ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333425
| Date: | Sunday 17 December 1961 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Type: |  Ilyushin Il-18B |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot, Moscow Transport Aviation Administration (MUTA |
| Registration: | CCCP-75654 |
| MSN: | 188000503 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2722 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 59 / Occupants: 59 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 10 km E of Chebotovka village, Tarasovka district, Rostov region -
 Russia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Moskva-Vnukovo Airport (VKO/UUWW) |
| Adler/Sochi Airport (AER/URSS) |
An Ilyushin 18B passenger plane, CCCP-75654, was destroyed in an accident near Chebotovka village, Tarasovka district, Rostov region in Russia. All fifty passengers and nine crew members were killed.
Aeroflot Flight 245 had departed Moskva-Vnukovo Airport (VKO) at 14:34 on a domestic flight to Adler/Sochi Airport (AER). Cruising altitude was 8000 metres. At 16:00 the flight engineer inadvertently caused the flaps to be selected to 40 degrees down. The flap lever was not protected against accidental actuation.
The aircraft entered an uncontrollable dive and crashed with a pitch of 107 degrees on a snow-covered field
Sources:
Soviet Transports
airdisaster.ru
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