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Aeroflot Flight 418

1976 aviation accident

Field	Value
name	Aeroflot Flight 418
occurrence_type	Accident
image	Tupolev Tu-154A, Aeroflot AN1625078.jpg
caption	An Aeroflot Tu-154, similar to the one involved in the accident.
date
summary	Inconclusive (possibly due to radar failure)
site	Mount San Carlos, Bioko, Equatorial Guinea
coordinates
aircraft_type	Tupolev Tu-154A
operator	Aeroflot
tail_number	CCCP-85102
origin	Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Luanda, Angola
stopover	Malabo International Airport, Bioko, Equatorial Guinea
stopover0	N'Djamena International Airport, Chad
last_stopover	Tripoli International Airport, Libya
destination	Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Soviet Union
passengers	36
occupants	46
crew	10
fatalities	46
survivors	0

Aeroflot Flight 418 was an international passenger flight from Luanda to Moscow Sheremetyevo with three intermediate stops. On 1 June 1976, the Tupolev Tu-154A (CCCP-85102) operating the first leg of the flight, collided with Mount San Carlos of Bioko Island while en route. All 46 occupants onboard were killed as a result of the crash.

An investigation made by the commission was unable to conclude the cause of the crash but stated that the crash was due to radar failure onboard the aircraft.

Aircraft

The aircraft involved, manufactured in 1975 at the Kuibyshev Aviation Plant, Samara, was a "brand new" Tupolev Tu-154A registered CCCP-85102 with MSN 75A102. At the time of the accident, the aircraft had accumulated 2,119 hours and 1,069 cycles.

Passengers and crew

There were 36 passengers and 10 crew members on board the aircraft.{{Efn|

On 4 June 1976, The Associated Press reported that there were 36 passengers and 10 crew members on board the aircraft.
On 12 June 1976, Flight International reported that there were 46 passengers and crew.
On 11 December 1976, Flight International reported that there were 42 passengers and 4 crew members.
In 1988, in his book Uncovering Soviet disasters: exploring the limits of glasnost, James E. Oberg wrote that there were 46 occupants on board the aircraft.
The Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives reported that there were 45 occupants in total, including 35 passengers and 10 crew members.}} The 36 passengers included 32 Angolans, 20 of whom were wounded soldiers going to the Soviet Union for treatment and the rest were mostly students, one Hungarian and three Soviets.

There were 10 crew members onboard the flight, including four Soviet flight attendants. The flight crew was described as "experienced" by **.

Description

The aircraft was en route from Quatro de Fevereiro Airport to Malabo International Airport when it struck a mountain 750 m high at Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. All 42 passengers and 4 crew perished.

Investigation

The cause of the accident could not be determined, but the investigation commission suspected a possible failure of the MSRP-12 radar on the aircraft may have led the crew to be unaware of their position.

Notes

References

"Crash of a Tupolev TU-154A near Malabo: 45 killed {{!}} Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives".
(1 June 2020). "Жуткая история катастрофы ТУ-154 в джунглях экватора". {{ill.
(16 June 1976). "Wreckage Of Missing Jet Reported Found In Equatorial Guinea". [[Toledo Blade]].
(4 June 1976). "Missing Soviet jetliner down in West Africa". [[The Register-Guard]].
(4 June 1976). "Soviet Jet Crashes; 46 Aboard". [[The Press-Courier]].
(1988). "Uncovering Soviet disasters: exploring the limits of glasnost". Random House.
{{ASN accident
(11 December 1976). "Aeroflot known accident record 1966–76". [[Flight International]].
(12 June 1976). "Public-transport accidents". Flight International.

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