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Aeroflot Flight 1770
The 1969 Vnukovo Airport Il-18 crash was a plane crash at Vnukovo International Airport, Vnukovo Airport on 26 August 1969. Of the 101 people on board, 16 were killed. Aircraft The Ilyushin Il-18, Il-18B aircraft, with tail number 75708 (factory number 189001705, serial number 017-05), was manufactured by the Znamya Truda Factory, MMZ "Banner of Labor" on 26 December 1959. By 23 January 1960, the aircraft entered service with the 235th Separate Aviation Detachment. On 23 July 1961, it was used to transport the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, to Egypt. On 12 October 1961, the aircraft was transferred to the Polar Aviation Administration. On 11 January 1968, the aircraft was assigned to the Vnukovo Airlines, Vnukovo Aviation Detachment of the Moscow Civil Aviation Administration. By the time of the crash, the aircraft had logged a total of 12,023 flight hours and 4,367 landings. Flight The aircraft was operating flight 1770 on the route Sochi—Moscow—Norilsk. It was piloted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilyushin Il-18
The Ilyushin Il-18 (; NATO reporting name: Coot) is a large turboprop airliner that first flew in 1957 and became one of the best known Soviet aircraft of its era. The Il-18 was one of the world's principal airliners for several decades and was widely exported. Due to the aircraft's durability, many examples achieved over 45,000 flight hours and the type remains operational in both military and (to a lesser extent) civilian capacities. The Il-18's successor was the longer-range Ilyushin Il-62. Design and development Two Soviet Union, Soviet aircraft shared the designation Ilyushin Il-18. The first Il-18 was a propeller-driven airliner of 1946 but after a year of test flights that programme was abandoned. In the early 1950s with a need to replace older designs and increase the size of the Soviet civil transport fleet, a Soviet Council of Ministers directive was issued on 30 December 1955 to the chief designers Kuznetsov and Ivchenko to develop new turboprop engines and to Ilyus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
