| Status: | |
| Date: | Tuesday 8 March 1994 |
| Time: | 14:54 |
| Type: |  Ilyushin Il-86 |
| Operator: | Aeroflot Russian International Airlines |
| Registration: | RA-86119 |
| MSN: | 51483209087 |
| First flight: | 1989 |
| Engines: | 4 Kuznetsov NK-86 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Ground casualties: | Fatalities: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Aircraft fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) ( India)
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| Phase: | Standing (STD) |
| Nature: | - |
| Departure airport: | - |
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A Sahara India Airlines Boeing 737, VT-SIA, was engaged in a training flight with an instructor and 3 trainee pilots. Five circuits and landings were completed uneventfully. During the sixth touch-and-go exercise, after the take off from runway 28, the aircraft had climbed to 400-500 feet when it banked left and crashed at the International Terminal Apron. The wreckage of aircraft hit an Aeroflot Ilyushin 86 aircraft parked on Bay No. 45 as a result of which it also caught fire. Two Aeroflot employees, a Russian ground engineer and an airport worker were killed inside the Il-86. One employee of an airport oil company was killed on the tarmac.
The Ilyushin 86, RA-86119, had made an unscheduled diversion to Delhi due to technical problems. The airplane had been repaired and fully fuelled (52 tons).
Classification:
Damaged on the ground
Sources:
» Civil aviation aircraft accident summary for the year 1994 (DGAC India)Photos
accident date: 08-03-1994
type: Ilyushin Il-86
registration: CCCP-86119
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