Aeroflot Flight 418 | |
Occurrence Type: | Accident |
Type: | Undetermined (possible radar failure) |
Site: | Bioko, Equatorial Guinea |
Coordinates: | 3.5°N 50°W |
Aircraft Type: | Tupolev Tu-154A |
Operator: | Aeroflot |
Tail Number: | CCCP-85102 |
Origin: | Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Luanda, Angola |
Stopover: | Malabo International Airport, Bioko, Equatorial Guinea |
Stopover0: | N'Djamena International Airport, Chad |
Last Stopover: | Tripoli International Airport, Libya |
Destination: | Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, USSR |
Passengers: | 42 |
Crew: | 4 |
Fatalities: | 46 |
Survivors: | 0 |
Aeroflot Flight 418 was an international passenger flight operated by a Tupolev Tu-154A, registered CCCP-85102, that was operating the second leg of a scheduled Luanda–Malabo–N'Djamena–Tripoli–Moscow passenger service. The plane crashed on into a mountain near Malabo Airport on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea on 1 June 1976.
The aircraft was en route from Quatro de Fevereiro Airport to Malabo International Airport when it struck a mountain high at Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. All 42 passengers and 4 crew perished.
The cause of the accident could not be determined, but the investigation commission suspected a possible failure of the MSRP-12 radar on the aircraft may have led the crew to be unaware of their position.