Aeroflot Flight 065

Aeroflot Flight 065
An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-114, similar to the aircraft involved
Accident
Date17 February 1966 (1966-02-17)
SummaryCrew and ATC errors
Site
Aircraft
Aircraft typeTupolev Tu-114
OperatorAeroflot/International
RegistrationCCCP-76491
Flight originSheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russian SSR
1st stopoverConakry International Airport, Conakry, Republic of Guinea
Last stopoverAccra International Airport, Accra, Ghana
DestinationMaya-Maya Airport, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
Occupants66
Passengers47
Crew19
Fatalities21
Survivors45
Sheremetyevo International Airport in July 2011

Aeroflot Flight 065 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by Aeroflot. On 17 February 1966, the Tupolev Tu-114 operated by the airline crashed during take-off from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, killing 21 of the 47 passengers and 19 crew members on board.[1]

This was the only fatal crash involving the Tu-114.

Aircraft

The Tu-114 involved, registration CCCP-74691 (c/n 64M472, s/n 47-02) was manufactured at the Kuibyshev Aircraft Plant on 16 December 1964 and on 18 November 1965 was transferred to the Main Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet, who assigned it to the Sheremetyevo Flight Detachment of the Transport Directorate of International Air Lines of Civil Aviation (TU MVL GA, later named TsU MVS). At the time of the crash, the aircraft had only 93 flight hours and 19 landings.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Khodarenok, Mikhail (15 November 2017). "«Огромный самолет Хрущева прибыл в США»" [Khrushchev's enormous plane arrived in the United States]. Gazeta.Ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2 December 2025.
  2. ↑ "Accident description for CCCP-76491". Aviation Safety Network.
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