Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 307 - Event

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Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 307 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Sofia to Moscow that crashed on its final approach to the Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow on March 3, 1973. All 25 passengers and crew on board were killed in the crash.

Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 307
Accident
LZ-BEM, the accident aircraft
Date	3 March 1973
Summary	Atmospheric icing
Site	near Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Soviet Union
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Ilyushin Il-18
Operator	Balkan Bulgarian Airlines
Registration	LZ-BEM
Flight origin	Sofia Vrazhdebna Airport, Sofia, Bulgaria
Destination	Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Soviet Union
Passengers	17
Crew	8
Fatalities	25
Survivors	0

Aircraft

The aircraft involved was an Ilyushin Il-18V, registration LZ-BEM with the manufacturer's serial number 182005602. The aircraft first flew in 1962.[1]

Description of the accident

The aircraft was completing an international scheduled passenger flight from Sofia to Moscow when, on its second landing attempt after a missed approach, it started to lose altitude and nosedived shortly thereafter. The aircraft crashed into the ground, disintegrated, and caught fire.[1] There were no survivors among the fourteen passengers and seven crew members on board.[2]^: 81 The accident marked the 60th loss of an Ilyushin Il-18 and was also the 24th worst accident involving the type at the time of the accident. As of July 2014^[update], the event is the 35th deadliest one involving an Il-18.[1]

Icing was later determined as the possible cause of the accident.[1]

References

Accident description for LZ-BEM at the Aviation Safety Network
- "Air safety (page 80)". Flight International. 105 (3384). 17 January 1974. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014.
- "Air safety (page 81)". Flight International. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014.
- "Air safety (page 82)". Flight International. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014.
- "Air safety (page 83)". Flight International. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014.

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1973

Jan 21 Aeroflot Flight 6263
Jan 22 Kano air disaster
Jan 29 EgyptAir Flight 741
Feb 19 Aeroflot Flight 141
Feb 21 Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114
Feb 24 Aeroflot Flight 630
Feb 26 DeKalb–Peachtree Airport Learjet 24 crash
Mar 3 Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 307
Mar 5 Nantes mid-air collision
Apr 10 Invicta International Airlines Flight 435
May 11 Aeroflot Flight 6551
May 18 Aeroflot Flight 109
May 31 Indian Airlines Flight 440
Jun 3 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash
Jun 10 Nepal plane hijacking
Jun 20 Aeroméxico Flight 229
Jul 11 Varig Flight 820
Jul 22 Pan Am Flight 816
Jul 23 Japan Airlines Flight 404
Jul 23 Ozark Air Lines Flight 809
Jul 31 Delta Air Lines Flight 723
Aug 13 Aviaco Flight 118
Aug 18 Aeroflot Flight 13
Aug 28 TWA Flight 742
Sep 8 World Airways Flight 802
Sep 11 JAT Airways Flight 769
Sep 27 Texas International Airlines Flight 655
Sep 30 Aeroflot Flight 3932
Oct 13 Aeroflot Flight 964
Nov 2 Aeroflot Flight 19
Nov 3 Pan Am Flight 160
Nov 3 National Airlines Flight 27
Nov 23 Italian Air Force C-47 Argo 16 crash
Nov 25 KLM Flight 861
Dec 16 Aeroflot Flight 2022
Dec 17 Iberia Airlines Flight 933
Dec 17 Pan Am Fl. 110, Lufthansa Fl. 303 hijacking
Dec 22 Royal Air Maroc Caravelle crash

1972 ◀ ▶ 1974

Aviation accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union and Russia

