Incident Overview
Date: Sunday 13 August 1961
Aircraft Type: Ilyushin Il-18B
Owner/operator: Aeroflot, Ulyanovsk Flight School
Registration Number: CCCP-75653
Location: Riga Central Airport –
ÿ Latvia
Phase of Flight: Landing
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8
Component Affected: The aircraft’s landing gear and potentially the aircraft’s structural components.The aircraft’s landing gear and potentially the aircraft’s structural components.
Category: Accident
An Ilyushin 18B passenger plane experienced a damage beyond repair following a runway excursion accident at Riga Airport (RIX). The aircraft overshot the runway due to fog conditions, resulting in a collision across the Bolderaja highway, with no fatalities reported.An Ilyushin 18B passenger plane experienced a damage beyond repair following a runway excursion accident at Riga Airport (RIX). The aircraft overshot the runway due to fog conditions, resulting in a collision across the Bolderaja highway, with no fatalities reported.
Description
An Ilyushin 18B passenger plane was damaged beyond repair in a runway excursion accident at Riga Airport (RIX). There were no fatalities. The airplane overshot the runway in fog and came to rest across the Bolderaja highway.
Source of Information
https://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.php, http://airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=357https://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.php, http://airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=357Primary Cause
Fog conditions and runway excursion maneuvers caused the aircraft to overshot the runway.Fog conditions and runway excursion maneuvers caused the aircraft to overshot the runway.Share on:
