A Tu-154 passenger plane with a shooting down record.
The Kyrgyz Tu-154 airliner had a red star drawn on the side, meaning it had a crash record. This dates back to September 26, 2006, when it crashed into a U.S. Air Force KC-135R tanker parked at the intersection of runway and taxiway during takeoff at Manas Airport. The U.S. plane landed at the airport a minute before Tu-154 took off, and the tower directed it to exit the runway from the G taxiway, but the tanker said the taxiway was too dark to see the road clearly, and requested a guide car. The tower made it wait on the taxiway while allowing the Tu-154 to take off from the runway.
The U.S. tanker left the runway along the taxiway, but did not leave completely, but the crew of the tanker did not realize it. The gray livery of the US military aircraft is very unrecognizable at night, and the Tu 154 took off and ran close to find that the other party was still partially across the runway, and the two collided. The wing end of the Tu 154 was more than 3 meters long and crashed, and the fuel tank leaked, but fortunately took off smoothly. After takeoff, the pilot found that the wing was damaged, and immediately returned to the airport runway for an emergency landing that was successful, and the crew and passengers were all safe.
The US tanker was not so lucky, and quickly caught fire after the impact, but the fire was extinguished with the efforts of the airport and US firefighters, and the three crew members were evacuated in time and were not injured. The aircraft was severely damaged.
At that time, this civilian airliner registered EX-85718 had a red star mark that crashed.
