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Date:	Sunday 1 October 1972
Time:	19:25
Type:	Ilyushin Il-18V
Owner/operator:	Aeroflot, Moscow Civil Aviation Directorate
Registration:	CCCP-75507
MSN:	183006405
Year of manufacture:	1963
Total airframe hrs:	15718 hours
Cycles:	7899 flights
Engine model:	Ivchenko AI-20K
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 109 / Occupants: 109
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	4 km W off Adler/Sochi Airport (AER) - Russia
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Adler/Sochi Airport (AER/URSS)
Destination airport:	Moskva-Vnukovo Airport (VKO/UUWW)

Narrative:
Shortly after takeoff from Adler/Sochi Airport (AER), at an altitude of 150-250 meters the IL-18 banked right and then made a sharp left turn. With increasing left bank, the Il-18 crashed into the Black Sea, 4 km from the shore and sank in an underwater canyon at a depth of 600 m with a thick layer of silt on the bottom.

Sources:

airdisaster.ru
Soviet Transports

Statistics

8^th worst accident in 1972
2^nd worst accident of this aircraft type
worst accident of this aircraft type at the time

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