The crash was the deadliest aviation accident in 2006 . At the time it was the deadliest crash in Ukrainian modern history and the second deadliest in Ukraine SSR , after the 1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision The death toll was eventually surpassed in 2014 when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down 40 miles east of where flight 612 had crashed , also located in Donetsk Oblast , killing all 298 people on board in the deadliest single airliner shoot-down in aviation history
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612