A large-scale plane crash, which was the result of a mid-air collision between two aircraft - a civilian Il-14M, owned by Aeroflot, and a military An-12BP - occurred on June 23, 1969. On that day, 120 people died in the sky over the Kaluga region near the villages of Troitsa and Vypolzovo.
The tragedy caused a wide public outcry and became the subject of close monitoring by the top leadership of the USSR. Members of the special commission, who were supposed to establish the reasons for what happened, quickly coped with the task.
Rapprochement
They established that when approaching the scene of the tragedy, the commander of the Il-14M crew, who led the flight from the Lithuanian city of Kanuas to Ryazan, contacted the dispatcher and asked him for permission to pass through dense clouds at an altitude of 3,000 meters. There were 91 paratroopers and 5 crew members on board the military aircraft.
At the same time, an An-12BP civil aircraft flying along the route Moscow - Chernigov - Simferopol, due to poor visibility and difficult meteorological conditions, attempted to rise above the clouds.
Since the Il-14M was moving in the opposite direction at the same altitude, the air traffic controller recommended that the crew commander take the prescribed flight level of 2,700 meters, or descend 500 meters lower. Having descended under the clouds, the plane risked getting into even more roughness, and therefore the pilots decided to stay at their flight level.
At approximately 14:50, crew members of both aircraft got in touch and reported on the flight parameters. The controller, who was convinced that he had separated the aircraft to a safe distance, confirmed the need to proceed in the given direction.
Mutual violation
Literally two minutes after contacting the dispatcher, the An-12BP, at a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour, touched the right side of the Il-14M with its wing, and then crashed into its tail. The military plane immediately lost control, broke into three parts and crashed to the ground. The passenger airliner fell into a deep dive and crashed into the ground at a distance of more than 3 kilometers from the place where the Il-14M crashed.
The aircraft were unable to avoid a collision in the sky, since both crews slightly violated the altitudes established by the dispatcher for safe passage.
On June 23, 1969, the largest aircraft collision occurred on the territory of present-day Russia, when a military transport An-12BP and a civilian Il-14M of Aeroflot collided in the sky over the Yukhnovsky district of the Kaluga region. As a result of the disaster, everyone on both planes died - 120 people: 96 people on board the An-12 and 24 people on board the Il-14.
On that day, the 6th parachute company of the 108th Guards Parachute Regiment of the 7th Guards Airborne Division was tasked with flying from Kaunas to Ryazan, where they had to show their combat prowess while operating airborne combat vehicles To the Minister of Defense of the USSR A. A. Grechko. In total, the group included 4 An-12 aircraft from the 600th Military Transport Aviation Regiment: 2 with equipment were supposed to fly at a flight level of 6000 meters, and 2 with personnel at flight levels of 3600 and 3000 meters at intervals of 8-10 minutes. At 13:25, the trailing 4th An-12BP with call sign 08525 (serial number 402503) took off from Kėdainiai airbase and took off at a flight level of 3000 meters. There were 5 crew members on board, including pilots Major Alexey Viktorovich Ryabtsev, Jr. Lieutenant Vladimir Vasilyevich Priplov and Captain Nikolai Mikhailovich Maslyuk, as well as 91 paratroopers.
At 14:07, an Il-14M with tail number USSR-52018 (serial number 7343208) of the Simferopol United Aviation Squadron (Aeroflot) took off from Moscow Bykovo airport, operating flight No. 831 (Moscow-Chernigov-Simferopol). On board there were 5 crew members, including PIC Georgy Matveevich Pavlenko and co-pilot Viktor Pavlovich Buyanov, as well as 19 passengers. After departure, the Il-14 occupied the prescribed flight level of 2700 meters.
At 14:40:55, the Il-14 crew contacted the south-west dispatcher of the Moscow Regional Dispatch Service and reported that there were cumulus clouds and turbulence on its flight route, and therefore requested permission to ascend to an altitude of 3300 meters. However, due to the presence of an oncoming aircraft at a flight level of 3000 m, the controller refused to raise the flight level, instead suggesting that flight 831 maintain the flight level altitude and avoid cloud cover or descend to 2100 or 1500 m. The IL-14 crew chose the 1st option, having considered that at a lower altitude even greater turbulence was possible, and, maintaining an altitude of 2700 m, he began to bypass the clouds, reaching the route 30 km south of Yukhnov, flying in the same direction.
