ČSA Flight 351
Czechoslovak Airlines Ilyushin Il-14 · Engine failure, pilot errors
From Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Piešťany
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
- 13 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 40
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
- 27
- 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-14
- Aircraft type
- Ilyushin IL-14
- 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-MCJ
- Operator
- Czechoslovak Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 13
- Route
- From Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)To Piešťany
Approximate · Estimated position: Ptice, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
ČSA Flight number 351 on the route Prague-Ruzyně–Piešťany, operated by an Avia Av-14, the Czechoslovak version of the Ilyushin Il-14 aircraft, of Czechoslovak State Airlines with registration OK-MCJ, ended on 11 October 1968 at 16:20 in a crash near the village of Ptice near Kladno.
In the accident 8 passengers and 3 crew members died at the scene; another two passengers died after being taken to hospital. Among the victims was the fighter pilot Leopold Šrom. According to the investigation commission, the probable cause of the accident was a drop in, or reduction of, the power of the right engine for an undetermined reason and subsequent crew errors.
The 73rd episode of Czech Television's documentary series Osudové okamžiky (Fateful Moments), entitled Ptice 1968, was devoted to the event.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Czech Wikipedia article “Let ČSA 351” (revision 26120040, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Czech Wikipedia article: Let ČSA 351
- Article
- Let ČSA 351
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 26120040 · 2026-08-09 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q131543609
- 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
- cs Wikipedia article "Let ČSA 351" (page 1955816, revision 26120040), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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 Czech Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.