The number of recorded fatalities aboard Aeroflot aircraft during the decade rose to 1801 likewise, 175 of its aircraft were written off in accidents or incidents, split into six Antonov An-10s, 13 Antonov An-12s, 54 Antonov An-2s, two Antonov An-6s, 8 Antonov An-24s, two Avia 14s, one Ilyushin Il-12, 22 Ilyushin Il-14s, 31 Ilyushin Il-18s, 12 Lisunov Li-2s, 14 Tupolev Tu-104s, two Tupolev Tu-114s, and five Tupolev Tu-124s. The decade was also marked by the only deadly accident experienced by a Tupolev Tu-114, which entered commercial service on the Moscow– Khabarovsk route in April 1961 ( 1961-04). Another aircraft of the type was involved in the second deadliest accident the airline experienced in the decade, this time in September 1964 ( 1964-09), when 87 people were killed when the aircraft struck a hillside on approach to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. In terms of fatalities, the accident ranks as the fifth worst involving an Il-18, as of April 2016. The deadliest event the Soviet Union's flag carrier went through in the decade occurred in November 1967 ( 1967-11), when an Ilyushin Il-18V crashed upside down shortly after takeoff from Koltsovo Airport in Sverdlovsk, then located in the Russian SSR, killing all 107 occupants on board, prompting the temporary grounding of the type within the airline's fleet.

An Ilyushin Il-18V, similar to the one involved in the deadliest accident the carrier experienced during the decade, is seen here at Glasgow Prestwick Airport in the late 1960s.įollowing is a list of accidents and incidents Aeroflot experienced in the 1960s.

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