Flight accident of the Ilyushin Il-14 СССР-61618 of Aeroflot

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Flight accident of the Ilyushin Il-14 СССР-61618 of Aeroflot
Ilyushin (VEB) Il-14P, Aeroflot AN1157198.jpg

Aeroflot aircraft of the same construction
Accident summary
Accident type Collision with Berg after engine failure
place Yurchik , 60 km northwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky , Russian SFSRRussia Soviet Federal Socialist RepublicRussian SFSR 
date January 1, 1966
Fatalities 23
Survivors 0
Aircraft
Aircraft type Russia Soviet Federal Socialist RepublicRussian SFSR, Ilyushin Il-14 P
operator Aeroflot , Russian SFSRRussia Soviet Federal Socialist RepublicRussian SFSR 
Departure airport Magadan, Russian SFSRRussia Soviet Federal Socialist RepublicRussian SFSR 
Destination airport Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport , Russian SFSRRussia Soviet Federal Socialist RepublicRussian SFSR 
Passengers 18th
crew 5
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On January 1, 1966, the Ilyushin Il-14 СССР-61618 of Aeroflot crashed on a domestic scheduled flight from Magadan to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky , killing all 23 passengers.

Plane and crew

The aircraft was an Ilyushin Il-14 P ( aircraft registration number : СССР-61618, serial number : 602108), which had completed 12,368 flight hours and 11,356 flight cycles from its first use in 1957 until the accident.

The crew consisted of a flight captain , a first officer , a flight engineer , a navigator and a radio operator .

course

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The plane took off from Magadan at 1:45 a.m. and climbed to an altitude of 3,600 m. At 3:47 a.m., the pilots between Ust-Chairjusowo and Sobolewo reported the failure of the right engine and that they had brought its propeller into the sail position . A further 15 minutes later, they reported an altitude of 3,300 m, as the remaining engine could not maintain the altitude. The captain was advised to make an emergency landing at Sobolewo airport . Upon contact with the airport, he learned that the runway was covered in snow. A landing would only have been possible with the landing gear retracted and the captain decided to continue the flight to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. When the aircraft sank to 2,900 m and thus below the safety altitude of 3,100 m, the pilots were instructed to land at Ust-Bolsheetsk airport. The situation there was the same as in Sobolewo and the captain decided to continue the flight again. The aircraft then went off course by 25–30 km and sank to 2,700 m. The captain wrongly assumed that this height would be sufficient to fly over the mountain Yurtschik (2,059 m). Shortly thereafter, the aircraft flew into a snowfall with turbulence, where an engine could not fly a curve and continued to lose altitude. It then collided with the Yurtschik at 5:30 a.m. at an altitude of 2,049 m or 10 m below the summit and 60 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Due to the adverse weather conditions, the search operation, during which the wreck was found on January 4, was delayed.

root cause

The reason for the engine failure was a failure of the No. 12 cylinder head in the right engine. The situation was exacerbated by the decision of the captain to continue the flight with the remaining engine over mountainous terrain with snowfall.

Similar cases

Aeroflot flight 40 on July 6, 1962: In this case, too, the pilots of an Il-14 attempted to reach the destination airport despite the engine failure and alternative landing options.

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