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1981 aviation accident Not to be confused with Aeroméxico Flight 498.

Aeroflot Flight 498
Accident
An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-14M, similar to the one involved in the crash
Date	14 June 1981 (1981-06-14)
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain due to crew error
Site	Holy Nose Peninsula in Lake Baikal, 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Ust-Barguzin, Barguzinsky District, Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian SSR, USSR 53°37′N 108°44′E / 53.617°N 108.733°E / 53.617; 108.733
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Ilyushin Il-14M
Operator	Aeroflot
Registration	CCCP-41838
Flight origin	Severomuysk
Stopover	Nizhneangarsk Airport
Destination	Baikal International Airport
Occupants	48
Passengers	44
Crew	4
Fatalities	48
Survivors	0

Aeroflot Flight 498 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Severomuysk to Ulan-Ude that crashed near Lake Baikal on 14 June 1981 en route to its planned stop at Nizhneangarsk Airport, Nizhneangarsk. All 44 passengers—including 13 children—and 4 crew members on board were killed, and the aircraft was destroyed. It remains the deadliest crash involving an Ilyushin Il-14.

Aircraft

CCCP-41838 was an Ilyushin Il-14M manufactured on 1 January 1957, with 16,185 total air hours and 18,427 cycles. The aircraft was equipped with engines registered as B B 29471633 252073177. At the time of the crash it was being operated by the East Siberia Civil Aviation Directorate of Ulan-Ude under Aeroflot.

Flight description

The crew consisted of Captain Alex T Mordovia, co-pilot Alexander Lobsonovich Kyrmygenov, and Flight Engineer Alexander Zharnikov. Aeroflot Flight 498 was originally scheduled to fly from Severomuysk to Baikal International Airport in Ulan-Ude, with a planned stopover at Nizhneangarsk Airport in Nizhneangarsk. The flight had exceeded its takeoff weight capacity by 186 kilograms (410 lb). The aircraft left from Severomuysk at 09:41 MSK.

Due to bad weather, Nizhneangarsk Airport closed, and the crew rerouted the aircraft to land at an airfield in nearby Ust-Barguzin. Mountains surrounding Lake Baikal were at that time obscured by the cloud cover, and visibility was only about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) with rain and winds of up to 5 metres per second (11 mph). Foggy conditions and low visibility were likewise reported on Holy Nose Peninsula, what would later become the aircraft's crash site. At 10:30 MSK, almost an hour after takeoff, the crew reported a nearby flight, and at 10:41 began communications with the air tower at Ulan-Barguzin in preparation for landing. Conditions around the Ust-Barguzin airfield were slightly more favorable than had been projected at the aircraft's height. At 11:02 the aircraft called in to report their location, but in violation of air rules, the crew instead called the air control tower at Ulan-Ude and did not report back to Ust-Barguzin. Additionally, they did not report their location or weather conditions. The aircraft's data finder, ARP-6, was found to be unstable, about which the Ust-Barguzin air tower warned Flight 498 well in advance. Due to the faulty equipment, the flight deviated to the right from its course about 32 kilometres (20 mi). At 11:16, the aircraft descended from a height of 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) to 2,700 metres (8,900 ft).Shortly before the crash, the flight crew intentionally misinformed the flight deck that the airfield was in sight, and the air tower gave them visual instructions on landing; the crew accepted these instructions at 11:21, without actually being in sight of the air field. The pilot then mistook the Holy Nose Peninsula for the location of the air field.

At 11:22 MSK, the aircraft crashed 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) above sea level on the side of a mountain located on the Holy Nose Peninsula in Lake Baikal, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the Ust-Barguzin airfield. The flight crashed at a 10-degree angle to the left and an angle of trajectory of 2 or 3 degrees. All 48 people—44 passengers (including 13 children) and 4 crew members—were killed during the crash, and the aircraft was a total loss. Much of the equipment was destroyed in the crash, making the exact cause of the accident difficult to pinpoint. Among this equipment was the radio compass ARC-5, making its efficiency impossible to determine. Ultimately, the crash was attributed to passive piloting and pilot error.

References

^ "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. 21 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
^ "Plane Crash IL-14 BC CAA Holy Nose Peninsula (East of Lake Baikal)". Avia.Pro. Avia Pro. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
Richard Kebabjian. "Accident Details". Plane Crash Info. PlaneCrashInfo.com. Retrieved 24 March 2016.

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Feb 7 Pushkin Tu-104 crashMar 2 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326Mar 28 Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 206May 2 Aer Lingus Flight 164May 7 Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 901Jun 14 Aeroflot Flight 498Jun 26 Dan-Air Flight 240Jul 18 Armenia mid-air collisionJul 20 Somali Airlines Flight 40Jul 27 Aeroméxico Flight 230Jul 31 Panamanian Air Force Twin Otter crashAug 9 Barrington Tops Cessna 210 disappearanceAug 13 G-ASWI ditchingAug 19 Gulf of Sidra incidentAug 22 Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103Aug 24 Aeroflot Flight 811Aug 26 Aeropesca Colombia Flight 221Sep 18 Zheleznogorsk mid-air collisionSep 22 Eastern Air Lines Flight 935Sep 29 Indian Airlines Flight 423Sep 29 Iranian Air Force C-130 crashOct 6 NLM CityHopper Flight 431Nov 8 Aeroméxico Flight 110Nov 17 Aeroflot Flight 3603Dec 1 Inex-Adria Flight 1308
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Feb 7 Pushkin Tu-104 crashMar 2 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326Mar 28 Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 206May 2 Aer Lingus Flight 164May 7 Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 901Jun 14 Aeroflot Flight 498Jun 26 Dan-Air Flight 240Jul 18 Armenia mid-air collisionJul 20 Somali Airlines Flight 40Jul 27 Aeroméxico Flight 230Jul 31 Panamanian Air Force Twin Otter crashAug 9 Barrington Tops Cessna 210 disappearanceAug 13 G-ASWI ditchingAug 19 Gulf of Sidra incidentAug 22 Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103Aug 24 Aeroflot Flight 811Aug 26 Aeropesca Colombia Flight 221Sep 18 Zheleznogorsk mid-air collisionSep 22 Eastern Air Lines Flight 935Sep 29 Indian Airlines Flight 423Sep 29 Iranian Air Force C-130 crashOct 6 NLM CityHopper Flight 431Nov 8 Aeroméxico Flight 110Nov 17 Aeroflot Flight 3603Dec 1 Inex-Adria Flight 1308

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and 1990s
1980	Aeroflot Flight Sh-88 (June 1980) Aeroflot Flight 4225 (July 1980)
1981	Pushkin Tu-104 crash (February 1981) Aeroflot Flight 498 (June 1981) Armenia mid-air collision (July 1981) Aeroflot Flight 811 (August 1981) Zheleznogorsk mid-air collision (September 1981) Aeroflot Flight 3603 (November 1981)
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