Aeroflot Flight 411 (1961)
Ilyushin Il-14 · Fuel starvation
From Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) (IEV) to Koltsovo Airport (SVX)
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
- 9 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 17
- 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
- 17
- 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
- CCCP-41848
- Operator
- Aeroflot
- Onboard fatalities
- 9
- Route
- From Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) (IEV)To Koltsovo Airport (SVX)
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Fluids/misc hardware
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
- Personnel issues › Task performance
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
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
On 8 July 1961, an Ilyushin Il-14 on Aeroflot Flight 411 crashed on the second leg of the Soviet domestic scheduled flight Aeroflot Flight 411, from Kyiv via Kazan to Sverdlovsk, killing 9 of the 26 occupants.
Sequence of events
At 8:25 Moscow time the Il-14 took off in the direction of Kazan. After a refuelling stop it took off again at 16:32 and climbed to 1800 m. According to the weather forecast, rain with possible thunderstorms was expected along the route at an altitude of 1000–1500 m. Visibility was to be 10 km and a northerly wind (350°) was to blow at 25–30 km/h.
Entry into the Sverdlovsk airspace took place at 1,200 m under visual flight rules. After overflying Yanaul, the pilots reported an altitude of 1200 m and a planned arrival time of 19:20. At 18:42 they reported overflying Krasnoufimsk and 3 minutes later corrected their arrival time to 19:32. At 18:51 the last radar contact took place.
At 8:00 the next morning the burned wreckage was found 120 km west of Sverdlovsk Airport. The entire crew as well as 4 passengers, including a child, had been killed. All survivors were admitted to nearby hospitals with numerous injuries.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The Il-14 took off with only 1104 kg of fuel because 550 kg too little had been loaded in Kazan. How this error came about could not be fully clarified, as the crew was killed. It became apparent, however, that the pilots noticed the low fuel level after overflying Krasnoufimsk, since they throttled back engine thrust for lower consumption and reported a speed reduced to 232 km/h with a correspondingly corrected arrival time. When the fuel finally ran out and the engines failed, the speed dropped until at 19:00 the Il-14, on a south-easterly heading (120°), clipped trees and struck the ground.
Declared responsible were:
Captain Vislobodov, who took off with too little fuel,
Co-pilot Krivenchenko, who, with no flight engineer on board, was responsible for refuelling,
Navigator Pukha, who monitored the fuel level inadequately.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Aeroflot-Flug 411 (1961)” (revision 251689821, 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
German Wikipedia article: Aeroflot-Flug 411 (1961)
- Article
- Aeroflot-Flug 411 (1961)
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 251689821 · 2024-12-29 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q120263543
- 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
- de Wikipedia article "Aeroflot-Flug 411 (1961)" (page 12068012, revision 251689821), translated into English with AI assistance
- 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: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.