Il-14 crash near Voronezh
Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-14 · Failure of the right engine followed by fire and destruction of the wing
From Gumrak, Stalingrad to Vnukovo, Moscow
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
- 25 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- 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-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-L5057
- Operator
- “Aeroflot”
- Onboard fatalities
- 25
- Route
- From Gumrak, StalingradTo Vnukovo, Moscow
Approximate · Estimated position: Voronezh, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The air crash near Voronezh was the crash on 6 August 1955 of an Il-14 aircraft of the airline “Aeroflot”, registration СССР-Л5057, operating a flight on the route Moscow — Stalingrad — Moscow. During the en-route flight, the right engine failed and caught fire. The developing fire led to the destruction of the wing. The aircraft went out of control and crashed. All 25 people on board were killed, including 10 members of a delegation of Norwegian women who had come to the USSR at the invitation of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women, and 3 of its staff members who were accompanying the guests. A government commission headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, M. V. Khrunichev, arrived at the scene to investigate the causes of the crash.
Circumstances of the crash
During the war years in fascist-occupied Norway, activists of various public associations, inspired by the feat of the defenders of Stalingrad, secretly sewed a Soviet flag, and after the liberation of the country presented it to the Soviet military. The flag was handed over to Stalingrad and kept there in a museum. The women's delegation was invited to visit the city. On the way back from Stalingrad they were flying on the ill-fated aircraft.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Ил-14 под Воронежем” (revision 153811237, 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-14 под Воронежем
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 153811237 · 2026-07-03 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q4055752
- 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-14 под Воронежем" (page 3331014, revision 153811237), 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): An Aeroflot Il-14 carrying 25 people on the Moscow–Stalingrad route: a state airline transport flight. The article: "an Il-14 aircraft of the airline “Aeroflot”, registration СССР-Л5057, operating a flight on the route Moscow — Stalingrad — Moscow"
- 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.