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Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 was a commercial flight shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force over the Black Sea on 4 October 2001, en route from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Novosibirsk, Russia. The aircraft, a Soviet-made Tupolev Tu-154, carried 66 passengers and 12 crew members. Most of the passengers were Israelis visiting relatives in Russia. There were no survivors. The crash site is about 190 km west-southwest of the Black Sea resort of Sochi, 140 km north of the Turkish coastal town of Fatsa and 350 km south-southeast of Feodosiya in Crimea. The crash was caused by a missile launched during joint Ukrainian-Russian military air-defence exercises[3] at the Russian-controlled training ground of the 31st Russian Black Sea Fleet Research center on Cape Opuk near the city of Kerch in Crimea. Ukraine eventually admitted that it might have caused the crash, probably by an errant S-200 missile fired by its armed forces.[4] Ukraine paid $15 million to surviving family members of the 78 victims ($200,000 per victim).

Occurrence

Date: 4 October 2001

Cause: Accidental shootdown by Ukrainian S-200 missile

Site: Black Sea
42°11'N 37°37'E

Aircraft

Aircraft type: Tupolev Tu-154M

Operator: Siberia Airlines (S7 Airlines)

Registration: RA-85693

Flight origin: Ben Gurion Airport Tel Aviv, Israel

Destination: Tolmachevo Airport
Novosibirsk, Russia

Occupants: 78

Passengers: 66

Crew: 12

Fatalities: 78

Survivors: 0