Hull Losses
Since its first flight in 1963 there have been 12 fatal accidents during civilian service, namely: nine crashes, two landing overruns and an aborted takeoff (fatalities of the last three resulted from collisions with structures near the runway). The complete list of incidents include eight of Il-62M (a total of 25 incidents/accidents in ASN database, 14 of which were Il-62M, including 24/4/1998 and 20/4/2008).
As of July 2012 there had been 23 hull losses from all causes including prototype testing, fires, runway overruns, navigational errors, and non-operational incidents, 48% of which did not involve fatalities This figure and the list below includes planes that were still operable but were deemed uneconomic to return to service due to their age and/or flight hours (YR-IRD and CU-T1283). Within the group of comparable airliners (Il-62/Il-62M, VC10/Super VC10, Boeing 707, DC8) the Il-62M had the lowest hull loss rate.
There were no fatal accidents involving an Il-62 between 1989 and 2009.
| Date | Registration | Location | Fatalities | Brief description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 February 1965 | СССР-06156 | Zhukovsky Airfield, USSR | 10/10 | First prototype clipped a perimeter fence during max take-off weight testing, with loss of 10 test crew |
| 16 June 1972 | SU-ARN | Almaza AB, Egypt | 0/59 | Landed on wrong airport and overran the runway without fatalities |
| 14 August 1972 | DM-SEA | East Germany | 156/156 | Air at 300°C escaping from an unsecured air-con coupling melted electrical insulation and caused a short circuit that ignited inflammable fluid in the cargo bay. After losing elevator function, the crew decided to return to Berlin but were unaware of the fire which eventually destroyed the tail section rendering the aircraft uncontrollable. DM-SEA had been the first Il-62 operated by the airline |
| 13 October 1972 | СССР-86671 | Sheremetyevo, USSR | 174/174 | Crashed in a lake about 1 km short of the runway during the third attempt to land at night in poor weather conditions. The airport ILS navigation system was inoperative at the time of the accident |
| 20 August 1975 | OK-DBF | Near Damascus, Syria | 126/128 | A language misunderstanding between the control tower and the CSA crew of "Brno Trade Fair" (metric vs imperial) may have resulted in an incorrect altimeter being set. Preparing to land at midnight, the crew possibly believed the Damascus airport to be at a far lower altitude, resulting in a controlled flight into terrain 17 km short of the runway |
| 27 May 1977 | СССР-86614 | Havana, Cuba | 1+68/70 | Following a flight from Moscow to Havana with stopovers in Frankfurt and Lisbon, the plane was attempting to land at Jose Marti Airport in heavy fog when it hit power transmission lines and crashed 1 km short of the runway |
| 14 March 1980 | SP-LAA | Warsaw, Poland | 87/87 | Engine #2 failed after full thrust applied on missed approach from New York to Warsaw. Debris punctured the fuselage causing damage to engine #1 and loss of rudder control. The failed engine had reportedly caused vibrational problems when previously installed in two other LOT aircraft, and the turbine disc may have been already damaged when the engine was fitted. Reason: engine material fatigue |
| 06 July 1982 | СССР-86513 | Near Moscow, USSR | 90/90 | After departing Sheremetyevo bound for Senegal, the crew noticed engine overheating warning lights so the pilot shut down the paired engines and turned around to return to the airport. The aircraft became difficult to control and crashed in a field. Investigations later showed that the warning lights had been a false alarm. |
| 29 September 1982 | СССР-86470 | Luxembourg | 14/77 | Reverse thrust of engine #1 failed on landing. Pilot failed to steer aircraft effectively and it veered off the runway and hit a water tower |
| 1 July 1983 | P-889 | Labé, Guinea | 23/23 | A CAAK-registered Ilyushin Il-62M crashed in the Fouta Djallon mountains mear Labé on a charter flight from Sunan International Airport, North Korea to Conakry International Airport, Guinea. |
| 09 May 1987 | SP-LBG | Warsaw, Poland | 183/183 | Engine #2 burst during initial climb 25 min post-departure, causing damage to adjacent engine and a fire in the tail. The crew may have believed the fire extinguished because rather than land at Gdansk or Modlin, they turned around to return to Warsaw (EPWA) airport (which had better emergency facilities) and dumped half the fuel (unconfirmed reports claim that Modlin denied the aircraft permission to land). During the return flight the fire caused loss of control and subsequent crash close to Warsaw airport. The aircraft is reported to have flown 7000 hrs and almost 2800 hrs since its previous engine overhaul. Reason: premature engine bearing fatigue leading to turbine shaft failure and fire |
| 17 June 1989 | DDR-SEW | Berlin, East Germany | 1+21/113 | Crew aborted take-off after a locking bolt which had been left in position disabled the elevators and rudder. When instructed to apply reverse thrust, the flight engineer mistakenly switched the engines off and the aircraft veered off the runway without becoming airborne. Interflug's fleet of IL-62s were briefly grounded for elevator/rudder mechanism checks, but cleared for use the following day |
| 3 September 1989 | CU-T1281 | Havana, Cuba | 45+126/126 | Following delays due to a tropical storm, the crew attempted takeoff in poor weather conditions by reducing the aileron settings from 30º to 15º, but this reduced the ability of the aircraft to gain altitude. Shortly after takeoff and while still at a low altitude, the plane was caught in powerful downdrafts, forcing one of the wings to strike navigational aerials and then a hillside before it crashed into a residential area |
| 30 June 1990 | СССР-86456 | Yakutsk, USSR | 0/109 | Two engines mistakenly switched in take-off mode on landing. Aircraft made a safe landing but was damaged. No fatalities |
| 21 November 1990 | СССР-86613 | Yakutsk, USSR | 0/176 | Overran the short runway onto rough boggy terrain after reverse thrust was erroneously not deployed. Although there were no fatalities the fuselage and undercarriage were severely damaged |
| October 1992 | СССР-86703 | Domodedovo, Russia | 0/0 | Fire broke out during refueling when an attendant had been smoking. Deemed uneconomic to repair |
| 24 April 1998 | YR-IRD | Istanbul, Turkey | 0/73 | Engine failed at take-off and the aircraft landed safely |
| 11 November 1998 | RA-86564 | Anchorage, United States | 0/12 | Tail section of the aircraft badly damaged after being hit by taxiing Boeing 747 belonging to Asiana Airlines. Uneconomic to repair. No fatalities |
| 23 October 2002 | RA-86452 | Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan | 0/9 | Repositioning flight due to crew error resulted in the aircraft running off the tarmac into a concrete barrier. No fatalities |
| 29 March 2006 | 5A-DKR | Domodedovo, Russia | 0/6 | Engines mistakenly switched in take-off mode during landing. No fatalities |
| 20 April 2008 | CU-T1283 | Santo-Domingo, Dominican Republic | 0/117 | Engine #2 suffered an uncontained failure during initial climb at 25,000 ft. Rear fuselage sustained debris damage resulting in loss of cabin pressure and compromised fuel supply to engine #1 which was shut down. The aircraft made a safe landing at the airport of departure (Santo-Domingo) and later flew back to Havana but was deemed uneconomic to return to service |
| 24 July 2009 | UP-I6208 | Mashhad, Iran | 16/153+ | The sole fatal incident involving an Il-62 since 1989, pilot error led to the aircraft striking a concrete perimeter wall after a runway overrun at excessive landing speed of 197 mph (prescribed Il-62 landing speed = 145-165 mph). UP-I6208 had originally been in service with the East Germany airline Interflug followed by Aeroflot and Uzbekistan Airways before being acquired by Aria Air (the operators at the time of the accident) |
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