With forty-three passengers and nine crew aboard, RusAir Flight 9605/RusLine Flight 243 crashed near Petrozavodsk Airport, Petrozavodsk, Russia, on 20 June 2011. The Tupolev Tu-134A-3 was flying from Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow, to Petrozavodsk and crashed on approach in bad weather, crashing on highway A133, 3,900 ft shy of the runway. The plane was flying off-course by about 660 ft. Subsequent to this crash, all Tu-134s were withdrawn from commercial service in Russia. Forty-seven people died. Of the five injured, the only surviving crew member was a flight attendant.
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