List of accidents and incidents involving the Ilyushin Il-18

Accidents and incidents involving the Ilyushin Il-18

Data from:Aviation Safety Network Il-18[1]

1958

7 May
A Soviet Air Force Il-18A (002 red, c/n 187000104) crashed near Sheremetyevo Airport after an engine failed while on a test flight, killing all 10 on board in the first loss of an Il-18. The aircraft was operating for Aviatsionnaya Krasnoznamyonnaya Diviziya Osobogo Naznacheniya (AKDON, Red Banner Special Task Aviation Division).

1959

2 September
An Aeroflot/Moscow Ilyushin Il-18B, CCCP-75676 (c/n 189000905), from Vnukovo Airport was written off after suffering structural damage in a cumulonimbus cloud; all 56 passengers and crew survived.

1960

27 April
An Aeroflot/Ural Il-18A, CCCP-75648 (c/n 188000402), crashed on landing at Koltsovo Airport while on a training flight due to crew error, killing one of five crew on board.
17 August
Aeroflot Flight 36, an Il-18B (CCCP-75705, c/n 189001702), exploded in mid-air and crashed near Kiev after an in-flight fire, killing all 34 passengers and crew on board.
26 December
An Aeroflot/Ulyanovsk Flight School Il-18A (CCCP-75651, c/n 188000405) lost control and crashed near Vostochny Airport en route from Kuybyshev Airport while on a training flight due to tail icing, killing all 17 passengers and crew on board.

1961

28 March
ČSA Flight 511, an Il-18V (OK-OAD, c/n 180002102), crashed near Gräfenberg, Bavaria in West Germany. All 52 passengers and crew on board were killed.
22 June
An Aeroflot/Moscow Il-18B, CCCP-75672 (c/n 189000901), en route from Vnukovo Airport to Adler/Sochi Airport, suffered a generator failure on no.3 engine and subsequent fire, force-landing in a field near Bogoroditsk, Tula Oblast with no casualties among the 97 occupants.
12 July
ČSA Flight 511, an Il-18V (OK-PAF, c/n 181002904), crashed near Casablanca, Morocco, killing all 72 on board; the cause was not determined, but weather may have been a factor.
13 August
An Aeroflot/Moscow Il-18B, CCCP-75653 (c/n 188000502) overshot the runway at Riga Central Airport, Latvia, with no casualties.
17 December
Aeroflot Flight 245, an Il-18B (CCCP-75654, c/n 188000503), went into a dive and crashed near Chebotovka, Rostov Oblast after the flight engineer accidentally deployed the flaps, killing all 59 passengers and crew on board.
31 December
An Aeroflot/Armenia Il-18V (CCCP-75757, c/n 181003202) crashed near Mineralnye Vody Airport while attempting a go-around during a charter flight, killing 32 of 119 on board. The aircraft was one of two sent to pick up people who had been stranded at Tbilisi due to bad weather.

1962

24 February
A TAROM Il-18V (YR-IMB, c/n 181003702) landed in the sea off Paphos, Cyprus, after all 4 engines failed, perhaps due to fuel filter icing, (see List of airline flights that required gliding).
23 November
Malev Hungarian Airlines Flight 355, an Il-18V (HA-MOD, c/n 180002002) stalled for reasons unknown and crashed near Le Bourget Airport, killing all 21 passengers and crew on board.
29 November
An Aeroflot/Moscow Ilyushin Il-18V, CCCP-75843 (c/n 182005303), was reported to have crashed on this date, with no further information available.

1963

26 February
An Aeroflot Il-18V (CCCP-75732, c/n 181002601) force-landed on the ice of the Shelikhov Gulf near Bukhta Yemlinskaya due to double engine failure, killing all 10 passengers and crew on board; three initially survived the crash, but later died of hypothermia in the subzero temperatures.
5 March
Aeroflot Flight 191, an Il-18V (CCCP-75765, c/n 181003404), crashed short of the runway at Ashgabat Airport due to poor visibility caused by a dust storm, killing 16 of 55 on board.
4 April
Aeroflot Flight 25, an Il-18V (CCCP-75866, c/n 183005901), crashed near Urakhcha, Tatarstan after the propeller pitch control mechanism on an engine malfunctioned, killing all 67 passengers and crew on board.
10 November
An Aeroflot/Moscow Il-18B, CCCP-75686 (c/n. 189001201), was damaged beyond repair at Kuibyshev Airport.

