Aeroflot Flight 909
Ilyushin Il-18E · Loss of control following electrical failure
From Vnukovo International Airport (VKO) to Zvartnots International Airport (EVN)
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
- 118 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 7
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
- Unknown
- 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-18E
- 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
- CCCP-75408
- Operator
- Aeroflot
- Onboard fatalities
- 111
- Route
- From Vnukovo International Airport (VKO)To Zvartnots International Airport (EVN)
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
Aeroflot Flight 909 was a scheduled domestic flight overnight on 5–6 March 1976 flown by Ilyushin Il-18E registered CCCP-74508. The aircraft lost control following an electrical failure and crashed near Voronezh in the Soviet Union. All 111 on board were killed, including 7 on the ground, making it the deadliest plane crash in Russia.
Accident
The aircraft was on a domestic passenger flight between Moscow and Yerevan at flight level 260 (about 26000 ft) when an electrical failure disabled some of the aircraft instruments including the compass and the two main gyros. It was 00:58 in the dark and according to the official version without a natural horizon due to clouds the crew became confused on the orientation of the aircraft and control was lost and the aircraft crashed killing all on board. Some reports show that seven were killed on the ground.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Aeroflot Flight 909
- Article
- Aeroflot Flight 909
- Revision
- 1341784438 · 2026-03-05 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q4055756
- 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 "Aeroflot Flight 909" (page 43292182, revision 1341784438)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- 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: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: ground fatalities
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.
- The article contradicts itself on the registration: its text gives CCCP-74508, its infobox (used here) CCCP-75408.