Accidents and incidents involving the Ilyushin Il-18
A Russian military forces Il-18/22 VzPU airborne command post RA-75917 [110] was, through several Telegram video and casualty postings, reported shot down by Wagner PMC forces along the highway from Rostov-on-Don to Voronezh, during the Wagner Group rebellion and “March to Justice” towards Moscow. [111] 8 crew members were identified as having been killed. [112]
Russian Air Force Il-22M11 95678 was heavily damaged (most likely by an surface-to-air missile) while on duty in the area of Strilkove at about 21 p.m. on January 14. After the hit, the plane managed to land in Anapa, requested evacuation, calling an ambulance and a fire truck. A voice recording was published by RBC-Ukraine of the pilot requesting coordination of emergency airport services. [113]
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1973.
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1974. 1974 had been deemed as “the single worst year in airline history” although this has since been surpassed.
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1975.
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1976.
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1977.
The Ilyushin Il-12 was a Soviet twin-engine cargo aircraft, developed in the mid-1940s for small and medium-haul airline routes and as a military transport.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, its former republics started establishing their own carriers from the corresponding directorates Aeroflot had at these countries, causing the airline to shrink drastically. The fleet reduced from several thousand aircraft to a number slightly over 100 in 1993, helping the former Soviet Union's national airline to improve its accidents and incidents record sharply. The company experienced 42 events between 1990 and 1991 only, and had 41 occurrences in the rest of the decade. Despite this, the three deadliest accidents the airline went through in the decade occurred in the post-Soviet era, leaving a death toll of 257, each one involving more than 50 fatalities.
Aeroflot Flight 2230 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Yekaterinburg to Tashkent. On 16 November 1967, the Ilyushin Il-18 aircraft serving the flight crashed after takeoff, killing all 107 people aboard. At the time it was the deadliest aviation accident in the Russian SFSR and the worst accident involving the Il-18.