Date: | Tuesday 2 January 1979 |
Time: | 15:21 |
Type: | Ilyushin Il-14FKM |
Owner/operator: | Aeroflot, Central Region Civil Aviation Directorate |
Registration: | CCCP-04193 |
MSN: | 7343506 |
Year of manufacture: | 1957 |
Total airframe hrs: | 19494 hours |
Cycles: | 12705 flights |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 14 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Molodezhnaya -
Antarctica
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Molodezhnaya Ice Station |
Destination airport: | Mawson Station |
Narrative:The Ilyushin 14FKM operated transportation flights for participants of the 24th Soviet Antarctic expedition.
The ski-equipped IL-14 took off from the ice runway at Molodezhnaya Ice Station.
At an altitude of 70-80 meters above the ground the plane suddenly descended in a left bank until it impacted a glacier.
Investigation revealed that the airplane was caught in a wind shear.
Sources:
Soviet Transports Dmitriy Yertsov
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