ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333923
| Date: | Friday 23 October 1959 |
| Time: | 22:10 |
| Type: |  Ilyushin Il-14P |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot / Azerbaijan |
| Registration: | CCCP-41806 |
| MSN: | 6341709 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1956 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4945 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 28 / Occupants: 29 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 1,4 km from Moskva-Vnukovo Airport (VKO) -
 Russia
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Stalingrad Airport (VOG/URWW) |
| Moskva-Vnukovo Airport (VKO/UUWW) |
The IL-14 operated on a passenger service from Baku, Azerbaijan to Moscow-Vnukovo Airport with en route stops at Makhachkala, Astrakhan and Stalingrad (now named Volgograd).
The flight left Stalingrad at 14:20 but after almost two hours in flight, the crew were told that Vnukovo Airport was closed due to poor weather. They elected to return to Stalingrad. At 18:50 the crew took off for the second flight to Vnukovo. Weather at Vnukovo was still marginal with a cloud base at 70 m and a visibility of 1,5 / 2 km. The crew of another IL-14, reported the bottom edge of the cloud cover at 50-60 m. At an altitude of 900 m the flight was cleared to approach runway 2. The airplane descended until striking trees located 1400 m short of the runway. It crashed into a forest and burned. One passenger survived the accident.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
airdisaster.ru
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