ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 330521
| Date: | Thursday 4 May 1972 |
| Time: | 23:34 |
| Type: |  Yakovlev Yak-40 |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot, East Siberia Civil Aviation Directorate |
| Registration: | CCCP-87778 |
| MSN: | 9040314 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1970 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 1667 hours |
| Cycles: | 2249 flights |
| Engine model: | Ivchenko AI-25 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 18 / Occupants: 18 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 1,2 km from Bratsk Airport (BTK) -
 Russia
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Irkutsk Airport (IKT/UIII) |
| Bratsk Airport (BTK/UIBB) |
The Yak-40 took off from Irkutsk Airport (IKT) at 22:29. While on approach the crew were given the weather information that was current at 23:15. The controller had not received more recent weather information, despite his requests. He knew the weather had deteriorated but he passed the older weather info on to the crew. On finals the flight entered an area with a wet snow storm, 1000 m visibility severe buffeting and wind gusts of 10-14 m/s. An intense downdraft caused the plane to contact trees. The airplane crashed and burned.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
airdisaster.ru
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