Soviet
Union

1930s	Osoaviakhim-1 SSSR-V6 Osoaviakhim
1940s	1948 Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-12 crash
1950s	1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash Aeroflot Flight 04 1958 Aeroflot Tu-104 Kanash crash Aeroflot Flight 315 (1959) Aeroflot Flight 120
1960s	Aeroflot Flight 315 (1960) Aeroflot Flight 207 Aeroflot Flight 036 Austrian Airlines Flight 901 Aeroflot Flight 068 Aeroflot Flight 245 Aeroflot Flight 902 Aeroflot Flight 415 Aeroflot Flight 213 (1962) Aeroflot Flight 191 Aeroflot Flight 03 Aeroflot Flight 25 Aeroflot Flight 012 Aeroflot Flight 366 Aeroflot Flight 663 Aeroflot Flight 721 Aeroflot Flight 101/X-20 Aeroflot Flight 542 Aeroflot Flight 513 Aeroflot Flight 99 Aeroflot Flight 065 Aeroflot Flight 2723 Aeroflot Flight 5003 (1967) Aeroflot Flight 2230 Aeroflot Flight L-51 Aeroflot Flight 15 1969 Yukhnov mid-air collision Aeroflot Flight N-826
1970s	Aeroflot Flight U-45 Aeroflot Flight 1661 Aeroflot Flight 3630 1971 January 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash 1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash Aeroflot Flight 1969 Aeroflot Flight 1912 Malév Flight 110 Aeroflot Flight 773 Aeroflot Flight 2174 Aeroflot Flight 1491 Aeroflot Flight 558 Aeroflot Flight 1036 Aeroflot Flight 217 Japan Air Lines Flight 446 Aeroflot Flight 6263 Aeroflot Flight 141 Aeroflot Flight 630 Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 307 Aeroflot Flight 6551 Aeroflot Flight 109 Aeroflot Flight A-13 Aeroflot Flight 3932 Aeroflot Flight 964 Aeroflot Flight 19 Aeroflot Flight 2022 1974 Leningrad Aeroflot Il-18 crash 1974 Surgut mid-air collision Aeroflot Flight 2003 Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1976) Aeroflot Flight 909 Aeroflot Flight 1802 Aeroflot Flight 418 1976 Anapa mid-air collision Aeroflot Flight 2415 Aeroflot Flight N-36 Aeroflot Flight 3843 Aeroflot Flight 5003 (1977) Aeroflot Flight 331 1977 Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134 hijacking Aeroflot Flight B-2 Aeroflot Flight 6709 1978 Yegoryevsk Tu-144 crash Korean Air Lines Flight 902 Aeroflot Flight 1080 Aeroflot Flight 1691 1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision Aeroflot Flight 5484
1980s	Aeroflot Flight 4225 1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash Aeroflot Flight 498 1981 Armenia mid-air collision Aeroflot Flight 811 Aeroflot Flight 3603 Aeroflot Flight 8641 Aeroflot Flight 411 Aeroflot Flight 343 Aeroflot Flight 5463 Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Aeroflot Flight 601 Aeroflot Flight 3352 Aeroflot Flight 3519 Aeroflot Flight 7841 1985 Zolochiv mid-air collision Aeroflot Flight 7425 Aeroflot Flight 101/435 Aeroflot Flight 2306 Aeroflot Flight 6502 Aeroflot Flight 892 Aeroflot Flight U-505 Aeroflot Flight N-528 Aeroflot Flight 699 Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1988)

Russia

1990s	Aeroflot Flight 2808 (1992) Sakha Avia Flight 301 (1993) Baikal Airlines Flight 130 (1994) Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9045 (1994) Aeroflot Flight 593 (1994) Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 (1995) Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Flight 1023 (1997) Irkutsk Antonov An-124 crash (1997)
2000s	Omsk An-70 crash (2001) Vladivostok Air Flight 352 (2001) Grozny Mi-8 crash (2001) Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 (2001) Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Flight 9064 (2001) Shelkovskaya Mi-8 crash (2002) Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 (2002) Khankala Mi-26 crash (2002) Russian aircraft bombings (2004) Armavia Flight 967 (2006) S7 Airlines Flight 778 (2006) UTair Flight 471 (2007) Shatoy Mi-8 crash (2007) Moskovia Airlines Flight 9675 (2008) Aeroflot Flight 821 (2008) Makhachkala Il-76 collision (2009) Yakutia Ilyushin Il-76 crash (2009)
2010s	Aviastar-TU Flight 1906 (2010) Smolensk air disaster (2010) Katekavia Flight 9357 (2010) Alrosa Flight 514 (2010) Dagestan Airlines Flight 372 (2010) Kolavia Flight 348 (2011) Garbuzovo Antonov An-148 crash (2011) RusAir Flight 9605 (2011) Angara Airlines Flight 9007 (2011) Avis-Amur Flight 9209 (2011) 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash (2011) UTair Flight 120 (2012) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 (2012) Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268 (2012) Polar Airlines Flight 9949 (2013) Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 (2013) Unijet Flight 074P (2014) Flydubai Flight 981 (2016) Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations Il-76 crash (2016) Skol Airlines Flight 9375 (2016) Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash (2016) Khabarovsk Airlines Flight 463 (2017) Saratov Airlines Flight 703 (2018) UTair Flight 579 (2018) Aeroflot Flight 1492 (2019) Angara Airlines Flight 200 (2019) Ural Airlines Flight 178 (2019)
2020s	Volga-Dnepr Airlines Flight 4066 (2020) Kemerovo parachute Let L-410UVP-E crash (2021) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 (2021) Siberian Light Aviation Flight 42 (2021) Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 (2021) Menzelinsk parachute Let L-410UVP-E crash (2021) Grodno Aviakompania Flight 1252 (2021)

This includes accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union, and Russia only. It does not include accidents in other post-Soviet states after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

На других языках

- [en] Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 307

[it] Volo Balkan Bulgarian Airlines 307

Il volo Balkan Bulgarian Airlines 307 era un volo di linea internazionale della Balkan Bulgarian Airlines partito da Sofia e diretto a Mosca schiantatosi durante il suo avvicinamento finale all'Aeroporto di Mosca-Šeremet'evo il 3 marzo 1973. Tutti i 25 occupanti, tra passeggeri e membri dell'equipaggio, rimasero uccisi.

[ru] Катастрофа Ил-18 под Москвой (1973)

Катастрофа Ил-18 под Шереметьевом — авиационная катастрофа пассажирского самолёта Ил-18В болгарской компании Balkan (англ.) (рус., произошедшая в субботу 3 марта 1973 года в районе московского аэропорта Шереметьево. Авиалайнер завершал пассажирский рейс из Софии (Болгария) в Москву (СССР), когда при заходе на посадку неожиданно опустил нос и врезался в землю. Жертвами катастрофы стали 25 человек.

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