Accident description
Last updated: 18 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 18 SEP 1981 |
| Time: | 07:13 |
| Type: | Yakovlev 40 |
| Operator: | Aeroflot, East Siberia Civil Aviation Directorate |
| Registration: | CCCP-87455 |
| C/n / msn: | 9431236 |
| First flight: | 1974 |
| Engines: | 3 Ivchenko AI-25 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 29 / Occupants: 29 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 33 / Occupants: 33 |
| Collision casualties: | Fatalities: 7 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 11 km (6.9 mls) from Zheleznogorsk-Ilimskiy (Russia) |
| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Irkutsk Airport (IKT/UIII), Russia |
| Zheleznogorsk-Ilimskiy Airport (UIBV), Russia |
The Yakovlev 40 was in level flight at an altitude of 400m passing through clouds when it collided with an Aeroflot/East Siberia Mil Mi-8 helicopter (CCCP-22268). The Mi-8, on a training flight from Bratsk, had finished base leg and was in descending turn when the collision occurred.
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» Dmitriy Yertsov
» World Directory of Airliner Crashes
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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