ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 323010
| Date: | Saturday 27 July 2002 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Ilyushin Il-76MD |
| Owner/operator: | Lvovskie avialinii |
| Registration: | UR-76717 |
| MSN: | 0073474216 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1987 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, written off |
| Category: | OT |
| Location: | Lviv-Snilow Airport (LWO) -
 Ukraine
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | - |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - |
During an air show at the Lviv-Snilow Airport, Ukraine, a Ukraine Air Force Sukhoi Su-27UB was performing low-altitude manoeuvres. The aircraft hit touched a parked Ilyushin Il-76 (UR-76717) before crashing in flames into the audience, killing 77. Both pilots of the Su-27 ejected and survived.
The Ilyushin sustained damage to the nose and was withdrawn from use. It was broken up in January 2012.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
Location
Images:
photo (c) Alexei Shevelev; Lvov-Snilow Airport (LWO)
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Oostende Airport (OST/EBOS); April 2000
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