• On 4 November 1957, a TAROM
Ilyushin Il-14P (YR-PCC) operating a government flight from
Bucharest to
Moscow via Kiev, crashed short of the runway at
Vnukovo Airport, killing four of 16 on board. The aircraft was on approach to Vnukovo Airport when the pilot noticed that the aircraft was too low, however, the aircraft continued its descent until it struck treetops and later crashed. The aircraft was carrying a Romanian delegation consisting of
Chivu Stoica,
Grigore Preoteasa,
Alexandru Moghioroș,
Ștefan Voitec,
Nicolae Ceaușescu,
Leonte Răutu and Marin Năstase to Moscow. Preoteasa, who apparently was not wearing a safety belt, and three Soviet crew members lost their lives. • On 24 February 1962, an
Ilyushin Il-18V, registration YR-IMB, operating on an international scheduled flight from
Bucharest Otopeni Airport (OTP) to
Tel Aviv via
Nicosia lost power on all four engines and made a
belly landing on a grassy field in Cyprus. While cruising at over the Mediterranean Sea and offshore, engine number 3 lost power, followed shortly by number 1 and 2. Then, at and offshore, engine 4 also quit. All 100 occupants survived. The aircraft was transported to Moscow for repairs, but it never re-entered service. • On 16 June 1963, a
VEB 14P (YR-ILL) flying from
Munich to
Constanța entered a dive and crashed near the village of
Békéssámson, Hungary following engine problems, killing all 31 on board. • On 9 October 1964, an
Ilyushin Il-14P, registration YR-ILB, operating a domestic scheduled flight from
Timișoara to
Bucharest broke up in mid-air and crashed south of
Cugir, killing all 31 on board. The aircraft had flown into a strong downdraft; the pilot attempted to maintain altitude, but this caused the fuselage to overstress and break up. • On 11 August 1966, a
Lisunov Li-2, registration YR-TAN, crashed in the
Lotrioara Valley en route from Brașov to Constanţa, killing all 24 on board. • On 4 February 1970,
TAROM Flight 35, an
Antonov An-24, registration YR-AMT, operating a domestic scheduled flight from Bucharest to
Oradea struck the side of a mountain in the Vlădeasa mountain group, killing 20 of 21 on board; although nine people survived the crash, eight of them died in the low temperatures before rescuers reached the crash site. The aircraft began descending too soon in poor visibility until it struck treetops on a mountainside, after which it struck the slope of a second mountain. The aircraft was leased from the Romanian government. • On 29 December 1974, an
Antonov An-24, registration YR-AMD, operating on a domestic scheduled flight from
Oradea to
Bucharest was making an unscheduled stop at
Sibiu and crashed into the side of the Lotrului mountains ( south of Sibiu) at an altitude of , killing all 28 passengers and 5 crew members. The crew's incorrect approach procedure execution, which led to the aircraft drifting south off course by , while the wind was increasing turbulence was present. • On 7 August 1980, a
Tupolev Tu-154B-1 registered YR-TPH, operating on an international scheduled flight from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to
Nouadhibou Airport,
Mauritania ditched in the water short of the runway at Nouadhibou Airport. The crew could not see the runway while descending through the decision height. A missed approach procedure was initiated when the pilot felt contact with what he thought was ground but was actually water. All of the 152 passengers and 16 crew members survived the impact, but a passenger suffered a heart attack and died before he could be rescued. Most of the passengers were sailors who were going to replace the crew of two Romanian ships located on the Mauritanian coast. Many passengers swam to the land, while sharks were kept away by the vibrations of an engine which continued to function for a few hours after the crash. • On 5 September 1986, an
Antonov An-24 registered YR-AMF operating on a domestic scheduled flight from
Bucharest Băneasa Airport touched down nose wheel-first while landing at
Cluj Airport. A fire erupted, killing three crew members who were trapped in the cockpit. The other two crew members and all fifty passengers survived. • On 28 December 1989, during the
Romanian Revolution, an
Antonov An-24 flying from Bucharest to
Belgrade, carrying
Sunday Times journalist
Ian Henry Parry, was shot down by a missile at
Vișina, Dâmbovița. All the people on board (six crew members and the passenger) died. that crashed in 1991 near
Uricani. • On 13 August 1991, TAROM Flight 785A, an
Ilyushin Il-18, flying from Otopeni to
Timișoara Airport crashed in the
Retezat Mountains during a repositioning flight. The flight crew, and an aircraft maintenance crew, a total of 9 people, died instantly. Whilst the official cause of the crash was attributed to
pilot error (the pilots did not use radar instruments and only assumed their positions, thus getting lost), the secrecy regarding the crash sparked a few conspiracy theories, which include sabotage, accidental shootdown from a nearby
surface-to-air missiles unit (a theory later dismissed by the MApN), and UFOs that tricked the pilots into believing they had arrived at their destination, linked to the sightings of unusual lights on 4 August 1991. • On 24 September 1994, TAROM Flight 381, an
Airbus A310 registered YR-LCA flying from Bucharest to
Paris Orly, went into a sudden and uncommanded nose-up position and stalled. The crew attempted to countermand the aircraft's flight control system but were unable to lower the nose while remaining on course. Witnesses saw the aircraft climb with an extreme nose-up attitude, then bank sharply left, then right, then fall into a steep dive. Only when the dive produced additional speed was the crew able to recover steady flight. An investigation found that an overshoot of flap placard speed during the approach, incorrectly commanded by the captain, caused a mode transition to flight level change. The auto-throttles increased power and trim went full nose-up as a result. The crew's attempt at commanding the nose-down elevator could not counteract the effect of stabilizer nose-up trim, and the resulting dive brought the aircraft from a height of at the time of the stall to when the crew was able to recover command. The aircraft landed safely after a second approach. There were 186 people on board. in 1995 that crashed 4 days later near Bucharest Otopeni Airport. • On 31 March 1995, a TAROM
Airbus A310 operating as
Flight 371 crashed near
Balotești due to a fault in the throttles and lack of recovery from the
flight crew, killing all 49 passengers and 11 crew members on board. • On 30 December 2007, a TAROM
Boeing 737-300 (YR-BGC "Constanța"), flying Flight 3107 hit a car on the runway of Bucharest
Henri Coandă International Airport while taking off for
Sharm-el-Sheikh. The aircraft stopped beside the runway and was severely damaged. None of the passengers were injured. Because of
fog, neither the tower nor the pilots saw the car belonging to staff who were repairing a runway beacon. • On 9 July 2019, a TAROM
ATR 42-500 (YR-ATF) burst the tyres of the main landing gear wheels at
Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport while conducting the landing of Flight 638 from
Satu Mare. None of the passengers were injured. An internal safety investigation was conducted, with a report being published on 11 September 2019. TAROM's report concluded that the tyre explosions were caused by the parking brakes being engaged on contact with the runway. The brakes locked shortly after contact with the runway. This resulted in the bursting of all four tyres of the main landing wheels. The early engagement of parking brakes were attributed to pilot error. Specifically, poor cockpit resource management (CRM). ==Notes==