| Date: | Friday 18 September 1981 |
| Time: | 12:13 |
| Type: |  Yakovlev Yak-40 |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot, East Siberia Civil Aviation Directorate |
| Registration: | CCCP-87455 |
| MSN: | 9431236 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1974 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 10455 hours |
| Cycles: | 9784 flights |
| Engine model: | Ivchenko AI-25 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 33 / Occupants: 33 |
| Other fatalities: | 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 11 km E of Zheleznogorsk-Ilimskiy Airport -
 Russia
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Irkutsk Airport (IKT/UIII) |
| Zheleznogorsk-Ilimskiy Airport (UIBV) |
The Yak-40 was in level flight at an altitude of 400 m passing through clouds on approach to Zheleznogorsk-Ilimskiy Airport when it collided with an Aeroflot/East Siberia Mil Mi-8T 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.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
Dmitriy Yertsov
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
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