| Date: | Wednesday 17 August 1960 |
| Time: | 15:58 |
| Type: |  Ilyushin Il-18B |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot, Moscow Civil Aviation Directorate |
| Registration: | CCCP-75705 |
| MSN: | 189001702 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1959 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 407 hours |
| Cycles: | 117 flights |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 34 / Occupants: 34 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Tarasovich -
 Ukraine
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Cairo International Airport (CAI/HECA) |
| Moskva-Bykovo Airport (BKA/UUBB) |
An Ilyushin 18B en route from Cairo, Egypt, to Moscow, was destroyed in an accident near Tarasovich, Kiev Region, Ukraine.
At 15:52 hours the flight reported that the propeller of the no. 4 was feathered and that they wanted to make an emergency landing at Kiev-Borispol Airport. At 15:57 the flight crew reported a fire on the no. 4 engine and the right hand wing, requesting an emergency descent. The controller offered a diversion to Zhuliany Airport, which was closed by.
The pilot lost control of the aircraft, which crashed in a forest in a nose down, right bank attitude.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
airdisaster.ru
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