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{{Infobox Aircraft accident
|date = 16 March 1978
|type = Unknown
|occurrence_type = Accident
|site = Gabare, Bulgaria
|aircraft_type = [[Tupolev Tu-134]]
|tail_number = LZ-TUB
|operator    = [[Balkan Bulgarian Airlines]]
|origin      = [[Sofia Airport|Sofia Vrazhdebna Airport]], [[Bulgaria]]
|destination = [[Warsaw Airport]], [[Poland]]
|passengers  = 66
|crew        = 7
|survivors   = 0
}}

The '''1978 Balkan Bulgarian Tupolev Tu-134 crash''' occurred on 16 March 1978 when a [[Balkan Bulgarian Airlines]] [[Tupolev Tu-134]] airliner on an international flight from [[Sofia Airport|Sofia, Bulgaria]], to [[Warsaw Airport|Warsaw Airport, Poland]]. 

On departure from Sofia, the aircraft was climbing to 8850 m, but at 4900 m it turned on a heading of 050, it turned again to 270 then began an abnormal descent. The aircraft crashed near the village of Gabare, 130 km Nnorth Eeast of Sofia. All 73 on board died. It was never established what the nature of the emergency was or if the aircraft was under control at the moment of impact.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}

== References ==
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* UK CAA Document CAA 429 World Airline Accident Summary (ICAO Summary 4/80)

== External links ==
* {{ASN accident|id=19780316-0}}

{{Aviation accidents and incidents in 1978}}

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