Aeroflot Flight 2230
Accident
An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-18, similar to the accident aircraft
Date	16 November 1967 (1967-11-16)
Summary	Engine failure and fire followed by an electrical failure of cockpit instruments
Site	2.9 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
Passengers	99
Crew	8
Fatalities	107
Survivors	0

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]

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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Катастрофа Ил-18В Уральского УГА в а/п Кольцово (Свердловск) [Il-18V crash of the Ural Civil Aviation Administration at Koltsovo airport (Sverdlovsk)]. Airdisaster.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 7 December 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Ильюшин Ил-18В Бортовой №: CCCP-75538" [Ilyushin Il-18V Side number: CCCP-75538] (in Russian). Russianplanes.net. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
^ Gero, David (1996). Aviation Disasters Second Edition. Patrick Stephens Limited. p. 79.

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Mar 9

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Mar 30

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Oct 12

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