An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-18, similar to the one involved in the accident
Accident
Date
11 May 1973
Summary
Loss of control; cause undetermined
Site
84 km south of Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, USSR 49°35′30″N80°23′0″E / 49.59167°N 80.38333°E / 49.59167; 80.38333
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Ilyushin Il-18B
Operator
Aeroflot
Registration
СССР-75687
Flight origin
Bina Airport, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR
Stopover
Tashkent Airport, Tashkent, Uzbek SSR
Destination
Severny Airport, Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR
Occupants
63
Passengers
55
Crew
8
Fatalities
63
Survivors
0
Aeroflot Flight 6551 (Russian: Рейс 6551 АэрофлотаReys 6551 Aeroflota) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight on an Ilyushin Il-18B from Baku to Novosibirsk with a stopover in Tashkent that crashed on 11 May 1973 over Semipalatinsk in the Kazakh SSR, killing all 63 people aboard.[1]
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