Kedainiai - Ryazan

On June 23, 1969 at 02:52 PM, Kedainiai - Ryazan experienced a crash involving Antonov AN-12, operated by Soviet Air Force - Voyenno-vozdushnye sily CCCP, with the event recorded near Yukhnov Kaluga oblast.

The flight was categorized as military and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

96 people were known to be on board, 96 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 5, passengers on board: 91, passenger fatalities: 91, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The crew was performing a flight from Kedainiai to Ryazan with 91 soldiers and a crew of 5 returning to their base. The aircraft was in the third position of a three-aircraft formation. In the same region was cruising an Aeroflot Ilyushin II-14M registered CCCP-52018. En route from Moscow-Bykovo to Simferopol, Ukraine, via Chernigov and Kirovograd, this second aircraft was carrying 19 passengers and a crew of 5. En route, the crew of the II-14 encountered turbulences while cruising in poor weather conditions. He requested to ATC the permission to modify his altitude but this was denied due to heavy traffic. Despite he was uncleared, the captain started to climb in marginal weather conditions. Shortly later, at a height of 2,950 meters, the II-14M collided with the Soviet Air Force AN-12BP. The collision occurred when the top of the tail of the AN-12 struck the base of the fuselage of the II-14. Both aircraft went out of control, dove into the ground and crashed in a field, 800 meters from each other. All 120 occupants on both aircraft were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration CCCP-08525, MSN 4 025 03, year of manufacture 1964.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 54.7416°, 35.2264°.