ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin Il-14FKM CCCP-04193 Molodezhnaya
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Date:Tuesday 2 January 1979
Time:15:21
Type:Silhouette image of generic IL14 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Ilyushin Il-14FKM
Operator:Aeroflot, Central Region Civil Aviation Directorate
Registration: CCCP-04193
MSN: 7343506
First flight: 1957
Total airframe hrs:19494
Cycles:12705
Crew:Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 5
Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 9
Total:Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 14
Aircraft damage: Damaged beyond repair
Location:Molodezhnaya (   Antarctica)
Phase: Takeoff (TOF)
Nature:Domestic Non Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:Molodezhnaya Ice Station, Antarctica
Destination airport:Mawson Station, Antarctica
Narrative:
The Ilyushin 14FKM operated transportation flights for participants of the 24th Soviet Antarctic expedition.
The ski-equipped IL-14 took off from the ice runway at Molodezhnaya Ice Station.
At an altitude of 70-80 meters above the ground the plane suddenly descended in a left bank until it impacted a glacier.
Investigation revealed that the airplane was caught in a wind shear.

Classification:
Windshear/downdraft
Loss of control

Sources:
» Soviet Transports
» Dmitriy Yertsov


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