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1966 aviation accident

Aeroflot Flight 065
Accident
Sister ship of accident aircraft at Haneda Airport, Tokyo in 1965.
Date	17 February 1966 (1966-02-17)
Summary	Crew and ATC errors
Site	Sheremetyevo International Airport 55°58′12″N 37°23′16″E / 55.9699°N 37.3879°E / 55.9699; 37.3879
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Tupolev Tu-114
Operator	Aeroflot
Registration	CCCP-76491
Flight origin	Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russian SSR
1st stopover	Conakry International Airport, Conakry, Republic of Guinea
Last stopover	Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana
Destination	Maya-Maya Airport, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
Occupants	66
Passengers	47
Crew	19
Fatalities	21
Survivors	45

Aeroflot Flight 065 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by the International Civil Aviation Directorate division of Aeroflot. On 17 February 1966 at 1:38 am local time a Tupolev Tu-114 crashed during take-off from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, killing 21 of the 47 passengers and 19 crew members on board. This was the only fatal incident involving a Tu-114. A committee investigating the accident found that the crash was due to multiple crew and ATC failures.

Accident

On 16 February at 11:35 pm the crew of flight 065 were preparing for departure and received a weather report of visibility 700 metres (2,300 ft), with mist, light snow and a relative humidity of 100 percent. Recent snow had been cleared from the runway but not from its full 60 metres (200 ft) width. A strip approximately 40 metres (130 ft) wide had been plowed down the center of the concrete runway leaving snow 50–70 centimetres (20–28 in) deep along the runway edges.

The visibility minimum for takeoff of a Tu-114 was 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). At 1:37 am the aircraft crew radioed the control tower requesting the actual visibility and the controller reported 1,100 metres (3,600 ft). The controller later testified that he counted the runway edge lights he could see looking down the runway. He believed the distance between these lights to be 100 metres (330 ft) when in fact it was 50 metres (160 ft).

At 1:38 am the aircraft began its take-off roll one degree to the right of the runway center line. Approximately 30 seconds later the aircraft was 1,050 metres (3,440 ft) down the runway when the crew realized they were approaching the plowed snow on the right edge and overcorrected to the left four degrees. When the aircraft reached 255–260 kilometres per hour (158–162 mph), 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) down the runway the pilot rotated the nose wheels off the ground. At a distance of 1,850 metres (6,070 ft) from the beginning of the runway, accelerating through 275 kilometres per hour (171 mph), the left main landing gear entered the 60 centimetres (24 in) deep snow, causing the aircraft to yaw left and pitch down. The left main gear then impacted a runway edge light. Instead of aborting the take-off the pilot banked right, striking the propellers of engines 3 and 4 on the runway. The aircraft then spun to the right, flipped over and burst into flames. The forward fuselage and main wing section were completely destroyed. The force of the impact tore away the tail section and it came to rest inverted separated from the burning forward section. Many of the survivors were seated in this part of the aircraft.

Aircraft

The accident aircraft was a Tupolev Tu-114 with aircraft registration CCCP-76491 and manufacturer's serial number 64M472. The airliner was manufactured in 1964, delivered to Aeroflot on 12 December of that year and entered service on 18 November 1965; it was the last Tu-114 produced.

At the time of the accident, it had accumulated 93 hours with 19 take-off/landing cycles, and flown approximately 6,960 kilometres (4,320 mi).

Investigation

In a report released 12 May 1966 the investigating board indicated the main causes of the crash were errors made by the aircraft crew and poor organization of the airport traffic control service. Contributing factors included limited visibility in poor weather conditions and failure to properly clear the runway of snow.

Crews

Aeroflot Flight 65 Crews:

Captain: Viktor Arturovich Filonov
Reserve Captain: Alexander Nikolaevich Zhitov
First Officer: Nikolai Alekseevich Gureev
Reserve First Officer: Vladimir Petrovich Gromadin
Flight Engineer: Stanislav Yulianovich Dobrochinskiy
Reserve Flight Engineer: Nikolai Semyonovich Anishchenko
Senior Flight Engineer: Vladimir Belyaev
Senior Flight Engineer: Babaskin
Navigator: Nikolai Dmitrievich Solyanov
Reserve Navigator: Alexander Grigorievich Andreev
Flight Operator: Vladimir Arsentievich Golenitskiy
Reserve Flight Operator: Boris Nikolaevich Makarov
Flight Inspector: Yury Konstantinovich Valerius
Flight Attendant: Maria Mikhailovna Kedrina
Flight Attendant: Tatyana Sergeevna Vinogradova
Flight Attendant: Alla Alexandrovna Golubeva
Reserve Flight Attendant: Olga Vladimirovna Mikhailova
Reserve Flight Attendant: Anatoly Pavlovich Molokanov
Reserve Flight Attendant: Lyudmila Pavlovna Markova

References

"Plane crash of Tu-114 TU MVL GA Sheremetyevo Airport". en.avia.pro. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
"Accident Details". planecrashinfo.com. Retrieved 26 January 2017.

