Il-62 crash in Ramenskoye
USSR Ministry of Aviation Industry (Plant No. 240) Ilyushin Il-62 · Probably engine surge
From Ramenskoye, Moscow (RSFSR) to Ashkhabad (Turkmen SSR)
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
- 10 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 7
- 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
- General aviation
Ilyushin Il-62
- Aircraft type
- Ilyushin IL-62
- 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-06156
- Onboard fatalities
- 10
- Route
- From Ramenskoye, Moscow (RSFSR)To Ashkhabad (Turkmen SSR)
Approximate · Estimated position: Zhukovsky International Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
The Il-62 crash in Ramenskoye was an aviation accident that occurred on Thursday 25 February 1965 at Ramenskoye airport (Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast) involving the first flying prototype of the Il-62, killing 10 people. It was the first accident involving the Il-62.
Crash
On 25 February 1965 the aircraft was to perform a test flight on the route Moscow (Ramenskoye) – Tashkent – Ashkhabad. For aircraft 06156 this was already its 127th flight. It was flown by a crew of 17, consisting of test pilots and test engineers of Plant No. 240. The crew commander was 1st class test pilot A. S. Lipko. Ballast was loaded on board, as a result of which the take-off weight was close to the maximum. But during take-off, probably, a surge or loss of thrust occurred in one or two engines. Having lifted off the runway at low speed and high angles of attack, the aircraft had barely managed to climb to 3–4 metres when it struck the aerodrome's reinforced concrete fence, then fell to the ground and broke up. In total there were 17 people on board; 7 survived.
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Sources
Russian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа Ил-62 в Раменском
- Article
- Катастрофа Ил-62 в Раменском
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 150406367 · 2025-12-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q18398600
- 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-62 в Раменском" (page 5049345, revision 150406367), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- airport the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata code, OurAirports)
- 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): The first Il-62 prototype on a test flight flown by the building plant's own test pilots and engineers: a manufacturer's test flight. The article: "It was flown by a crew of 17, consisting of test pilots and test engineers of Plant No. 240."
- 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.