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Aeroflot accidents and incidents

The recorded crashes and serious incidents involving Aeroflot, the Soviet Union's national airline founded in 1923 and now Russia's flag carrier, including the deadliest crash at Omsk in 1984.

Aeroflot fleet

The Aeroflot fleet is the aircraft of Aeroflot Russian Airlines and its subsidiaries Rossiya and Pobeda, 360 aircraft in 2025, operated under Western sanctions since 2022.

Aeroflot Flight 1492

Aeroflot Flight 1492 was a Moscow to Murmansk flight whose Superjet 100 burned after a hard landing on 5 May 2019, killing 41 of 78 aboard.

Aeroflot Flight 593

Aeroflot Flight 593 was an Airbus A310 flight from Moscow to Hong Kong that crashed in Siberia on 23 March 1994, killing all 75 aboard.

Aeroflot Flight 6502

Aeroflot Flight 6502 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Sverdlovsk to Grozny that crashed at Kuybyshev in 1986, killing 70 of 94 people aboard.

Aerogel

Aerogel, also known as frozen smoke or airgel, is a synthetic porous solid made by replacing a gel's liquid with gas, prized as the lightest and best-insulating solid.

Oct 22, 2026

Aerographite

Aerographite is a synthetic carbon foam of hollow graphitic microtubes first produced in 2012 at Kiel University and TUHH; at 0.2 mg/cm³ it was then the lightest material known.

Aerojet Rocketdyne

Aerojet Rocketdyne was an American rocket propulsion manufacturer formed in 2013 by the merger of Aerojet and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, acquired by L3Harris in 2023.

Lanhsa Flight 018 (LNH-018), Jetstream 3200 HR-AYW, crashed into the sea off Roatán on 17 March 2025 just after takeoff for La Ceiba, killing 12 of 17 aboard, including Aurelio Martínez; investigation still open.

Aerolíneas Argentinas

Aerolíneas Argentinas is Argentina's state-controlled flag carrier, founded by President Juan Domingo Perón in 1950, privatized in 1990, renationalized in 2008, and serving 37 domestic and 22 international destinations.

Aerolysin

Aerolysin is a heptameric beta-pore-forming toxin from Aeromonas hydrophila, founding member of the aerolysin-like protein family, activated from proaerolysin and used as a nanopore sensor.

Aerolysin-like, C-terminal

Aerolysin-like, C-terminal (IPR055267, Aerolysin-like_C) is an InterPro domain describing the C-terminal pore-forming region of aerolysin-family beta-pore-forming proteins, carried by toxins such as aerolysin P09167, BinB, and Dln1 across all kingdoms of life.

Sep 29, 2026

Aeromagnetic survey

An aeromagnetic survey is a geophysical method in which a low-flying aircraft with a magnetometer records magnetic anomalies from rocks below, used for geological mapping and mineral exploration.

Aeromedical certification

Aeromedical certification is the process by which an aviation authority, in the United States the FAA, determines that a pilot or air traffic controller is medically fit to fly.

Aeromedical evacuation

Aeromedical evacuation is the movement of wounded, injured, or ill patients by fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft, with en route medical care provided by trained medical flight crews.

Aeroméxico

Aeroméxico, formerly Aeronaves de México, is Mexico's flagship airline. Founded in 1934, it flies from its Mexico City hub and was a founding member of SkyTeam.

Aeroméxico Flight 498

Aeroméxico Flight 498, known as the Cerritos Air Disaster, was a DC-9 airliner that collided in midair with a small Piper plane over Cerritos, California, in 1986, killing 82.

Aeromodelling competition and records

Aeromodelling competition is organized model aircraft contest flying under FAI rules, spanning free flight, control line, radio control, and scale classes, with world championships and ratified records.

Aeromonas caviae

Aeromonas caviae (taxonomy ID 648, basonym Pseudomonas caviae) is a gram-negative aquatic bacterium causing gastroenteritis; it is the most prevalent clinical Aeromonas species, lacks aerolysin and T3SS, and shows 40% multidrug resistance in extra-intestinal isolates.

Aeromonas hydrophila

Aeromonas hydrophila (Bacillus hydrophilus fuscus) is a freshwater Gram-negative fish and zoonotic pathogen causing septicemia, gastroenteritis, and necrotizing fasciitis; species identification requires genome-based ANI methods.

Aeromonas salmonicida

Aeromonas salmonicida (Bacterium salmonicida) is a Gram-negative, nonmotile fish-pathogenic bacterium causing furunculosis in salmonids; typical subsp. salmonicida and atypical subspecies carry A-layer (vapA), T3SS, and plasmid-borne virulence factors.

Aeromonas veronii

Aeromonas veronii is a Gram-negative Aeromonadaceae bacterium described by Hickman-Brenner et al. in 1987. It causes motile Aeromonas septicemia in farmed fish, symbiotically inhabits the medicinal leech gut, and is a leading human Aeromonas pathogen.

Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center

The Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center (CENIPA) is Mexico's technical authority for investigating civil aviation accidents and incidents, determining probable cause and issuing safety recommendations without assigning blame.

Aeronautical chart

An aeronautical chart is a map designed for aircraft navigation, showing terrain relief, airports, airways, navigational aids, controlled airspace, and obstructions, governed internationally by ICAO standards.

Aeronautical Information Publication

An Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) is a State-issued publication containing aeronautical information of lasting character essential to air navigation, defined by ICAO Annex 15 and divided into GEN, ENR, and AD parts.

Aeronautical Mobile Airport Communications System

The Aeronautical Mobile Airport Communications System (AeroMACS) is a standardized broadband wireless data link for airport surface communication, based on WiMAX and operating in the 5091–5150 MHz band.

Aeronautical radiotelephony procedure

Aeronautical radiotelephony procedure is the standardized voice rules governing radio contact between pilots and air traffic services, based on ICAO Annex 10 and FAA guidance.

Aeronautical Telecommunication Network

The Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN) is an internetwork architecture defined by ICAO that lets ground, air-ground, and avionic data subnetworks interoperate, carrying air traffic control datalink communications, with standards transitioning to the Internet Protocol since 2008.

Aeronautics

Aeronautics, also called aeronautical science, is the science of flight and the source of the A in NASA, with aerodynamics, the study of forces on objects through air, at its core.