Accident | |
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Date | 14 June 1981 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain due to crew error |
Site | Holy Nose Peninsula in Lake Baikal, 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Ust-Barguzin, Barguzinsky District, Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian SSR, USSR 53°37′N 108°44′E / 53.617°N 108.733°E |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Ilyushin Il-14M |
Operator | Aeroflot |
Registration | CCCP-41838 |
Flight origin | Severomuysk |
Stopover | Nizhneangarsk Airport |
Destination | Baikal International Airport |
Occupants | 48 |
Passengers | 44 |
Crew | 4 |
Fatalities | 48 |
Survivors | 0 |
Aeroflot Flight 498 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Severomuysk to Ulan-Ude that crashed near Lake Baikal on 14 June 1981 en route to its planned stop at Nizhneangarsk Airport, Nizhneangarsk. All 44 passengers—including 13 children—and 4 crew members on board were killed, and the aircraft was destroyed. It remains the deadliest crash involving an Ilyushin Il-14.[1]