Crash-aerien 12 JUL 1961 d'un Ilyushin Il-18V OK-PAF - Casablanca-Anfa Airport (CAS)
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Statuts:Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Date:mercredi 12 juillet 1961
Heure:01:25 UTC
Type/Sous-type:Silhouette image of generic IL18 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Iliouchine Il-18V
Compagnie:CSA Ceskoslovenské Aerolinie
Immatriculation: OK-PAF
Numéro de série: 181002904
Année de Fabrication: 1961
Heures de vol:268
Moteurs: 4 Ivchenko AI-20
Equipage:victimes: 8 / à bord: 8
Passagers:victimes: 64 / à bord: 64
Total:victimes: 72 / à bord: 72
Dégats de l'appareil: Détruit
Conséquences: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Lieu de l'accident:13 km (8.1 milles) SSW of Casablanca-Anfa Airport (CAS) (   Maroc)
Phase de vol: En vol (ENR)
Nature:Transport de Passagers Intern.
Aéroport de départ:Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH), Suisse
Aéroport de destination:Rabat-Sale Airport (RBA/GMME), Maroc
Numéro de vol:OK511
Détails:
An Ilyushin Il-18, OK-PAF, was destroyed when it crashed near Casablanca-Anfa Airport (CAS), Morocco. All 72 on board were killed.
CSA Flight 511 was an international passenger flight from Prague (PRH), Czechoslovakia to Conakry (CKY), Guinea with en route stops at Zurich (ZRH), Switzerland, Rabat (RBA), Morocco, and Dakar (DKR), Senegal.
It departed Zurich at 20:43 on 11 July. The en route part of the flight trip was uneventful. At 01:00 the aircraft contacted Sale Tower and requested weather information. The tower replied: "visibility 10 m (30 ft), ground fog, clear sky." The flight then advised it was heading for Casablanca, the alternate.
At 01:06 the aircraft gave its position as 5 miles from Casablanca-Anfa (CAS), requested permission to descend and asked for landing instructions. The aircraft was asked to call when on the downwind leg. Four minutes later the flight was asked to call when on final approach and was told that he was number one for landing, the surface wind was 040°at 4 kts. The pilot replied that he would call when over the range station. The aircraft flew over the field at 01:13, and three minutes later the pilot gave his altitude as 400 m (1300 ft) and indicated a ceiling of 150 m (500 ft). The flight was advised that cloud was 7/8, ceiling 140-150 m (450 to 500 ft). Three minutes later conditions were 7/8, 100 m (330 ft). At 01:22 the aircraft requested permission to land in Casablanca-Nouasseur Airport (CMN) if possible, and the tower asked him to wait. Two minutes later the aircraft was asked how much fuel it had remaining. It replied it had enough for 90 minutes. During the time Anfa control was transmitting this request to the American authorities in Nouasseur, the aircraft crashed at 01:25, in line with runway 03 about 8 miles from its threshold.

On March 28, 1961 another CSA Il-18 operating on the same flight, OK511, crashed near Nurnberg, Germany killing all 52 on board.

Probable Cause:

PROBABLE CAUSE: "None of the assumptions i.e. Material failure, electrical failure, abrupt manoeuvre to avoid another aircraft and unfavourable weather conditions, satisfied the investigating commission as being a definite cause of the accident. The last one, however, although unlikely at first sight, could account for the accident if the crew warned of the deteriorating weather by the Anfa tower had decided to take advantage of the partial visibility (of the ground) between stratus cloud and had attempted a fast let-down in unfavourable conditions."

Sources:
» ICAO Digest 13 (Circular 69)
» Soviet Transports


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Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposée destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Zürich-Kloten Airport et Rabat-Sale Airport est de 1950 km (1219 miles).
Accident location: Approximate; accuracy within a few kilometers.

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