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Date: | vendredi 11 mai 1973 |
Heure: | 04:37 |
Type/Sous-type: |  Iliouchine Il-18B |
Compagnie: | Aeroflot / Azerbaijan |
Immatriculation: | CCCP-75687 |
Numéro de série: | 189001202 |
Année de Fabrication: | 1959 |
Heures de vol: | 21663 |
Cycles: | 11787 |
Equipage: | victimes: 8 / à bord: 8 |
Passagers: | victimes: 55 / à bord: 55 |
Total: | victimes: 63 / à bord: 63 |
Dégats de l'appareil: | Détruit |
Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Lieu de l'accident: | 84 km (52.5 milles) S of Semipalatinsk ( Kazakhstan)
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Phase de vol: | En vol (ENR) |
Nature: | Transport de Passagers Nat. |
Aéroport de départ: | Tashkent Airport (TAS/UTTT), Ouzbékistan |
Aéroport de destination: | Novosibirsk-Severny (North) Airport (UNCC), Fédération de Russie |
Numéro de vol: | 6551 |
Détails:An Il-18 passenger plane CCCP-75687, was destroyed in an accident 84 km south of Semipalatinsk. All 55 passengers and eight crew members were killed.
Aeroflot Flight 6551 departed Tashkent Airport (TAS) at 23:25 Moscow time on May 10. The airplane was bound for Novosibirsk-Severny (North) Airport.
The airplane climbed to the cruising altitude of 9000 m. At 01:22 the flight descended to 7800 metres. About 01:37 Moscow time (04:37 local time), the flight disappeared from radar. Burning wreckage was located in the steppe 84 km south of Semipalatinsk. The outer parts of the right wing and the left stabiliser as well as parts of the right stabiliser were found at a distance of some 3.5 km from the crash site.
It was established that the airplane had disintegrated in midair possibly during an emergency descent. The reason for the emergency descent could not be established.
Suddenly aircraft entered a rapid descent. It broke up at an altitude of 5000 m and crashed.
Sources:
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Soviet Transports»
airdisaster.ru
Photos
Plan
Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposée destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Tashkent Airport et Novosibirsk-Severny (North) Airport est de 1821 km (1138 miles).
Accident location: Approximate; accuracy within a few kilometers.
Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tel qu'ils sont connus à ce jour.