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1968 aviation accident

Aeroflot Flight 15
Accident
An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-18D, similar to the one involved in the accident.
Date	29 February 1968
Summary	Undetermined
Site	Parchum, Chunsky District, Irkutsk Oblast, USSR
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Ilyushin Il-18D
Operator	Aeroflot
Registration	CCCP-74252
Flight origin	Domodedovo International Airport
Stopover	Yemelyanovo International Airport
Destination	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport
Occupants	84
Passengers	75
Crew	9
Fatalities	83
Injuries	1
Survivors	1

Aeroflot Flight 15 (Russian: Рейс 15 Аэрофлота Reys 15 Aeroflota) was a passenger flight from Moscow-Domodedovo Airport to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport with a stopover at Yemelyanovo Airport that crashed on 29 February 1968 en route to Petropavlovsk. All but one aboard the aircraft were killed in the crash.

Aircraft

The aircraft involved in the accident was an Ilyushin Il-18D registered CCCP-74252 to the Aeroflot Far East Civil Aviation Directorate. At the time of the accident, the aircraft had 342 flight hours and 89 pressurization cycles.

Crew

The cockpit crew consisted of:

Captain Eugene A. Berezhnov
Co-Pilot Vladimir Makarov
Navigator Benedict E. Dernov
Flight Engineer Nikolai Vasilyes
Radio operator Ivan M. Pashchenko

Accident

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The flight successfully completed the Moscow-Yemelyanovo part of the route. At 22:03 (17:03 Moscow time), the Il-18 took off from Yemelyanovo with 64 adults and 11 children as passengers; two passengers were not registered. After completing takeoff the flight maintained an altitude of 8,000 meters. At 22:37 local time (17:37 Moscow time) the flight crew switched communications to Bratsk air traffic control. Weather conditions were reported to be normal at the time. The aircraft was established to be at a distance of 234 kilometers from the airport at a bearing of 270° degrees. The crew confirmed receiving the information, stating that they were at an altitude of 8,000 meters and flying at 780 km/h, and expected to fly past Bratsk airport at Bratsk 18:06.

At 18:38:38, the airliner was forced into sudden descent. The situation onboard evolved into a full-blown emergency at 22:41:28. When the flight was at an altitude of 3000 meters, air traffic controllers detected a short unintelligible transmission at 22:43:12 from the flight, determined by investigators to be most likely about the state of the aircraft. The crew unintentionally pitched the aircraft further down to the point of overspeed while trying to correct the pitch of the aircraft. The "fasten seat belt" sign was turned on and at one point the airliner was inverted. At an altitude of 1000 meters and at a speed of 890 km/h, the airliner began to break apart, and at 17:43:47 the airliner crashed 13 kilometers away from Parchum and 165 kilometers west of Bratsk airport into the taiga. The only survivor was a young soldier found alive but injured at the crash site.

Causes

The investigation hypothesized that an emergency onboard caused the crew to descend, and in doing so control of the aircraft was lost when engine number three did not perform as expected. Examination of the left wing showed evidence of a fuel leak, which was presumed to have caused an onboard fire; that part of the wing was not equipped with fire detection or fire extinguishing systems. However, the commission responsible for the investigation later rejected the claim of an in-flight fire in the left wing caused by a leak, stating that the exact cause of the emergency is unknown.

References

Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin 18D CCCP-74252 Parchum, Chunsky District, Irkutsk Region". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
"Il-18D c/n 187010601". Scramble Soviet Transport Database.
"Plane crash IL-18D in the district of Bratsk. 1968". en.avia.pro. Retrieved 2017-07-12.