At 14:50:17, the An-12 flew past the Yukhnov control point, after which the western direction controller transferred control to the southwestern direction controller. At 14:51:03, the An-12 crew, having switched to the frequency of this direction, reported to the dispatch service that Yukhnov was flying above the clouds at an altitude of 3000 meters, after which they received confirmation to proceed at the same altitude in the direction of Tula-Venev.
At 14:52, 28 kilometers southeast of Yukhnov, an An-12 (course 106-121°, speed 500-529 km/h) at a relative angle of 51-56° crashed into an Il-14 (course 235-245°, speed 324 -360 km/h). The planes first collided with their right wings, An then crashed into the tail of Il-a. The impact of the military aircraft tore off the right wing along with the engines, after which it went into a tailspin and rushed to the ground. The right wing and upper part of the fuselage were torn off from the passenger plane, after which it also went into a dive. An-12 crashed into a field near the village of Vypolzovo, and an Il-14 crashed into a field near the village of Troitsa. The distance between the fallen planes was 3800 meters. The disaster killed all 96 people on board the An-12 and 24 on board the Il-14, that is, a total of 120 people. According to some unconfirmed reports, there were actually 121 dead, since senior lieutenant Boris Filipov took his 4-year-old son with him, and at the starting command post the child was not allowed through twice. Then Boris Filipov covered his son with an officer’s cape and thus carried him onto the plane. Boris Filipov was taking his son to Ryazan to visit his wife’s mother.
FROM THE CRASH SITE INSPECTION REPORT
“The crash site was a depressing sight. Fallen trees, dying flames, airplane wreckage scattered within a radius of about 100-120 meters... And among these pieces of hot metal were the bodies of the dead. Even for me, who went through the entire war “from bell to bell” , it was hard to see this human mess.
At about 9 am, the commander of the Military Transport Aviation, Marshal N. Skripko, arrived at the scene of the disaster, a few minutes later the commander of the Airborne Forces, Army General V. Margelov, and other responsible persons appeared. Everyone was in a terrible state from realizing the scale of the tragedy - there were 91 paratroopers and 5 pilots on board our plane."
The collision occurred at an altitude of 2910-2960 meters, from which it was concluded that both crews violated the established altitudes when passing powerful cumulus clouds (cloudiness - 9-10 points, lower edge - 1000-1500 meters, upper edge - 3000-3700 meters). By decision of the Commander of the Airborne Forces, Army General V.F. Margelov, fundraising began for the construction of a monument to the fallen military. In total, we managed to collect 250 thousand rubles, and a year after the disaster, a monument by the authorship of E.V. Vuchetich, which is a complex of a stele and a wall 8 meters long. On the wall there are two bas-reliefs - the figures of a kneeling mother and a paratrooper, as well as the inscription: Eternal memory to the heroic paratroopers and pilots. Next to the monument is a platform with 96 marble slabs with the names of the victims.
At the site of the crash of the passenger Il-14, a monument was erected to the fallen pilots and passengers.
On June 23, on the day of remembrance of St. Basil of Ryazan, in the village of Vypolzovo, Yukhnovsky district, ceremonial events were held at the memorial dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the death of paratroopers of the 7th Guards Airborne Division.
The event was attended by the commander of the Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation, Hero of Russia, Colonel General Vladimir Shamanov, deputy governors of the region Ruslan Smolensky and Yuri Kozhevnikov, representatives of the clergy, as well as relatives of the victims, military personnel, and residents of the region. Many guests were invited from other regions.
The solemn ceremony began with a memorial service for all fallen soldiers, which was served in the chapel of St. Vasily Ryazansky regimental priest of the Airborne Forces Archpriest Alexander and Priest Roman Bondaruk, rector of the Church of the Nativity of Christ in the village. Shchelkanovo, Yukhnovsky district. Next, flowers were laid at the memorial. Those gathered honored the memory of the fallen soldiers with a minute of silence and a gun salute.
