Incident Overview

Date: Thursday 24 November 1966
Aircraft Type: Ilyushin Il-18V
Owner/operator: TABSO
Registration Number: LZ-BEN
Location: 8 km NNW of Bratislava-Ivanka Airport (BTS) – ÿ Slovakia
Phase of Flight: En route
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 82 / Occupants: 82
Component Affected: AircraftAircraft
Category: Accident
A Ilyushin Il-18 crashed near Bratislava-Ivanka Airport, Slovakia, resulting in the deaths of all 82 occupants. The flight, scheduled from Sofia, Bulgaria to Berlin, East Germany, with en route stops in Budapest, Hungary, and Prague, Czechoslovakia, deviated to Bratislava due to deteriorating weather conditions. The aircraft ascended to 300m altitude, then climbed to 5100m, and crashed into a wooded mountain slope at 420m above the airport level. The probable cause was insufficient terrain relief and weather assessment by the crew, leading to adaptation failures.A Ilyushin Il-18 crashed near Bratislava-Ivanka Airport, Slovakia, resulting in the deaths of all 82 occupants. The flight, scheduled from Sofia, Bulgaria to Berlin, East Germany, with en route stops in Budapest, Hungary, and Prague, Czechoslovakia, deviated to Bratislava due to deteriorating weather conditions. The aircraft ascended to 300m altitude, then climbed to 5100m, and crashed into a wooded mountain slope at 420m above the airport level. The probable cause was insufficient terrain relief and weather assessment by the crew, leading to adaptation failures.

Description

TABSO flight 101, an Ilyushin Il-18, crashed near Bratislava-Ivanka Airport, Slovakia, killing all 82 occupants. Flight lz101 was a scheduled passenger service from Sofia, Bulgaria to Berlin, East Germany (now Germany) with en route stops at Budapest, Hungary and Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). The aircraft departed Budapest at 10:46 GMT. Weather at Prague had deteriorated, so the crew diverted to Bratislava where the aircraft landed at 11:58 GMT. Weather at Prague improved and the flight took off from runway 31 at 15:28 GMT. According to the clearance the flight was turn right after takeoff and to climb to 300 m altitude while heading to the OKR beacon, followed by a further climb to 5100 m. Shortly after takeoff, the aircraft crashed into a wooded mountain slope at 420 m amsl, which is 288 m above airport level. PROBABLE CAUSE: “The commission could not definitely establish the cause of the IL-18 (LZ-BEN) aircraft. The Commission assumed that the most probable cause of the accident was insufficient evaluation of terrain relief and weather conditions in the Bratislava Airport control zone by the aircraft crew and lack of adaption of the flight to these conditions.”

Source of Information

https://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.php, http://www.leteckabadatelna.cz/havarie-a-sestrely/detail/1062/https://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.php, http://www.leteckabadatelna.cz/havarie-a-sestrely/detail/1062/

Primary Cause

Insufficient evaluation of terrain relief and weather conditions by the aircraft crew and lack of adaptation of the flight to these conditions.Insufficient evaluation of terrain relief and weather conditions by the aircraft crew and lack of adaptation of the flight to these conditions.

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