Aeroflot Flight 821 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by Aeroflot-Nord in a service agreement with Aeroflot and as its subsidiary . On 14 September 2008 , the aircraft operating the flight crashed on approach to Perm International Airport at 5:10 local time ( UTC +06 ) . All 82 passengers and 6 crew members were killed . Among the passengers who were killed was Russian Colonel General Gennady Troshev formerly the commander of the North Caucasus Military District ( including Chechnya ) during the Second Chechen War and adviser to the President of Russia . A section of the Trans-Siberian Railway was damaged by the crash . Flight 821 is the deadliest accident involving a Boeing 737-500 , surpassing the 1993 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 733 , and was the second-deadliest aviation incident in 2008 , behind Spanair Flight 5022
Spanair Flight 5022
Spanair Flight 5022
Aeroflot Flight 821