List of accidents and incidents involving the Ilyushin Il-18

Accidents and incidents involving the Ilyushin Il-18

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1958 7 May A Soviet Air Force Il-18A (CCCP-Л5821, c/n 188000104) 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 Il-18B (CCCP-75676, c/n 189000905), from Vnukovo Airport was written off after suffering structural damage in a cumulonimbus cloud while flying over Voronezh Region; all 65 passengers and crew survived. 17 October An Aeroflot Il-18 suffered substantial damage from a fire in engine three while parked at Kastrup Airport during a stopover; all 30 on board evacuated and 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 036, an Il-18B (CCCP-75705, c/n 189001702), crashed near Tarasovich, Kyiv Oblast due to loss of control following an in-flight fire, killing all 34 passengers and crew on board; the fire was caused by a leaking fuel injector in engine four. 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. Test flights later showed that the Il-18 was prone to loss of control in icing conditions.

1961 28 March ČSA Flight 511, an Il-18V (OK-OAD, c/n 180002102), broke up in mid-air and crashed near Gräfenberg, West Germany following an unexplained high-speed descent, killing all 52 on board. The cause of the descent was not determined, but instrument failures, autopilot problems, pilot incapacitation or an in-flight emergency were theorized. 22 June An Aeroflot/Moscow Il-18B, CCCP-75672 (c/n 189000901), en route from Vnukovo Airport to Adler/Sochi Airport, suffered an unexplained generator failure on engine three and subsequent fire, force-landing in a field near Bogoroditsk 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 a fast descent in bad weather was theorized. 28 July An Aeroflot Il-18V (CCCP-75766, c/n 181003405) lost control and crashed at Tretyakovo Airport; the aircraft was on a test flight with the number two propeller feathered when it banked left, stalled, and crashed. The number one propeller went into autorotation, causing negative thrust that led to the loss of control. All six crew survived. 13 August An Aeroflot/Ulyanovsk Flight School Il-18B (CCCP-75653, c/n 188000502) overshot the runway in poor visibility at Riga Central Airport, Latvia after landing late; all six crew survived. 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 overloaded: the Il-18V was designed for 84 passengers, not 110.

1962 24 February A TAROM Il-18V (YR-IMB, c/n 181003702) belly landed near Paphos, Cyprus, after all 4 engines failed, perhaps due to fuel filter icing, (see List of airline flights that required gliding). The aircraft was ferried to Moscow for repairs in November 1962, but was never repaired and was written off instead. 23 November Malév 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/Polar Il-18V (CCCP-75732, c/n 181002601) force-landed on the ice of the Shelikhov Gulf near Bukhta Yemlinskaya due to double engine failure and sank, killing all 10 passengers and crew on board; three initially survived the crash, but later died of hypothermia in the subzero temperatures. A hot air line near the number two engine broke, melting electrical components and starting a fire in the number two engine nacelle, followed by a ruptured fuel line. The aircraft was not equipped with life jackets, signaling equipment or warm clothing. 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 12 of 54 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 engine four malfunctioned, killing all 67 passengers and crew on board. 10 November An Aeroflot/Uzbekistan Il-18B, CCCP-75686 (c/n 189001201), crashed short of the runway on landing at Kuybyshev Airport en route from Tashkent due to pilot error; all 75 on board survived.

1964 2 July An Aeroflot/Moscow Il-18B (CCCP-75661, c/n 188000605) was written off at Krasnodar Airport. 3 August An Aeroflot/Far East Il-18V (CCCP-75824, c/n 182004903) was written off 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, including Marshal Sergey Biryuzov and Colonel general Vladimir Zhdanov.

1965 4 January Aeroflot Flight 101/X-20, 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. 8 March An Aeroflot/Kyrgyzstan Il-18B (CCCP-75690, c/n 189001205) landed wheels-up at Frunze Airport after the crew forgot to lower the landing gear during multiple go-arounds; no casualties. The aircraft was repaired and returned to service. 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 .

1966 1 February A Cubana Il-18 overran the runway on landing at Halifax International Airport and crashed into a snow bank; all 44 on board survived. 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 who shot the on-board security guard and demanded to be flown to Florida, but the pilot continued to Havana instead. When the hijacker saw an Aeroflot aircraft on the tarmac, he realized he had been tricked and shot the pilot dead and tried to begin takeoff, but the co-pilot shut down the engines. The hijacker jumped out of the plane and fled; he was caught days later. 7 July A Cubana Il-18 flying from Antonio Maceo Airport to José Martí International Airport, was hijacked by nine people (including the pilot) and flown to Jamaica. 10 July A Cubana Ilyushin Il-18V (CU-T830, c/n 182004905) made a forced landing at Cienfuegos due to multiple engine failure, killing two of 93 on board. 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; all 121 passengers and crew on board survived. 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 three 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 24 January A Vietnam Civil Aviation Ilyushin Il-18D (VN-1590, c/n 186008804) slid off the runway while landing at Nanning Wuxu International Airport en route from Hanoi after the landing gear collapsed; all 17 on board were able to escape before the aircraft burned out. The aircraft was overloaded above its max landing weight. 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 climbout, 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 and crashed on climbout 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 short of the runway at Karaganda Airport. 24 February A Soviet Government 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 up at following a high-speed descent from and crashed near Parchum, killing 83 of 84 on board; the cause was not determined, but a fuel leak (and resultant fire) in the left wing was blamed. 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 Karnobat after the crew deviated from flight rules to attempt a visual approach in bad weather, killing 47 of 89 on board. The aircraft was leased from TABSO and operated for Bulair. 20 October An Aeroflot/West Siberia Il-18D (CCCP-75436, c/n 186009505) on a scheduled flight from Novosibirsk-Tolmachevo Airport to Yakutsk Airport, diverted to Krasnoyarsk Airport, due to weather. The aircraft landed hard 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 (SU-APC) crashed while attempting to land at Aswan International Airport. One hundred of the 105 passengers and crew on board were killed. 26 August An Aeroflot 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. 19 October A LOT Polish Airlines Il-18 was hijacked by two East German men and flown to Tegel Airport, West Berlin; after three hours on the ground the aircraft took off for Schönefeld. Both hijackers requested asylum in West Berlin.