The commander of the Russian Airborne Forces, Colonel General Vladimir Shamanov, addressed the people with an opening speech. He thanked the residents of the region, who have been caring for the memorial for 45 years and preserving the memory of the paratroopers who died in the line of duty. The Airborne Forces commander expressed special gratitude to the parents of the soldiers: “Unfortunately, many of the parents who came here in the past are no longer alive. I would like to bow to them and those still alive today - you raised worthy sons who served and were the best in the airborne troops. They fought an invisible battle and now rest on the sacred Kaluga soil. Eternal memory to the Heroes."
Deputy Governor of the region Ruslan Smolensky focused on the importance of patriotic education of the younger generation of Russians, especially taking into account the current socio-political situation. He also noted the role of current paratroopers in protecting the borders of our country: “As long as we are united, we are not afraid of anything. As long as our great and invincible army exists, our mothers, wives and children can sleep peacefully. Thank you very much, paratroopers.”
As part of the commemorative events, demonstration performances by parachutist athletes from the Center for Special Physical Training and Survival of the Airborne Forces took place on the observation deck in front of the memorial. The servicemen demonstrated hand-to-hand combat techniques and capturing an object. The celebrations ended with a concert program prepared by the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Airborne Forces and the Blue Berets VIA.
REFERENCE
In the area of the village of Vypolzovo on the night of June 22-23, 1969. a terrible tragedy occurred, considered one of the largest in the history of domestic aviation. Two planes collided in the sky: AN-12, in which paratroopers were flying and together with the flight crew there were 96 people on the plane, including one child (the son of one of the pilots, 4 years old) and an IL-14 passenger plane, in which there were 24 people. The explosion of the AN-12 was heard even in Kaluga, 50 km away. from the crash site. At that time, this disaster was not reported openly. Many people still don’t know about it. They immediately decided to erect a monument. Funds for it were collected from all airborne formations. Mainly due to jumping. The stela monument to paratroopers and pilots was erected in 1970. The author is artist and sculptor E.V. Vutechich. After reconstruction, the memorial site was opened in 2007.
The chapel, in honor of St. Basil, Bishop of Ryazan, was built through the efforts of the head of the local collective farm “Zavety Ilyich” Vasily Vysokolyan and was consecrated on the day of the 40th anniversary of the disaster in which 120 people died, June 22, 2009, so that everyone who wanted could pray and to remember those who died on JUNE 23, 1969.
based on materials from the site http://sobory.ru/
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June 23, 1913. In St. Petersburg, the Russian Knight, a four-engine aircraft designed by Igor Sikorsky, makes its first flight.
He gave rise to domestic heavy aviation. On its basis the legendary "Ilya Muromets" will be created.
June 23, 1927. At Khodynka Field, test pilot M.M. Gromov escaped with an Irving parachute from a non-exiting spin during a test flight on an I-1 fighter. This was the first rescue in the USSR of a pilot with a parachute during an emergency escape from a vehicle.
June 23, 1931. June 23 - July 1, around the world flight of W. Post and G. Getty on a Lockheed Vega, 24,500 km (USA).
June 23, 1940. Serial production of Pe-2 dive bombers (PB-100 based on VI-100) has begun. designs by V.M. Petlyakov. A total of 11,427 vehicles were produced. Himself PEtlyakov was still in prison for “organizing the Russian-fascist party” and, naturally, no one could allow the plane to be named after the prisoner.
V.M. Petlyakov “and his comrades” were released only at the end of July 1940.
June 23, 1969 In the sky over the Kaluga region, a collision occurred between a military transport An-12BP traveling from Kaunas to Ryazan and a passenger Il-14M (flight Bykovo - Chernigov). 120 people died... On that day, the 6th Airborne Company, 108th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 7th Guards Airborne Division was tasked with flying from Kaunas to Ryazan, where they had to show their combat skills while operating combat vehicles landing to the Minister of Defense of the USSR Grechko. In total, the group included 4 An-12s from the 600th Military Transport Aviation Regiment: 2 with equipment were supposed to fly at a flight level of 6000 meters, and 2 with personnel at flight levels of 3600 and 3000 meters at intervals of 8-10 minutes. At 13:25, the trailing 4th An-12BP took off from the Kėdainiai airbase and occupied a flight level of 3000 meters. On board there were 5 crew members, as well as 91 paratroopers.
