Il-76 crash near Kabul (1984)
Soviet Air Force (128th Military Transport Aviation Regiment) Ilyushin Il-76 · Missile attack (shot down by MANPADS)
From Yuzhny, Tashkent (Uzbek SSR, USSR) to Kabul (Democratic Republic of Afghanistan)
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
- 11 · 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
- Military
Ilyushin Il-76
- Aircraft type
- Ilyushin IL-76
- 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-86739
- Onboard fatalities
- 11
- Route
- From Yuzhny, Tashkent (Uzbek SSR, USSR)To Kabul (Democratic Republic of Afghanistan)
Approximate · Estimated position: Kabul, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Il-76 crash near Kabul was an aviation disaster involving an Il-76M transport aircraft of the Soviet Air Force that occurred on 27 October 1984 in the Kabul area (Democratic Republic of Afghanistan), in which 11 people were killed (7 crew members and 4 passengers accompanying the cargo). The aircraft was shot down by a MANPADS.
Crash
On 27 October 1984, the crew of Major Yu. F. Bondarenko was operating a Tashkent—Kabul flight; on board were 25 tonnes of cargo belonging to Voentorg. In the daytime, during the approach to land, it was shot down by a Strela MANPADS 20 kilometres southeast of Kabul. The missile hit the left wing between engines No. 1 and No. 2. The aircraft crashed to the ground between the road to Jalalabad and the village of Diskhabzi-Khas; all 11 people on board were killed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Ил-76 под Кабулом (1984)” (revision 146782127, 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-76 под Кабулом (1984)
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 146782127 · 2025-07-18 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q65158540
- 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-76 под Кабулом (1984)" (page 7814634, revision 146782127), 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
- 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.