{"id":60,"date":"2026-02-09T06:08:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhs76.net?p=60"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:26:14","slug":"50-years-ago-aeroflot-flight-3739-a-tupolev-tu-104-crashes-during-takeoff-from-irkutsk-airport-killing-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhs76.net\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"February 9, 1976-Aeroflot Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"class-1976-auto-post\">\n<div class=\"event-badge\">50 Years Ago Today<\/div>\n<div class=\"event-date-display\">February 9, 1976<\/div>\n<div class=\"event-content\">\n<p>Aeroflot Flight 3739 was a regularly scheduled Russian domestic flight from Irkutsk to Pulkovo Airport in Saint Petersburg that crashed during takeoff from Irkutsk International Airport on 9 February 1976. Twenty-four of the 114 people on board died in the accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"event-source\"><em>Source: Wikipedia &#8211; 1976<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>.class-1976-auto-post {<br>background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f5f7fa 0%, #e3e7ed 100%);<br>padding: 30px;<br>border-radius: 15px;<br>margin: 20px 0;<br>}<br>.event-badge {<br>background: linear-gradient(45deg, #d4af37, #f4d03f);<br>color: #2c3e50;<br>padding: 10px 25px;<br>border-radius: 25px;<br>font-weight: bold;<br>text-align: center;<br>display: inline-block;<br>margin-bottom: 20px;<br>text-transform: uppercase;<br>letter-spacing: 1px;<br>font-size: 14px;<br>}<br>.event-date-display {<br>font-size: 20px;<br>color: #667eea;<br>font-weight: bold;<br>margin-bottom: 15px;<br>text-transform: uppercase;<br>}<br>.event-content {<br>background: white;<br>padding: 25px;<br>border-radius: 10px;<br>line-height: 1.8;<br>}<br>.event-source {<br>font-style: italic;<br>color: #7f8c8d;<br>margin-top: 20px;<br>padding-top: 15px;<br>border-top: 1px solid #ecf0f1;<br>}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 Years Ago Today February 9, 1976 Aeroflot Flight 3739 was a regularly scheduled Russian domestic flight from Irkutsk to Pulkovo Airport in Saint Petersburg that crashed during takeoff from Irkutsk International Airport on 9 February 1976. Twenty-four of the 114 people on board died in the accident. Source: Wikipedia &#8211; 1976 .class-1976-auto-post {background: linear-gradient(135deg, &#8230; <a title=\"February 9, 1976-Aeroflot Crash\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bhs76.net\/?p=60\" aria-label=\"Read more about February 9, 1976-Aeroflot Crash\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6,5,3,4],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","tag-1975-1976","tag-50th-anniversary","tag-class-of-1976","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhs76.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhs76.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhs76.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhs76.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhs76.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bhs76.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/bhs76.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhs76.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhs76.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhs76.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}