On counter-intersecting courses 28 km southeast of Yukhnov, they converged... An-12 speed 500 - 529 km/h. IL-14 speed 324 - 360 km/h.
The largest aircraft collision in what is now Russia and the largest plane crash in the Kaluga region.
The initial collision occurred with right planes. Then the nose of the An-12 collided with the right horizontal stabilizer of the Il-14. The right wing of the An-12, along with its engines, separated. Il-14 lost the right wing console and the upper part of the fuselage.
The planes that lost control fell 3,800 m from each other. The area in the disaster area consisted of agricultural fields with isolated copses. Weather: cloudiness 9-10 points. The lower edge is 1,000 - 1,500 m, the upper edge is 3,000 - 3,700 m. There were no dangerous phenomena.
The collision occurred at an altitude of 2910 - 2960 meters, from which it was concluded that both crews violated the established altitudes when passing powerful cumulus clouds (cloudiness 9-10 points, the lower edge - 1000 - 1500 meters, upper - 3000 - 3700 meters).
All passengers and crew members (there were 91 paratroopers and 5 crew on board the An-12, 24 people on board the Il-14) were killed. The cause of the disaster, according to the commission that investigated the accident: the crews did not maintain the altitudes set for them when avoiding powerful cumulus clouds.
According to the military man, “the scene of the disaster was a depressing sight. Fallen trees, dying flames, airplane wreckage scattered within a radius of approximately 100 - 120 meters... And among these pieces of hot metal were the bodies of the dead. Even for me, who went through the entire war, “from bell to bell,” it was hard to see this human mess. At about 9 am, the commander of the Airborne Forces, Marshal N. Skripko, arrived at the scene of the disaster, a few minutes later the commander of the Airborne Forces, Army General V. Margelov, and other responsible persons appeared. Everyone was in a terrible state from the realization of the scale of the tragedy - there were 91 paratroopers and 5 pilots on board our plane."
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June 23, 1985 Sikh terrorists blew up an Air India Boeing 747-237B over the Atlantic, killing 329 people.
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June 23, 1987 Pilots I.V. Votintsev and N.F. Sadovnikov on the T10U-2 (Su-27UB) completed a direct flight with four in-flight refuelings, a range of 13,440 km (15 hours 42 minutes), along the route Moscow - Komsomolsk-on-Amur - Moscow.
June 23, 1988 First flight of the carrier-based MiG-29K (“9-31”). Piloted by T.O. Aubakirov. Single-seat shipborne fighter for deployment on the TAVKR type "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov", a modification of the multi-role front-line fighter MiG-29M (the degree of unification reaches 80 - 85%).
The first version of the MiG-29K carrier-based fighter (still based on the 9-12 type) with ejection takeoff and landing on an arresting arrester was developed at the preliminary design level in 1978 and differed from the basic type in a reinforced landing gear, the introduction of a landing hook, additional anti-corrosion protection for the airframe, increased fuel reserves and modified navigation equipment.
June 23, 2011. MiG-29KUB crash near Akhtubinsk. Test pilots 1st class GLITs Air Force, colonels A.P. were killed. Kruzhalin and O.L. Match.
During a test flight in the Astrakhan region, the pilots did everything to save the prototype. They did not take their plane anywhere, they simply did not have such an opportunity. This does not in any way detract from the actions of the crew: they found themselves in a previously unexplored regime. The crew was spinning in a free square; there was no way to turn away, nor to jump.
