Baku - Tashkent - Novosibirsk

On May 11, 1973 at 04:37 AM, Baku - Tashkent - Novosibirsk experienced a crash involving Ilyushin II-18, operated by Aeroflot - Russian International Airlines, with the event recorded near Semipalatinsk Pavlodar.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was flight at a desert crash site.

63 people were known to be on board, 63 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 8, crew fatalities: 8, passengers on board: 55, passenger fatalities: 55, other fatalities: 0.

While cruising by night at an altitude of 7,800 meters in good weather conditions, the pilot-in-command initiated a turn to the left when control was lost. The airplane entered a dive and spiraled to the ground. At an altitude of 5,000 meters, some elements of the upper wing surface and the stabilisers detached and the airplane disintegrated in the air before crashing in a steppe located about 84 km south of Semipalatinsk. Wings and stabilisers parts were found at a distance of some 3.5 km from the crash site. All 63 occupants have been killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration CCCP-75687, MSN 189 0012 02, year of manufacture 1959.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 50.1457°, 78.1978°.