ČSA Flight 511 (March 1961)
ČSA (Československé Státní Aerolinie) Ilyushin Il-18V · In-flight breakup for unknown reasons; possible bomb explosion, pilot error or an autopilot malfunction
From Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Bamako, Mali
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 52 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 52
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Ilyushin Il-18V
- Aircraft type
- Ilyushin IL-18
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- OK-OAD
- Onboard fatalities
- 52
- Route
- From Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)To Bamako, Mali
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Czechoslovak Airlines (ČSA) Flight 511 was a flight operated by an Ilyushin Il-18 that crashed in Igensdorf near Nuremberg on 28 March 1961 while flying across West Germany.
A German investigation commission stated that the primary cause of the accident was pilot error or an autopilot malfunction. Soviet investigators dismissed this conclusion and stated that the accident was caused by an explosion near the tail of the plane.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: ČSA Flight 511 (March 1961)
- Article
- ČSA Flight 511 (March 1961)
- Revision
- 1357678274 · 2026-06-04 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q2254414
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "ČSA Flight 511 (March 1961)" (page 35319000, revision 1357678274)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.