July 23, 2014 I WAS A WITNESS TO THIS AIR CRASH. OUR COMPANY AT THAT TIME STANDED NEAR THE VILLAGE OF UTYOSCHEVO. WE WERE DOING IMPROVEMENT OF OUR TENT CITY WHEN WE HEARD A HOWLING IN THE SKY OVER OUR HEAD. RAISING MY HEAD, I SAW THE AN-12 GO INTO A STEP DIVE AND BURNED OUT. AND SOMETHING SEEMED TO FALL AWAY FROM HIM - IT WAS ANOTHER PLANE FELL, ROTATING AND FLAWING UP. THE COMMANDER SENT ME AND THREE OTHER SOLDIERS TO THE PLACE OF THE FALL OF THE AN-12. WE RUN THROUGH THE FOREST AND WETLANDS FOR ABOUT 12-15KM. WHEN THEY ARRIVED TO THE SITE OF THE PLANE CRASH, THERE WERE ALREADY RESIDENTS OF THE VILLAGE ADJACENT TO THE CRASH SITE. ALSO, SOME OFFICER ALREADY WAS THERE WITH SEVERAL SOLDIERS. TOGETHER WITH THEM, HE PUT US IN A CORDON OF THE SITE OF THE PLANE CRASH. WE BARELY MANAGED TO KEEP THE LOCAL RESIDENTS AWAY FROM THE WRECKAGE OF THE PLANE. I TELL YOU, IT WAS A SCARY SIGHT TO LOOK AT THIS PILE OF PLANE WRITTEN AND FRAGMENTS OF HUMAN BODIES. WHERE ALREADY IN THE AFTERNOON FOUR ZIL-131V CAME WITH SOLDIERS OF OUR COMPANY. WE SPENT THE NIGHT THERE, PITCHING TENTS NEAR THE PLANE CRASH. ON THE MORNING OF THE NEXT DAY ABOUT A DOZEN AND A HALF HELICOPTERS ARRIVED. THE ENTIRE MANAGEMENT ARRIVED, LEADERED BY THE AIR FORCE COMMANDER AND THE AIR FORCE COMMANDER. THE SOLDIERS OF THE ORDER OF THE COMPANY ALSO ARRIVED FROM THAT PART WHERE THE CRASHED PATRONS CAME FROM. TOGETHER WITH THEM, WE WERE FORCED TO COLLECT HUMAN FRAGMENTS OF BODIES AND PLACE THEM IN ONE PLACE. WE Strung VERY SMALL PIECES ON A WEAPON RASHROD AS A SKEWER AND THEN SCAPPED IT ON A SPECIALLY INSTALLED SCRAPER FROM A CORNER 75*75 NEAR LARGE BODY FRAGMENTS. DURING THE DAY, ALL THE UNITS AND WRECKAGE OF THE AIRCRAFT WERE REMOVED. THE NEXT DAY, ONE AND A HALF KILOMETERS, ANOTHER ENGINE FROM THE PLANE WAS FOUND. WHERE ON THE THIRD DAY AFTER CAREFUL CLEANING AND HARGROUND OF THE TERRITORY OF THE DISASTER AND BURYING THE COLLECTED REMAINS, HELICOPTERS BEGAN TO STAY WITH RELATIVES DEAD. THIS WAS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF NERVE. PEOPLE FAD OUT ON THE FIELD FROM HYSTERICS, MANY FELL TO THE GROUND RAKING IT UNDER THEM, AND SOME ON THE CONTRARY RAKING IT AS WELL AS TRYING TO BURY IN IT AND ALL THIS WAS ACCOMPANIED BY WILD SCREAMS AND WAITINGS. STILL ALL THIS IS FIGURATIVELY STANDING BEFORE YOUR EYES. WE STAYED THERE FOR THREE DAYS. AFTER THIS, WHEN I FLEW HOME ON HOLIDAY, I WAS AFRAID TO APPROACH THE PLANE...NEVERTHELESS, I FLEW AWAY AND RETURNED AGAIN BY PLANE TO THE PLACE OF SERVICE. YOU CAN’T TELL EVERYTHING WHAT YOU HAVE TO SEE AND EXPERIENCE.....
May 18, 2016 Hello! Thank you very much for this information. I am also the daughter of a paratrooper who died in this plane crash; I was only six months old at the time. I live in the Lugansk region of Ukraine, I really want to visit the memorial, since I was there a very long time ago, in the late 80s of the last century. I really liked the restored memorial from the photo on the Internet. Thanks to all the people who take care of the memorial, low bow to YOU.