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in 1968 (1968)
Jan 6 Aeroflot Flight 1668Jan 21 Thule Air Base B-52 crashFeb 7 Indian Air Force An-12 crashFeb 16 Civil Air Transport Flight 10Feb 29 Aeroflot Flight 15Mar 6 Air France Flight 212Mar 9 Sainte-Marie Douglas DC-6 crashMar 24 Aer Lingus Flight 712Mar 27 Yuri Gagarin's MiG-15 crashMar 27 Ozark Air Lines Flight 965Apr 5 Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incidentApr 8 BOAC Flight 712Apr 20 South African Airways Flight 228May 3 Braniff Flight 352May 12 Kham Duc C-130 shootdownMay 22 Los Angeles Airways Flight 841May 28 Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892Jul 1 Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253AJul 3 BKS Air Transport Flight C.6845Jul 23 El Al Flight 426 hijackingAug 14 Los Angeles Airways Flight 417Sep 11 Air France Flight 1611Oct 25 Northeast Airlines Flight 946Nov 22 Japan Air Lines Flight 2Nov 24 Pan Am Flight 281Dec 2 Wien Consolidated Airlines Flight 55Dec 12 Pan Am Flight 217Dec 24 Allegheny Airlines Flight 736Dec 26 El Al Flight 253Dec 26 Pan Am Flight 799Dec 27 North Central Airlines Flight 458Dec 27 Ozark Air Lines Flight 982Dec 31 MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750
1967 ◄ ► 1969

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1968 (1968)

Jan 6 Aeroflot Flight 1668Jan 21 Thule Air Base B-52 crashFeb 7 Indian Air Force An-12 crashFeb 16 Civil Air Transport Flight 10Feb 29 Aeroflot Flight 15Mar 6 Air France Flight 212Mar 9 Sainte-Marie Douglas DC-6 crashMar 24 Aer Lingus Flight 712Mar 27 Yuri Gagarin's MiG-15 crashMar 27 Ozark Air Lines Flight 965Apr 5 Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incidentApr 8 BOAC Flight 712Apr 20 South African Airways Flight 228May 3 Braniff Flight 352May 12 Kham Duc C-130 shootdownMay 22 Los Angeles Airways Flight 841May 28 Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892Jul 1 Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253AJul 3 BKS Air Transport Flight C.6845Jul 23 El Al Flight 426 hijackingAug 14 Los Angeles Airways Flight 417Sep 11 Air France Flight 1611Oct 25 Northeast Airlines Flight 946Nov 22 Japan Air Lines Flight 2Nov 24 Pan Am Flight 281Dec 2 Wien Consolidated Airlines Flight 55Dec 12 Pan Am Flight 217Dec 24 Allegheny Airlines Flight 736Dec 26 El Al Flight 253Dec 26 Pan Am Flight 799Dec 27 North Central Airlines Flight 458Dec 27 Ozark Air Lines Flight 982Dec 31 MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750

1967 ◄ ► 1969

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union in the 1960s
1960	Aeroflot Flight 315 (February 1960) U-2 incident (May 1960) Aeroflot Flight 207 (June 1960) RB-47 shootdown incident (July 1960) Aeroflot Flight 036 (August 1960) Austrian Airlines Flight 901 (September 1960)
1961	Aeroflot Flight 068 (March 1961) Aeroflot Flight 245 (17 December 1961) Mineralnye Vody Aeroflot Il-18 crash (31 December 1961)
1962	Aeroflot Flight 902 (June 1962) Aeroflot Flight 415 (July 1962) Aeroflot Flight 03 (3 September 1962) Aeroflot Flight 213 (18 September 1962)
1963	Aeroflot Flight 191 (March 1963) Aeroflot Flight 25 (April 1963) Aeroflot Flight 012 (July 1963) Aeroflot Flight 366 (21 August 1963) Aeroflot Flight 663 (24 August 1963)
1964	Aeroflot Flight 721 (September 1964)
1965	Aeroflot Flight 101/X-20 (January 1965) Aeroflot Flight 542 (7 March 1965) Aeroflot Flight 513 (8 March 1965) Khanty-Mansiysk Aeroflot An-24 crash (20 March 1965) Aeroflot Flight 99 (November 1965)
1966	Aeroflot Flight 302 (16 February 1966) Aeroflot Flight 065 (17 February 1966) Aeroflot Flight 2723 (April 1966)
1967	Aeroflot Flight 5003 (January 1967) Aeroflot Flight 2230 (November 1967) Aeroflot Flight L-51 (December 1967)
1968	Aeroflot Flight 1668 (January 1968) Aeroflot Flight 15 (February 1968) Death of Yuri Gagarin (March 1968) Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253A (July 1968)
1969	Yukhnov mid-air collision (23 June 1969) Aeroflot Flight F-28 (28 June 1969) Aeroflot Flight N-826 (3 August 1969) Aeroflot Flight 1770 (26 August 1969)
1950–1959 ◄ 1960–1969 ► 1970–1979

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