Word: ilyushin
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...miles northwest of Moscow, and by some accounts was making its fourth pass at the runway. Villagers in the nearby hamlet of Krasnaya Polyana (Red Glade) suddenly heard a series of explosions. Tramping by torchlight across muddy potato fields, they found the red and silver tail of the Aeroflot Ilyushin-62 sticking out of a cold brown pond. Beneath the water, or on the fields across which the plane had skidded, were the bodies of all the passengers and crew. Unofficial reports indicated that they numbered 176, which would be the largest loss of life in the history of civil...
...would also bring to nearly 400 the number of people who have died in Aeroflot katastrofy in the past five months. Just nine days earlier, a turboprop Ilyushin-18 carrying 106 known passengers and crew crashed into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff from the resort city of Sochi. No bodies were recovered. Last June a turboprop Antonov-10 crashed near Kharkov in the Ukraine, killing 108, many of them children on their way to summer holiday camp. In addition to the three Aeroflot tragedies, 156 people died in the crash of a Soviet-manufactured Ilyushin-62, operated by Interflug...
Standees. Perhaps to counter international doubts about Aeroflot's safety record, Soviet authorities agreed to let two representatives of the U.S. Air Line Pilots Association visit Moscow to discuss the latest crash. One obvious talking point: Why was the Ilyushin permitted to attempt a landing in poor visibility when the airport's instrument landing system was out of action...
...President's mood has changed for the better after concluding the long, final negotiations for the joint communiqué at 5 this morning. He then flies to Hangchow. Remarkably, the President abandons his own jet to accompany Chou aboard a Russian-built Chinese Ilyushin aircraft. In Hangchow, he wanders through the parks and islands of historic West Lake...
...confusion. Kosygin's trip coincided with a sudden series of unusual developments. There was Fidel's planned trip to Santiago this week to help Salvador Allende celebrate his first anniversary as Chile's President. Parked barely a quarter-mile from where Kosygin's Ilyushin-62 set down was a far larger American Airlines 747 commercial jet that had been hijacked to Cuba with 229 passengers during a New York-to-Puerto Rico flight; passengers and hijacker alike were booked into the Havana Libre Hotel (the former Havana Hilton). The passengers, after a two-night stay, flew...