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Ilyushin Il-62M accident report
On May 27, 1977, the Il-62M CCCP-86614 of the Aeroflot crashed 1km short off the runway at Havana international airport. It had left Lisbon with 61 passengers and 9 crew members for the 7079km long flight to Havana. During the approach of RW05, it flew into power lines in foggy weather and crashed 1270 [m] short of the runway. 121m to the right of the extended centerline. There were 69 deaths. 1st flight : 1975 c/n 51903 (location 22°58'17.61"N 82°26'00.08"W +-100m)
Shortly after the start of Moscow–Sheremetyevo airport (SVO) on July 6, 1982, fire alarm lights began flashing aboard Aeroflot's IL-62M CCCP-86513. The lights indicated that 2 engines were on fire. The captain turns off both engines and tries to return to Sheremetyevo. However, he loses control and crashes 10km North West of Sheremetjevo airport, Moscow, 1.5 [km] east of village of Medeleevo. It had taken off as flight 411 with 82 passengers and 8 crew members with Dakar as its destination. All 90 passengers were killed. 1st flight : 1980 c/n 4037536. Probably the fire alarm was false... (location +-100 [m]
56°01’37"N 37°15'37"E
) c/n 4037536 cycles : 1139 flying hours : 4818
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On September 29, 1982, Aeroflot Il-62M CCCP-86470 shoots to the right of the runway upon landing at RW06 of Luxembourg-Findel Airport and ends in a ravine. Operated Flight 343 from Moscow (MOW) to Luxembourg (LUX) with 66 passengers and 11 crew members. There are 14 deaths. 1st flight : 1977 c/n 1725234. Cause : non-working thrust reverser. (location +-75m 49°37'31.90"N 6°12'54.21"E )
On 01 July 1983, the IL-62M P-889 c/n 2139.1 of the North Korean CAAK (now Air Koryo) crashed in the Fouta Djallon highlands near Labe, Guinea-Bissau. There are 23 deaths. Flight from Pyongyang (FNJ), via Kabul and Cairo to Conakry (CKY), 1st flight : 1981 (location is +-25 km 11°19'11.98"N 12°17'59.99"W )
On May 9, 1987, at 10:18 a.m., flight 5055 departed Warsaw for New York. A distance of 7257km. There were 172 passengers and 11 crew members aboard the Il-62M SP-LBG "Kosciuszko" c/n 3344942 of the LOT. 23 minutes after the start at 8200ft altitude, the low-pressure turbine shaft broke loose from the Soloviev D-30KU turbofan, causing the turbine rotor to fail. Shooting engine parts pierced the hull after which a fire broke out in the rear cargo hold. The steering of the elevators was also damaged. The crew switched off engines 1 and 2 and thought that this had also extinguished the fire. However, this was not the case. They made a rapid descent and first wanted to land at Modlin airport, but, ignorant of the fire in the tail, changed this to Warsaw-Okecie int'l airport (WAW) because there was better rescue equipment available there. At 11.09 am they made a turn at 1450m for the approach of RW33. During the turn, the crew lost control after which the plane crashes at 465 km/h in a forest 6 km in front of the runway, SE of the airport. A piece of forest of 400m long is cleared. All 183 on-board are killed. 1st flight : 1983 6972 flight hours 1752 cycles.
Crash-site SP-LBG (location +- 15 [m] 52°06’46.07’’N 21°02’46.17’’E
source : google earth
DDR-SEW at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, October 1988.
On June 17, 1989, the Il-62M DDR-SEW of Interflug breaks off the start because the elevators were stuck. Wanted to take off with 103 passengers and 10 crew members from East Berlin-Schonefeld (SXF) for a flight to Moscow (SVO). Does not stop in time and shoots past the end of RW25L, it hits an obstacle and catches fire. (location 52°21'58.09"N 13°28'40.57"E ) 20 passengers are killed and 1 person on the ground and there are 54 injured. 1st Flight 1988. c/n 2850324
DDR-SEW crash site
On September 3, 1989, Cubana's Il-62M CU-T1281 takes off from Havana-Jose Marti international airport (HAV) in heavy rain with 115 mostly German and Italian tourists and 11 crew members sailing 8150km away from Cologne (CGN). Immediately after take-off, the aircraft enters a strong downward airflow that blows the aircraft to the ground in a residential area 1km past the runway. All on-board are killed as well as 45 people on the ground. There are also another 63 people wounded on the ground. 1st flight : 1988 c/n 3850453 flight 9046. (location +-100m 23°00'08"N 82°23'13"W .The pilot should not have taken off in the rapidly deteriorating weather situation.
On 24 July 2009 Aria Air IL-62M UP-16208 c/n 1951525 overran Mashhad’s RW13L on landing and came to rest outside the airport perimeter. It approached the runway with 325 [km/hr], 50 [km/hr] above its assigned approach speed with a weight of 93 ton and touched down with 275 [km/hr]. Rate of descent 10 [m/s]. The crew did not communicate properly, high landing speed and wrong use of thrust reversers caused the overrun. Flight 1525 had taken off from Tehran (THR) with destination Mashad (MHD) in Iran with 156 passengers and 17 crew. First flight : 1989 total airframe hours : 13573 cycles : 3987 engines : Soloviev D-30KU-2 Ex-reg : UN-86509, UK-86578, CCCP-86578, D-AOAM, DDR-SEY. 11 crew and 5 passengers died in the crash.
Location : +- 30m 36°13’05.60”N 59°39’57.42”E
safe flight hours till fatality : 9544 [hr] (5.3 service years)
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