1964

2 July
An Aeroflot/Moscow Il-18B (CCCP-75661, c/n 188000605) was damaged beyond repair at Krasnodar Airport (KRR), Russia.
3 August
An Aeroflot/Moscow Il-18V (CCCP-75824, c/n 182004903) was damaged beyond repair after landing short and the undercarriage collapsing at Magadan Airport.
2 September
Aeroflot Flight 721, an Il-18V (CCCP-75531, c/n 183006904), struck a hillside near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport after the crew descended too soon, killing 87 of 93 on board.
19 October
A Soviet Air Force Il-18V (CCCP-75568, c/n 183005704) struck Mount Avala while on approach to Batajnica Air Base, killing all 33 passengers and crew on board.

1965

4 January
Aeroflot Flight 101, an Il-18B (CCCP-75685, c/n 189001105), crashed short of the runway at Alma-Ata Airport in poor visibility, killing 64 of 103 on board.
23 December
An Aeroflot/Moscow Il-18B (CCCP-75688, c/n 189001203) suffered severe structural damage near Magadan, whilst en route, after a dive from 8,000 m (26,000 ft).

1966

27 March
A Cubana Il-18B (CU-T831, c/n 182005202) from Santiago-Antonio Maceo Airport to José Martí International Airport was hijacked by the flight engineer, demanding to be flown to the United States. Two people were killed during the incident.
7 July
A Cubana Il-18 flying from Antonio Maceo Airport (SCU/MUCU) to José Martí International Airport, was hijacked by 9 hijackers, including the pilot, and flown to Jamaica.
10 July
A Cubana Ilyushin Il-18V (CU-T830, c/n 182004905) crashed near Cienfuegos; no further information available.
27 August
Aeroflot Flight 3772, an Il-18V (CCCP-75552, c/n 184007404) flying from Talaghy Airport to Shosseynaya Airport, overran the runway after an aborted take-off with the rudder gust-lock engaged.
22 November
Aeroflot Flight X-19, an Il-18B (CCCP-75665, c/n 188000704), left the runway and crashed on takeoff from Alma-Ata Airport, killing two of 68 on board.
24 November
TABSO Flight 101 crashed near Bratislava; killing all 82 passengers and crew on board; the cause was not determined, but crew error was blamed. The crash remains Slovakia's worst air disaster.

1967

4 January
A Hâng Không Viêtnam Ilyushin Il-18D (c/n 186008804) from Nanking Airport was reported to have crashed.
6 April
An Aeroflot/235 Aviation Det. Il-18V (CCCP-75563, c/n 184007802) was being ferried from Domodedovo Airport to Vnukovo Airport when it crashed on climb-out, killing all eight crew on board.
9 July
An Air Guinee Il-18V (3X-GAB, c/n 181003703) on a flight to Praha-Ruzyne International Airport in Czechoslovakia, diverted to Casablanca-Anfa Airport, Morocco due to bad weather, but hit a building on landing and was damaged beyond repair, with no casualties among the 102 occupants.
5 September
ČSA Flight 523, an Il-18D (OK-WAI, c/n 187009705), crashed shortly after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. Thirty-seven of the 69 passengers and crew aboard were killed; the cause was never determined.
16 November
Aeroflot Flight 2230, an Il-18V (CCCP-75538, c/n 184007002), lost control at 200 m and crashed on climb-out from Koltsovo Airport after an engine fire, killing all 8 crew and 99 passengers.

1968

9 January
An Aeroflot/Northern Il-18V (CCCP-75519, c/n 183006702) was damaged beyond repair when it landed 700 m (770 yd) short of the runway at Karaganda Airport.
24 February
An Aeroflot/Ural Il-18V (CCCP-75560, c/n 184007704) overran the runway at Donetsk Airport and was damaged beyond repair.
29 February
Aeroflot Flight 15, an Il-18D (CCCP-74252, c/n 187010601), broke apart at 10,000 feet and crashed near Parchum, Irkutsk due to a possible fuel leak and fire, killing 83 of 84 on board.
22 April
An Aeroflot Il-18V (CCCP-75526, c/n 183006804) struck power lines and crashed near Domodedovo Airport while on a training flight, killing all five crew on board.
3 September
A Bulair Il-18E (LZ-BEG, c/n 186009101) crashed near Bourgas Airport after the crew deviated from flight rules to attempt a visual approach in bad weather, killing 47 of 89 on board.
20 October
An Aeroflot/West Siberia Il-18D (CCCP-75436, c/n 186009505) on a scheduled flight from Novosibirsk-Tolmachevo Airport (OVB/UNNN) to Yakutsk Airport, diverted to Krasnoyarsk Airport, due to weather. The aircraft landed hard 200 m (220 yd) short of the runway causing the fuselage to break and a fire to erupt. No casualties were reported but the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

