Accident | |
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Date | 23 October 1978 |
Summary | Engine failure due to icing and crew error |
Site | Sivash Bay, 24 km southeast of Yemelyanovka, Nizhnegorsky District (Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) 45°26′N 35°10′E / 45.433°N 35.167°E |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Antonov An-24B |
Operator | Aeroflot (North Caucasian Civil Aviation Administration, Stavropol Separate Aviation Unit) |
Registration | CCCP-46327 |
Flight origin | Stavropol (Russian SFSR) |
Stopover | Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR Chișinău, Moldavian SSR |
Destination | Lviv, Ukrainian SSR |
Occupants | 26 |
Passengers | 21 |
Crew | 5 |
Fatalities | 26 |
Survivors | 0 |
Aeroflot Flight 6515 was an scheduled flight operated by Aeroflot that crashed on October 23, 1978, in Sivash Bay due to engine failure caused by icing and crew error, resulting in the deaths of all 26 people on board.