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1954 aviation accident

Aeroflot Flight 10
Accident
A similar Il-12 to the accident aircraft.
Date	27 September 1954 (1954-09-27)
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain
Site	Near Severny Airport, USSR
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Ilyushin Il-12P
Operator	Aeroflot
Registration	СССР-Л1365
Flight origin	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, USSR
1st stopover	Krasnoyarsk Airport, Krasnoyarsk, USSR
Last stopover	Severny Airport, Novosibirsk, USSR
Destination	Moscow Vnukovo Airport, Moscow, USSR
Passengers	24
Crew	5
Fatalities	29
Survivors	0

Aeroflot Flight 10 was a scheduled passenger flight from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport to Vnukovo Airport with stopovers at Krasnoyarsk Airport and Severny Airport. On 27 September 1954, the Ilyushin Il-12 operating the route crashed near Severny Airport after it struck trees.

Aircraft

The aircraft, an Ilyushin Il-12P registered as СССР-Л1365, went into operation in 1947. It had a factory number of 30086 and a serial number of 086. It was manufactured by Factory Number 30.

The crew consisted of:

Pilot-in-command Aleksandr Maksimovich Usachev
Trainee Georgiy Antonovich Sukharev
Co-pilot Yakov Aleksandrovich Konovalov
Flight engineer Sergey Fedorovich Shachnev
Radio operator Yakov Yakovlevich Shestak

Accident

The Il-12 departed Krasnoyarsk at 22:17. The visibility was forecast as 4–10 km (2.5–6.2 mi; 2.2–5.4 nmi) at the time of takeoff. Despite a warning being received by the station at 00:12 that the airport was covered in fog and had poor visibility, the forecaster on duty reported the weather conditions to the crew at 00:25. As the aircraft approached Novosibirsk, the visibility worsened to about 400 m (1,300 ft). The captain abandoned the approach due to the plane being too far to the left of the runway.

After a few minutes, the crew started another approach with a visibility of 100 m (330 ft). Without sighting the ground, the pilot-in-command continued the approach, with permission from the air traffic controller, and descended below the decision height. At 00:57, the Il-12 struck trees and crashed into a wooded area near the airport, killing all 29 occupants onboard. There was no fire.

Flight 10 was approaching from the south, where there were no approach lights, and the non-directional beacon worked improperly.

Cause

The investigation determined that the visibility was minimal. Furthermore, the crew did not have the runway and ground in sight. It was necessary to divert to an alternative airport, which in this case would have been Kemerovo or Barabinsk. As a consequence, the crew controlled flight into terrain.

The investigation listed these factors as the causes of the accident:

The decision of the crew to land in minimal weather
Failure of the air traffic controller to inform the pilots about the foggy weather
The absence of radio equipment in the airport to communicate with aircraft in the south

References

^ "ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin Il-12P CCCP-L1365 Novosibirsk-Severny (North) Airport". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
"Авиакатастрофа Ил-12 близ аэропорта Новосибирск-Северный. 1954". avia.pro (in Russian). Retrieved 18 January 2024.
^ "Crash of an Ilyushin II-12P in Novosibirsk: 29 killed". Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives. Retrieved 18 January 2024.

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in 1954 (1954)
Jan 6 Aldbury Valetta accidentJan 10 BOAC Flight 781Feb 26 Western Air Lines Flight 34Mar 13 BOAC Lockheed Constellation crashMar 28 Bjørnøya Consolidated PBY Catalina crashApr 8 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 9Apr 8 South African Airways Flight 201Jun 19 Swissair Convair CV-240Jul 23 Cathay Pacific DC-4 shootdownAug 23 KLM Flight 608Sep 5 KLM Flight 633Sep 27 Aeroflot Flight 10Oct 28 Aeroflot Flight 136Dec 15 Prestwick BOAC Stratocruiser crashDec 18 Linee Aeree Italiane Flight 451
1953 ◄ ► 1955

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1954 (1954)

Jan 6 Aldbury Valetta accidentJan 10 BOAC Flight 781Feb 26 Western Air Lines Flight 34Mar 13 BOAC Lockheed Constellation crashMar 28 Bjørnøya Consolidated PBY Catalina crashApr 8 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 9Apr 8 South African Airways Flight 201Jun 19 Swissair Convair CV-240Jul 23 Cathay Pacific DC-4 shootdownAug 23 KLM Flight 608Sep 5 KLM Flight 633Sep 27 Aeroflot Flight 10Oct 28 Aeroflot Flight 136Dec 15 Prestwick BOAC Stratocruiser crashDec 18 Linee Aeree Italiane Flight 451

1953 ◄ ► 1955

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union in the 1950s
1950	Sverdlovsk Li-2 crash (January 1950) Karaganda Aeroflot Il-12 crash (July 1950)
1951	Aradan An-2 crash (April 1951) Novosibirsk Aeroflot Il-12 crash (November 1951)
1952	Habomai Islands RB-29 shootdown (October 1952)
1953	Kemerovo mid-air collision (May 1953) Aeroflot Flight 229 (June 1953) Aeroflot Flight 783 (October 1953)
1954	Aeroflot Flight 10 (September 1954) Aeroflot Flight 136 (October 1954)
1955	Aeroflot Flight 214 (August 1955)
1956	Anadyr Aeroflot Li-2 crash (December 1956)
1957	LOT Polish Airlines Flight 232 (June 1957) Kiev mid-air collision (August 1957) Aeroflot Flight 11 (October 1957) Aeroflot Flight 10 (December 1957)
1958	Aeroflot Flight 105 (June 1958) Aeroflot Flight 04 (August 1958) C-130 shootdown incident (2 September 1958) Aeroflot Flight 365 (5 September 1958) Aeroflot Flight 164 (7 September 1958) Lazo Il-12 crash (19 September 1958) Kanash Aeroflot Tu-104 crash (October 1958)
1959	Aeroflot Flight 205 (January 1959) Aeroflot Flight 200 (October 1959) Aeroflot Flight 315 (November 1959)
1922–1949 ◄ 1950–1959 ► 1960–1969

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