1979 dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision

Tragedy in the Skies: The Fateful Final Journey of FC Pakhtakor Tashkent

In August 1979 FC Pakhtakor Tashkent's first-team squad perished in a mid-air collision. The crash was a tragic accident, but there is an inevitable whiff of Communist Party cover-up about the events that day.