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Aeroflot Flight 217

1972 plane crash in Moscow, Russia

Field	Value
name	Aeroflot Flight 217
occurrence_type	Accident
image	CCCP-86671 Ilyushin Il-62 Aeroflot, Leonardo da Vinci Airport, August 1972.jpg
caption	CCCP-86671, the aircraft involved in the accident, seen in August 1972
date
summary	Undetermined
site	Near Sheremetyevo International Airport, Lobnya, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
coordinates
aircraft_type	Ilyushin Il-62
operator	Aeroflot
IATA	SU217
ICAO	AFL217
callsign	AEROFLOT 217
tail_number	CCCP-86671
origin	Orly Airport
stopover	Shosseynaya Airport
destination	Sheremetyevo International Airport
occupants	174
passengers	164
crew	10
fatalities	174
survivors	0

Aeroflot Flight 217 was a non-scheduled international passenger flight from Orly Airport in Paris to Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, with a stopover at Shosseynaya Airport (now Pulkovo Airport) in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). On 13 October 1972, the Ilyushin Il-62 airliner operating the flight crashed on approach to Sheremetyevo, with the loss of all 164 passengers and crew of 10. At the time, it was the world's deadliest civil aviation disaster, until it was surpassed by the Kano air disaster in Nigeria in 1973. , the crash of Flight 217 remains the second-deadliest accident involving an Il-62, after LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055, and the second-deadliest on Russian soil, after Aeroflot Flight 3352.

Passengers

Nation		Number	Total	174
Algeria	6
Australia	1
Chile	38
East Germany	1
Soviet Union	118

Crash

Shortly before the expected landing, the plane was flying at the altitude of 1200 m and received the ATC instructions to descend to 400 m. The crew confirmed and started to descend, but later there was no action to return to the horizontal flight. The plane passed the 400 m mark with 20 m/s vertical velocity, no expected report to ATC and engines still running at low thrust. It crashed shortly afterwards, with landing gear up, spoilers retracted and horizontal speed about 620 km/h.

Aftermath

Reactions

The Soviet media's reaction was delayed by 17 hours, with western media picking up on the disaster. The Soviets had refused to state if the aircraft was an Il-62 and if there were any foreigners onboard the flight.

Investigation

The cause of the crash could not be determined. Investigators believed the most probable cause was the 'psycho-physiological incapacitation of the crew for reasons unknown'. Somewhere around 500 - altitude, 30–25 seconds before impact, the pilots either had been incapacitated or lost control of the plane.

Notes

References

Leddington, Roger. (16 October 1972). "Death toll at 176 in Russian crash". Nashua Telegraph.
Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin 62 CCCP-86671 Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO)". [[Flight Safety Foundation]].
Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin 62M SP-LBG Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW)". Flight Safety Foundation.
Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev 154B-1 CCCP-85243 Omsk Airport (OMS)". Flight Safety Foundation.
Haine, Edgar A.. (2000). "Disaster in the Air". Associated University Presses.
(1996). "Aviation Disasters Second Edition". Patrick Stephens Limited.

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