1969

20 March
A United Arab Airlines Il-18 crashed while attempting to land at Aswan International Airport. One hundred of the 105 passengers and crew on board were killed.
26 August
Aeroflot Flight 1770, an Il-18B (CCCP-75708, c/n 189001705) landed on its belly at Vnukovo Airport after the crew forgot to lower the landing gear, killing 16 of 102 on board.
10 September
Aeroflot Flight 93, an Il-18V (CCCP-75791, c/n 181004005) on a flight from Krasnoyarsk Airport to Yakutsk Airport, was written off at Yakutsk after striking an ambulance crossing the runway.
11 December
An Aeroflot/Moscow Il-18B (CCCP-75669, c/n 188000803) was written off after flying in heavy turbulence.

1970

6 February
Aeroflot Flight U-45, an Il-18V (CCCP-75798), struck a mountain en route to Samarkand from Tashkent, killing 92 of 106 on board.
5 June
An Aeroflot/Uzbekistan Il-18V (CCCP-75533, c/n 180002502) crashed on take-off at Samarkand Airport with a locked rudder.
23 August
A Soviet Government Il-18V (CCCP-75823) was written off after a hard landing at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport.
16 October
An Aeroflot/Armenia Il-18V (CCCP-75578, c/n 185008102) was written off at Simferopol Airport, Ukraine after a hard landing due to hydraulic system failure.
31 December
Aeroflot Flight 3012, an Il-18V (CCCP-75773), crashed on climb-out from Pulkovo Airport after the crew forgot to select the flaps before takeoff, killing six of 86 on board.

1971

18 January
A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Il-18D (LZ-BED, c/n 186009002) crashed on approach to Kloten Airport after the pilot attempted to correct the glide path, killing 45 of 47 on board.
21 January
An Il-18B (CCCP-75727, c/n 180002303) operated by GosNII GVF (Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - state scientific test institute for civil air fleet), was written off at Rostov Airport.
22 August
A United Arab Airlines Il-18 flying from Cairo International Airport to Amman-Marka International Airport was hijacked by a lone hijacker who demanded to be taken to Israel.
28 August
Malev Flight 731, an Il-18 (HA-MOC, c/n 181002903), crashed into the sea near Copenhagen while executing an instrument approach. The main cause of the accident was a microburst, a particularly dangerous and unpredictable meteorological phenomenon. Twenty-three passengers and the crew of 9 died, two passengers survived. The captain of the aircraft was Dezső Szentgyörgyi, a World War II flying ace of the Royal Hungarian Air Force, who was due to retire less than 3 weeks after the date of the accident.
21 December
A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Il-18V (LZ-BES, c/n 185008104) crashed shortly after take-off from Sofia-Vrazhdebna Airport, Bulgaria, en route to Algiers-Dar el Beida Airport, Algeria. Twenty-eight of the 73 occupants were killed.
23 December
A Malev Il-18D (HA-MOI, c/n 187010002) on a scheduled flight from Nicosia Airport, Cyprus, to Damascus International Airport, Syria, made contact with a 759 m (2,490 ft) hill whilst on approach to Damascus. Control of the aircraft was retained and a safe landing was made.

1972

26 August
An Aeroflot/Northern Il-18B (CCCP-75663, c/n 188000702) was damaged beyond repair after it crashed on landing in fog at Talaghy Airport.
31 August
Aeroflot Flight 558, an Il-18V (CCCP-74298), crashed near Smelovskiy, Chelyabinsk Oblast after a loss of control following a fire in the baggage compartment, killing all 101 passengers and crew on board.
1 October
Aeroflot Flight 1036 (an Il-18V, CCCP-75507), crashed in the Black Sea shortly after takeoff from Adler/Sochi Airport, killing all 109 passengers and crew on board.

1973

29 January
EgyptAir Flight 741 crashed in the Kyrenia mountain range, Cyprus while on approach to Nicosia International Airport, killing all 37 passengers and crew on board.
24 February
An Aeroflot/Tajikistan Il-18V (CCCP-75712, c/n. 189001803) on a domestic scheduled passenger service from Dushanbe Airport to Leninabad Airport, Tajikistan, entered a spin after a high-speed stall during hard maneuvering, breaking up at 2,000 m (6,600 ft), killing all 79 occupants.
3 March
Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 307 (an Il-18, LZ-BEM) lost control and crashed near Skhodnya, Moscow while on approach to Sheremetyevo International Airport, killing all 25 passengers and crew on board; tail icing was suspected.
11 May
Aeroflot Flight 6551 (an Il-18B, CCCP-75687) crashed 53 mi S of Semipalatinsk due to an in-flight breakup following an unexplained descent, killing all 63 passengers and crew on board.

