Aeroflot Flight 227 (1956)

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Aeroflot Flight 227
Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-14 at Arlanda, November 1970.jpg
Ilyushin Il-14 of "Aeroflot"
Accident
Date22 April 1956 (1956-04-22)
SummaryCrashed after takeoff for reasons unknown
Site Black Sea, near the coast of Sukhumi
Aircraft
Aircraft type Ilyushin Il-14P
Operator Aeroflot (MUTA GVF, 65th Air Detachment)
Registration CCCP-Л1718
Flight origin Vnukovo Airport, Moscow
1st stopover Kharkiv Airport, Kharkiv
2nd stopover Rostov-on-Don Airport, Rostov-on-Don
3rd stopover Sukhumi Airport, Sukhumi
Last stopover Kutaisi Airport, Kutaisi
Destination Tbilisi Airport, Tbilisi
Passengers1
Crew5
Fatalities6
Survivors0

Aeroflot Flight 227 was an Ilyushin Il-14 aircraft operated by Aeroflot that crashed shortly after takeoff near Sukhumi on April 22, 1956, resulting in the deaths of all six people on board.

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Aircraft

The Il-14P with tail number L1718 (factory number 146000202, serial number 02-02) had been manufactured by the MMZ "Znamya Truda" plant on April 14 1956, and on April 18, it was delivered to the 65th Air Detachment of the Moscow Transport Aviation Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet. At the time of the crash, the airliner was still brand new, with only 19 flight hours and 12 landings. [1] [2]

Crash

Flight 227 was operating a mail route from MoscowKharkivRostovSukhumiKutaisiTbilisi. This was the second commercial flight in the aircraft's history. The crew consisted of the commander (PIC) Pyotr Alekseyevich Drizhenog, second pilot Konstantin Georgiyevich Kiselev, flight engineer Yuri Aleksandrovich Ivanov, and radio operator Evgeny Mikhaylovich Alekseyev. The stewardess was Natalya Fyodorovna Bernhardt. The cargo primarily consisted of mail and metal castings, weighing 2 117 kilograms. During the stopover in Sukhumi, a passenger ticket was also sold. [1]

The sky was clear at that time, with scattered stratocumulus clouds at an altitude of 600 meters, and visibility exceeding 10 kilometers. At 20:50 MSK, the aircraft took off from Sukhumi Airport. However, upon reaching an altitude of 60 meters, the Il-14 maintained its course and, with engines running, fell into the Black Sea 2910 meters from the starting point and sank to a depth of 15–17 meters. All six people on board perished. [1]

Causes

Most of the wreckage and the bodies of the victims were recovered from the sea. After studying the components and systems, it was concluded that there had been no technical failures. Although the cause of the crash was not determined, a searchlight from a nearby military base may have blinded the pilot. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Катастрофа Ил-14 МУТА ГВФ близ Сухуми". airdisaster.ru. Archived from the original on 2013-01-22. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  2. "Ильюшин Ил-14П Бортовой №: CCCP-L1718". Russianplanes.net. Archived from the original on 2013-05-20. Retrieved 2013-05-12.

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