Found out about this case while using Quora app. Its pretty absurd but I suppose CO pilot won the bet they made about landing blind.
"We can only imagine what they were talking about during the flight, but apparently when nearing their stopover in Kuibyshev, a bet was made between the co-pilot Gennady Zhirnov and the commander. Kliuyev was dared to show his skills by landing the aircraft blind and using only the cockpit instruments. Apparently Kliuyev accepted the challenge and at 15:48 , at a height of 1,300 feet, flight engineers pulled blinds over the windshield and the crew started their descent towards Kuibyshev. The pilot also refused any radio assistance, and ignored the NDB landing approach suggested by the control tower. When the descent has reached the height of about 203-213 the plane control system alarmed a ground proximity warning, which Alexander Kliuyev also ignored and instead of making a go-around and making a second attempt, as stated by the rules, he continued his landing approach. The plane eventually touched the ground at a speed exceeding 170 miles per hour, 132 m past the runway threshold at a vertical speed of 5 m/s. This translated to 4.8 g.
The landing gear broke off on impact and the plane jumped off the track, its right wing tore off while the left one folded in half spilling fuel, while the plane was rolling over in mid air and eventually fell on the ground turned upside-down some 700 feet away from the point of touch down. A few short moments later the plane burst into flames. The crash has killed instantly 63 people, four of which were part of the crew, seven more died later in hospital. A secret reported on the case that was made public at a later date gave slightly different numbers 85 passengers and 8 crew. 53 passengers dying instantly, as well as 5 crew members, 11 more dying later in a hospital. It is unknown what led to this difference in the report, but the numbers are still close enough to not really matter.
All available police squads, fire brigades and ambulances were called in to help. Ironically pilot in command Alexander Kliuyev and co-pilot Gennady Zhirnov had whose bet caused all this, survived the crash. However co-pilot Zhirnov did not hesitate and immediately started helping others and evacuating as many passengers as he could. He was reported to have shown his head out of the plane just to catch a breath and immediately jumped back to help with the rescue. He later died from a cardiac arrest, caused by the large amount of smoke that he had inhaled. Kliuyev survived the incident to be later prosecuted."