1974

24 April
An Aeroflot/Uzbekistan Il-18E (CCCP-75405, c/n 186009005) suffered a bird-strike on No.1 engine at take-off from Tashkent-Yuzhny Airport (TAS/UTTT), Uzbekistan. The aircraft was unable to climb and crashed killing one passenger out of 115 occupants.
27 April
An Aeroflot Il-18V (CCCP-75559) crashed shortly after takeoff from Pulkovo Airport due to loss of control following an uncontained engine failure, killing all 109 passengers and crew on board.
9 May
An Aeroflot/Ural Il-18V (CCCP-75425, c/n 181003403) on a domestic scheduled passenger flight to Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport, Ukraine, from Sverdlovsk, was damaged beyond repair after landing on a short runway, over-running into a ravine.
11 August
An Air Mali Il-18V (TZ-ABE, c/n 181003304) on an unscheduled Haj passenger flight from Bamako Airport, Mali to Niamey Airport, Niger, was damaged beyond repair in a forced landing after a navigational error. The aircraft ran out of fuel and force-landed near Linoghin, Burkina Faso, killing 47 of the 60 occupants.
9 December
A Tarom (but operating for EgyptAir) Il-18D YR-IMK (c/n 186009104) from Jeddah International Airport to Cairo International Airport on a training flight, crashed into the Red Sea killing the 9 crew members.

1975

15 January
Malev Flight 801 (an Il-18V, HA-MOH) was being ferried from East Berlin to Budapest when it crashed on approach to Ferihegy Airport due to weather, poor visibility, poor CRM and possible spatial disorientation, killing the nine crew.
12 December
An Aeroflot/Moscow Il-18V (CCCP-75801, c/n 182004301) was damaged beyond repair after undershooting the runway at Krasnoyarsk Airport.

1976

30 January
An Aeroflot/Kyrgyzstan Il-18V (CCCP-75558, c/n 184007505) on a training flight, crashed near Frunze Airport, after the No.3 engine failed to relight after un-feathering, during a go-around with no.3 and no.4 engines shut down. All 6 crew-members were killed.
6 March
Aeroflot Flight 909 (an Il-18E, CCCP-75408, c/n 186009201) crashed near Verkhnyaya Khava, Russia due to loss of control following an electrical failure, killing all 111 passengers and crew in the worst-ever accident involving the Il-18.
28 July
ČSA Flight 001 crashed during a flight from Prague Ruzyně Airport; the no.3 engine malfunctioned. Whilst shutting down the No.3 engine, the crew inadvertently shut down No.4 engine (which was on the same wing as engine 3). This caused the aircraft to veer to the right during the emergency landing at M. R. Štefánik Airport in Bratislava, crashing into the Zlaté Piesky lake, killing 70 passengers and 6 out of 9 crew members. Five crew members were saved right after the crash but two died later in hospital due to kerosene poisoning.[2]
28 October
A CSA Il-18 with 105 occupants on a domestic flight from Praha-Ruzyne International Airport to Bratislava-Ivanka Airport was hijacked and flown to Munich in West Germany where the hijacker surrendered.
30 October
An Aeroflot/Uzbekistan Il-18V (CCCP-75575, c/n. 185008004) overshot the runway at Tashkent Airport and was damaged beyond repair.

1977

2 January
A CSA Il-18V (OK-NAA, c/n 189001604) was hit during take-off by a Tupolev Tu-134 which was landing at Ruzyne International Airport. None of the 6 occupants of the Il-18 were killed and the aircraft was repaired. This Il-18 now resides at the Letecké Muzeum Kbely (Prague Aviation Museum, Kbely).
15 February
Aeroflot Flight 5003, an Il-18V (CCCP-75520), stalled and crashed near Mineralnye Vody when the crew performed a missed approach, killing all 77 passengers and crew on board.
February
A Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) Il-18B (B-204, c/n 189001602) was damaged beyond repair at Shenyang Airport.
21 April
A Tarom Il-18V (YR-IMI) crashed during a go-around at Bucharest-Otopeni International Airport.
23 November
Malev Hungarian Airlines Flight 203, an Il-18V (HA-MOF, c/n 183006301) on a scheduled flight from Istanbul-Yesilköy Airport to Bucharest-Otopeni International Airport, was damaged beyond repair after colliding with two vehicles after landing at Bucharest.