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in 1966 (1966)
Jan 14 Avianca Flight 03Jan 17 Palomares incidentJan 24 Air India Flight 101Jan 28 Lufthansa Flight 005Feb 2 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 17Feb 4 All Nippon Airways Flight 60Feb 16 Aeroflot Flight 302Feb 17 Aeroflot Flight 65Feb 28 NASA T-38 crashMar 4 Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402Mar 5 BOAC Flight 911Mar 18 United Arab Airlines Flight 749Apr 22 American Flyers Airline Flight 280/DApr 23 Aeroflot Flight 2723Apr 27 LANSA Flight 501Jun 3 Felthorpe Trident crashJun 29 Philippine Air Lines Flight 785Jul 4 Air New Zealand DC-8 crashJul 22 Holden's Lightning flightAug 6 Braniff Flight 250Sep 1 Britannia Airways Flight 105Sep 22 Ansett-ANA Flight 149Sep 28 Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 648 hijackingOct 1 West Coast Airlines Flight 956Nov 13 All Nippon Airways Flight 533Nov 15 Pan Am Flight 708Nov 24 TABSO Flight 101Dec 24 Flying Tiger Line Canadair CL-44 crash
1965 ◄ ► 1967

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1966 (1966)

Jan 14 Avianca Flight 03Jan 17 Palomares incidentJan 24 Air India Flight 101Jan 28 Lufthansa Flight 005Feb 2 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 17Feb 4 All Nippon Airways Flight 60Feb 16 Aeroflot Flight 302Feb 17 Aeroflot Flight 65Feb 28 NASA T-38 crashMar 4 Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402Mar 5 BOAC Flight 911Mar 18 United Arab Airlines Flight 749Apr 22 American Flyers Airline Flight 280/DApr 23 Aeroflot Flight 2723Apr 27 LANSA Flight 501Jun 3 Felthorpe Trident crashJun 29 Philippine Air Lines Flight 785Jul 4 Air New Zealand DC-8 crashJul 22 Holden's Lightning flightAug 6 Braniff Flight 250Sep 1 Britannia Airways Flight 105Sep 22 Ansett-ANA Flight 149Sep 28 Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 648 hijackingOct 1 West Coast Airlines Flight 956Nov 13 All Nippon Airways Flight 533Nov 15 Pan Am Flight 708Nov 24 TABSO Flight 101Dec 24 Flying Tiger Line Canadair CL-44 crash

1965 ◄ ► 1967

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union in the 1960s
1960	Aeroflot Flight 315 (February 1960) U-2 incident (May 1960) Aeroflot Flight 207 (June 1960) RB-47 shootdown incident (July 1960) Aeroflot Flight 036 (August 1960) Austrian Airlines Flight 901 (September 1960)
1961	Aeroflot Flight 068 (March 1961) Aeroflot Flight 245 (17 December 1961) Mineralnye Vody Aeroflot Il-18 crash (31 December 1961)
1962	Aeroflot Flight 902 (June 1962) Aeroflot Flight 415 (July 1962) Aeroflot Flight 03 (3 September 1962) Aeroflot Flight 213 (18 September 1962)
1963	Aeroflot Flight 191 (March 1963) Aeroflot Flight 25 (April 1963) Aeroflot Flight 012 (July 1963) Aeroflot Flight 366 (21 August 1963) Aeroflot Flight 663 (24 August 1963)
1964	Aeroflot Flight 721 (September 1964)
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1966	Aeroflot Flight 302 (16 February 1966) Aeroflot Flight 065 (17 February 1966) Aeroflot Flight 2723 (April 1966)
1967	Aeroflot Flight 5003 (January 1967) Aeroflot Flight 2230 (November 1967) Aeroflot Flight L-51 (December 1967)
1968	Aeroflot Flight 15 (February 1968) Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253A (July 1968)
1969	Yukhnov mid-air collision (23 June 1969) Aeroflot Flight F-28 (28 June 1969) Aeroflot Flight N-826 (3 August 1969) Aeroflot Flight 1770 (26 August 1969)
1950–1959 ◄ 1960–1969 ► 1970–1979

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