Ilyushin II-18 crash, Nov 16, 1967 (107 killed), Sverdlov...

Ilyushin II-18 accident on November 16, 1967 near Sverdlovsk-Koltsovo Sverdlovsk oblast, Russia with 107 fatalities.

Aeroflot Flight 2230, an Ilyushin airliner on a scheduled service from Sverdlovsk to Tashkent, lost an engine shortly after takeoff at night on 16 November 1967. The crew could not shut the engine down or feather its propeller, the aircraft banked right and descended, and it crashed into a plowed field about 2.9 km east of the airport. All 107 people aboard were killed.

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