1978

10 May
A CSA Il-18 flying from Ruzyne International Airport to Brno Turany Airport in Czechoslovakia was hijacked and flown to Frankfurt in Germany, where the hijackers surrendered.
3 September
An Air Guinee Il-18D (3X-GAX, c/n 187009803) from Moscow to Conakry Airport, Guinea, crashed into marshland near Conakry, killing 15 out of a total of 17 occupants.

1979

26 March
An Interflug Il-18D (DM-STL, c/n 186009402) aborted take-off at Luanda-Quatro de Fevereiro Airport after No.2 engine failed, over-running the runway, striking the ILS Localiser and bursting into flames, killing all 10 occupants.
10 May
An Aeroflot/Ural Il-18D (CCCP-75414, c/n 186009303) crashed after an aborted take-off at Adler/Sochi Airport, Russia.

1980

30 January
An Interflug Il-18 flying from Erfurt Airport to East Berlin was hijacked and liberated within a single day at an unknown airport.

1981

26 March
A Hàng Không Việt Nam Il-18D (VN-B190?, c/n 188010703) was reported to have crashed near Hoa Binh, Vietnam.

1982

25 July
A CAAC Il-18 was flying a scheduled passenger service from Xi'an Xiguan Airport to Shanghai-Hongqiao Airport, China when it was hijacked. The co-pilot and navigator were wounded and a bomb exploded when passengers overpowered the hijackers. The aircraft landed at Shanghai with two engines flamed out.
25 August
A LOT Polish Airlines Il-18E (SP-LSI, c/n 186008905) operating a flight from Budapest-Ferihegy Airport to Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW/EPWA), was diverted to München-Riem Airport in Germany by two male hijackers.
24 December
CAAC Flight 2311, an Il-18B (B-202, c/n. 189001401), burned out on the runway at Guangzhou-Baiyun Airport after a passenger's cigarette started a fire, killing 24 of 69 on board.

1984

16 June
A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Il-18V (LZ-BEP, c/n 185008105), was damaged beyond repair after a failed landing at Sana'a International Airport.

1985

19 January
A Cubana Il-18D (CU-T899, c/n 188011102) lost control and crashed near San José de las Lajas after the cargo shifted, killing all 38 passengers and crew on board.

1988

18 January
China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 (an Il-18D, B-222) crashed while on approach to Chongqing Airport due to loss of control caused by an engine fire, killing all 108 passengers and crew on board.

1991

14 August
A Tarom Il-18V (YR-IMH, c/n. 185008301) crashed near Uricani, Romania after the crew descended too soon, killing all nine passengers and crew on board.

1992

15 November
An Aerocaribbean Il-18D (CU-T1270, c/n 187010301) struck Pico Isabel de Torres near San Felipe de Puerto Plata, while on approach to Gregorio Luperón International Airport, Dominican Republic, for an intermediate stop, killing all 34 passengers and crew on board.

1995

January
A Kazakhstan Government Ilyushin Il-22M-15 (UN-75915, c/n 2964111701) was damaged beyond repair in a ground collision with an Antonov An-12 at Almaty Airport.

1997

Ramaer Cargo, December 17, 1997
17 December
Ramaer Cargo Flight 202, an Il-18V (RA-75554, c/n 185008404) from Johannesburg International Airport, to Bujumbura International Airport, Burundi, was written off after an aborted take-off due to incorrect centre of gravity.

1998

23 November
An Air Cess Ilyushin Il-18Gr (3D-SBZ, c/n 188010903) was strafed by fighters from the Zimbabwe Air Force at Kalemie Airport, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

2000

25 October
A Russian Air Force Il-18D (RA-74295) struck Mount Mtirala, in the Meskheti Range, while on approach to Chorokh Airport due to crew and ATC errors, killing all 84 passengers and crew on board.

2001

RA-75840 at Faro Airport.
19 November
An IRS Aero Il-18V (RA-75840) crashed near Kalyazin after the elevator control system malfunctioned, killing all 27 passengers and crew on board.

References

  1. "Ilyushin Il-18". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  2. Ozzy,eif,Avito s.r.o. "planes.cz - Článek - Havárie IL18 u Bratislavy". planes.cz.
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