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Aerflot Flight H-36 was a passenger flight operated by Aeroflot's Ukraine division from Chernovtsy Airport in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, to Kiev-Zhulhyany Airport, in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR. The Antonov An-24 crashed on landing at Kiev on 17 December 1976, killing 48 of the 55 passengers and crew aboard.

Aircraft
The accident aircraft was an Antonov An-24 registered as CCCP-46722, manufactured in May 1963 and first flown in June of that year. Designed to hold 50 passengers, it was sent to the Kiev Division of the Ukrainian division of Aeroflot. At the time of the crash, the aircraft had flown for 27,244 flight hours and 25,754 cycles.

Flight
The plane was piloted by a three-man crew: Captain Yuri Petrovich Sukhovey, Co-Pilot Viktor Mikhailovich Kozorez, and flight engineer Grigory Mikhailovich Sorokin.