Incident Overview
Date: Saturday 3 March 1973
Aircraft Type: Ilyushin Il-18V
Owner/operator: Balkan Bulgarian Airlines
Registration Number: LZ-BEM
Location: Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) –
ÿ Russia
Phase of Flight: Approach
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 25 / Occupants: 25
Component Affected: StabilatorsStabilators
Category: Accident
A flight experienced a catastrophic accident during a second attempt at landing following a missed approach. The aircraft rapidly lost altitude, descended severely, crashed into the ground, disintegrated, and subsequently caught fire. The exact cause remains undetermined, but potential contributing factors include icing on the stabilators, a significant pitch manoeuvre, and full landing flaps being deployed at the time of impact.A flight experienced a catastrophic accident during a second attempt at landing following a missed approach. The aircraft rapidly lost altitude, descended severely, crashed into the ground, disintegrated, and subsequently caught fire. The exact cause remains undetermined, but potential contributing factors include icing on the stabilators, a significant pitch manoeuvre, and full landing flaps being deployed at the time of impact.
Description
After a missed approach, the crew were executing a second attempt at landing, when the aircraft began to loose height rapidly, went into a nosedive, crashed into the ground, disintegrated and caught fire. The exact cause of the accident could not be accurately determined, but it was thought that there was possibly icing on the stabiliser, a significant pitch manoeuvre and full landing flaps extended at the time of the accident. PROBABLE CAUSE: Tail plane icing.
Primary Cause
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