Aeroflot Flight 2230
1967 aviation accident
An
Aeroflot
Ilyushin Il-18, similar to the accident aircraft
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Date | 16 November 1967 ( 1967-11-16 ) |
Summary | Engine failure and fire followed by an electrical failure of cockpit instruments |
Site | 2.9 km (1.8 mi) east of Koltsovo Airport |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Ilyushin Il-18 V |
Operator | Aeroflot |
Registration | CCCP-75538 |
Flight origin | Koltsovo Airport , Yekaterinburg |
Destination | Tashkent Yuzhny Airport , Tashkent |
Passengers | 99 |
Crew | 8 |
Fatalities | 107 |
Survivors | 0 |
Aeroflot Flight 2230 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) to Tashkent . On 16 November 1967, the Ilyushin Il-18 aircraft serving the flight crashed after takeoff , killing all 107 people aboard (including twelve children). [1] At the time it was the deadliest aviation accident in the Russian SFSR and the worst accident involving the Il-18. [2]
Aircraft
The flight was serviced by an Ilyushin Il-18V turboprop airliner, manufactured on 25 March 1964 with a serial number 184007002. [3] The aircraft made its maiden flight and commenced operations in the same year. On the day of the accident it had 5,326 flight hours, or 2,111 flight cycles. [3]
Crew
The crew consisted of the pilot in command Yuri Abaturov, co-pilot Nikolai Mikhaylov, navigating officer Anatoly Zagorsky, flight engineer Viktor Ospishchev and radio officer Yuri Yefremov. [1]
Accident
The aircraft was cleared for takeoff from Koltsovo Airport at 21:02 local time. [1] When an engine caught fire and its propeller would not feather, the amount of drag it caused resulted in a sharp right turn while climbing at a speed of 340–350 km/h (180–190 kn) , at an altitude of 140–150 m (460–490 ft) and began to rapidly descend, [1] striking the ground, with a horizontal velocity of 440 km/h (240 kn) and a vertical speed of 20 m/s (66 ft/s) , in a ploughed field, with a 37-degree right bank . [1] [2] The aircraft completely disintegrated, complicating the subsequent accident investigation. [1] There were also fire outbreaks at the crash site.
The investigation said that the crash resulted from a wrong indication of the main artificial horizons and the compass system due to an electrical failure and that the flight crew was unable to determine the correct altitude. [4]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Катастрофа Ил-18В Уральского УГА в а/п Кольцово (Свердловск) (in Russian). Airdisaster.ru . Retrieved 7 December 2013 .
- 1 2 "Accident description" . Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 7 December 2013 .
- 1 2 "Ильюшин Ил-18В Бортовой №: CCCP-75538" (in Russian). Russianplanes.net . Retrieved 20 January 2017 .
- ↑ Gero, David (1996). Aviation Disasters Second Edition . Patrick Stephens Limited. p. 79.
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