ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 326186
Date: | Wednesday 18 October 1989 |
Time: | |
Type: | Ilyushin Il-76MD |
Owner/operator: | Soviet Air Force |
Registration: | CCCP-76569 |
MSN: | 0033448421 |
Year of manufacture: | 1983 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 57 / Occupants: 57 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 1,5 km off Sumqayit -
Azerbaijan
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Sumqayit-Nasosnaya Air Base |
Destination airport: | Bolgrad-Zhovtneve Air Base |
Narrative:The Ilyushin took off from an airport in Azerbaijan carrying paratroopers. Shortly after takeoff the no. 1 engine caught fire. The crew attempted to return to the airport, but the fire had weakened the structure of the wing. First the engine separated, then the airplane crashed in shallow water of the Caspian Sea, some 1500 m offshore.
Sources:
Scramble 253
Scramble Vol.13, nr.03
Volkskrant 20.10.1989
airdisaster.ru Location
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