Aeroflot Flight 2230

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Aeroflot Flight 2230
Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-18D at Arlanda, 1971.jpg
An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-18, similar to the accident aircraft
Accident
Date16 November 1967 (1967-11-16)
SummaryEngine failure and fire followed by an electrical failure of cockpit instruments
Site2.9 km (1.8 mi) east of Koltsovo Airport
Aircraft
Aircraft type Ilyushin Il-18V
Operator Aeroflot
Registration CCCP-75538
Flight origin Koltsovo Airport, Yekaterinburg
Destination Tashkent Yuzhny Airport, Tashkent
Passengers99
Crew8
Fatalities107
Survivors0

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]

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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]

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References

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