CCCP-75408 — accident record & aircraft history

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Safety history

March 6, 1976Accident
While cruising by night at an altitude of 7,800 metres, the electrical system failed, causing several instruments to fail, among them gyros. Control was lost and the airplane entered a dive and eventually crashed in a nose-down angle of 70° in an open field located 150 metres from the village of Verkhnyaya Khava, about 50 km northeast of Voronezh.
Ил-18Е · 111 fatalities
The 36 volts electrical system failed in flight, causing the automatic pilot system to fail as well as instruments such as gyros. Investigations were unable to determine the exact cause of the electrical system's failure. Full accident record