Last updated: 22 October 2021
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| 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
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
