Ilyushin Il-18 - Accidents and Incidents

Accidents and Incidents

• March 28, 1961 - ČSA Flight 511, crashed near Gräfenberg in West Germany. All 52 passengers and crew on board were killed.
• February 24, 1962 - Tarom Ilyushin 18V, off Paphos, Cyprus, landing in the sea after all 4 engines failed, perhaps due to the fuel filters icing (see List of airline flights that required gliding)
• September 5, 1967, a Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie Ilyushin IL-18 crashed shortly after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. 37 of the 69 passengers and crew aboard were killed.
• November 16, 1967 - While taking off from Koltsovo Airport, one of the engines of an Aeroflot Il-18 caught fire. Only 200 meters above the ground, the crew lost control of the plane, killing all 8 crew and 122 passengers.
• March 20, 1969, a United Arab Airlines Il-18 crashed while attempting to land at Aswan International Airport. 100 of the 105 passengers and crew on board were killed.
• August 28, 1971, a MALÉV Ilyushin Il-18, HA-MOC crashed into the sea near Copenhagen while executing an instrument approach. The main cause of the accident was microburst, a particularly dangerous and unpredictable meteorological phenomenon. 23 passengers and the crew of 9 died, 2 passengers survived. The captain of the plane was World War II flying ace of the Royal Hungarian Air Force, Dezső Szentgyörgyi, who was due to retire less than 3 weeks after the date of the accident.
• July 28, 1976 - During a flight from Prague Ruzyně Airport, the no.3 engine (aircraft engines are numbered from the outermost port engine) of a Czech Airlines Il-18 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 the 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.
• January 18, 1988 - China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 crashes while on approach to Chongqing Airport in China. All 108 passengers and crew on board are killed.