash crash occurred on 17 October 1958 when a Tupolev Tu-104A operated by Aeroflot flying an international route from Beijing to Moscow crashed in bad weather near the town of Kanash , Russia , four hundred miles east of Moscow , killing all 80 people on board . The flight was carrying high-level diplomatic delegations from numerous Soviet aligned countries such as China , East Germany , and Czechoslovakia . It was just the second fatal accident involving the Tu-104 which had been introduced into Aeroflot 's inventory two years earlier , and the deadliest in the aircraft 's history until the crash of Aeroflot Flight 902 in 1962
Aeroflot Flight 902
Aeroflot Flight 902
1958 Aeroflot Tu-104 Kanash crash