Date: 18 MAY 2004
Time: ca 10:50 local
Type: Ilyushin 76TD
Operator: Azal Cargo
Registration: 4K-AZ27
Msn / C/n: 0053460827
Year built: 1985
Engines: 4 Soloviev D-30KP-2 jet engines
Crew: 7 fatalities / 7 on board
Passengers: 0 fatalities / 0 on board
Total: 7 fatalities / 7 on board
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: 10km from Urumqi Airport (URC) (China)
Phase: Climb
Nature: Cargo
Departure airport: Urumqi Airport (URC)
Destination airport: Baku Airport (BAK)
The Ilyushin freighter, loaded with clothes and convenience goods, departed Taiyuan, China at 05:50 for a cargo flight to Riga, Latvia. Intermediate stops were planned at Urumqi and Baku, Azerbaijan. The airplane touched down at Urumqi at 09:10, taxied to the apron where it was refueled. At 10:48 the flight took off from Urumqi for the next leg to Baku. Some two minutes after takeoff the plane apparently descended, crashing nose-first into a farm. The Il-76 was reportedly owned by Silk Way Airlines and leased to Azal.
By: gpb_croppers63 - 20th May 2004 at 10:19
The usual qualified response to an accident involving a Soviet/Russian aircraft. How about some sympathy for the crew and their families!!!!!!
Very well said! A crash of any aircraft is a terrible event which affects many more people than those directly involved. My sympathy to the families of the crew.
By: Jeanske_SN - 20th May 2004 at 08:14
Maybe the weight of the cargo was not known and was thus overloaded. But that would have been obious after the previous take off.
Or the elevators/trim surfaces failed…
Urumqi isn’t a very modern airport isn’t it?
By: Camaro - 20th May 2004 at 03:22
i’ve read at airdisaster that it was too hot (weather) and too heavy, wich clearly says…poor airmanship 😮 i wander about company policy :confused: too bad for the crews, but more than poor maintenance, i believe the 2 first factors are the cause.
Camaro
By: Mark L - 19th May 2004 at 18:27
As my politics teacher always tells me “less gut more brain” 😉
By: greekdude1 - 19th May 2004 at 17:26
Well DUUH, this happens all the time, I’m sure many accidents in Russia aren’t published.
Jeanske, you show some real promise sometimes by contributing valuable info and good insight. Too many times in the past, however, you just put your foot in your mouth. You really need to think about what you say sometimes.
By: MSR777 - 19th May 2004 at 17:10
The usual qualified response to an accident involving a Soviet/Russian aircraft. How about some sympathy for the crew and their families!!!!!!
By: LBARULES - 19th May 2004 at 16:24
Yep, more REAL maturity from Jeanske
By: Mark L - 19th May 2004 at 16:18
Happens no more in Russia than anywhere else, and what proof have you got that incidents are not recorded. The days of the USSR secrecy are long gone, hiding a crashed jet is rather difficult nowadays.
By: Jeanske_SN - 19th May 2004 at 15:26
Well DUUH, this happens all the time, I’m sure many accidents in Russia aren’t published.
By: KabirT - 19th May 2004 at 07:39
poor maintanence most likely.
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