Ilyushin II-76 crash, Oct 20, 1989 (15 killed), Leninakan
Ilyushin II-76 accident on October 20, 1989 near Leninakan, Shirak, Armenia with 15 fatalities. Cause: The crew set the altimeters to a wrong pressure...
- Date: October 20, 1989
- Aircraft: Ilyushin II-76
- Location: Leninakan, Shirak, Armenia
- Fatalities: 15
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The crew set the altimeters to a wrong pressure value and descended below minimum descent altitude. They did not use the radio altimeters or follow the flight engineer's call to climb, with poor crew resource management and weak GPWS training as contributing factors.
An Aeroflot Il-76 cargo flight from Ulyanovsk to Leninakan descended below minimum altitude on approach and crashed, killing all 15 people on board. The instructor captain was making his first flight into Leninakan and the student pilot was on his first Il-76 flight.