Il-18 crash near Belgrade
Soviet Air Force, 8th ADON Ilyushin Il-18 · Crew error
From Sheremetyevo, Moscow (USSR) to Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
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
- 18 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
- 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
- Military
Ilyushin Il-18
- 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-75668
- Operator
- Soviet Air Force, 8th ADON
- Onboard fatalities
- 18
- Route
- From Sheremetyevo, Moscow (USSR)To Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The Il-18 crash near Belgrade was the crash of a Soviet Air Force Il-18 aircraft during its approach to Belgrade airport (Yugoslavia), in which a Soviet military delegation was killed that was flying to the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Belgrade from the German occupiers.
6 days before the crash, on 13 October, this aircraft with the same crew had flown the cosmonauts Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov and Boris Yegorov from Kustanay to the Baikonur cosmodrome after their landing in the Voskhod 1 spacecraft.
Causes of the crash
As a result of the aircraft simultaneously deviating from the landing course and flying below the glide path, during its approach to the airport of the city of Belgrade it collided with Mount Avala 180 metres from its summit.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Ил-18 под Белградом” (revision 153402427, 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
Russian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа Ил-18 под Белградом
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 153402427 · 2026-06-04 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q4055769
- 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
- ru Wikipedia article "Катастрофа Ил-18 под Белградом" (page 1838800, revision 153402427), translated into English with AI assistance
- 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
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.