Incident Overview
Description
The Il-14 operated on a regular passenger service from Moscow-Vnukovo to Baku, Azerbaijan with intermediate stops at Voronezh and Stalingrad (now named Volgograd). It was raining at Stalingrad with low clouds but visibility was sufficient to conduct a visual landing. The flight had descended to a height of 400 m on finals when contact was lost. The airplane descended, rolling to the right until it struck a snow covered field and burned. Investigators were not able to conclude what had caused the accident. However it was deemed possible that the airplane had been struck by machine gun or rifle fire from the ground. Five round holes of a diameter of 10 mm and 35 where found in the flight deck. Also, other crews had complained about the arms being fired from a military training facility beneath the approach path.
Source of Information
https://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.php, http://airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=796https://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.php, http://airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=796Primary Cause
Machine gun or rifle fire from a military training facility beneath the approach path.Machine gun or rifle fire from a military training facility beneath the approach path.Share on:
