Aeroflot Flight 065

Aeroflot Flight 065
	An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-114, similar to the aircraft involved
Accident
Date	17 February 1966
Summary	Crew and ATC errors
Site	Sheremetyevo International Airport; 55°58′12″N 37°23′16″E / 55.9699°N 37.3879°E;
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Tupolev Tu-114
Operator	Aeroflot
Registration	CCCP-76491
Flight origin	Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russian SSR
1st stopover	Conakry International Airport, Conakry, Republic of Guinea
Last stopover	Accra International Airport, Accra, Ghana
Destination	Maya-Maya Airport, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
Occupants	66
Passengers	47
Crew	19
Fatalities	21
Survivors	45

Sheremetyevo International Airport in July 2011

Aeroflot Flight 065 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by Aeroflot. On 17 February 1966, the Tupolev Tu-114 operated by the airline crashed during take-off from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, killing 21 of the 47 passengers and 19 crew members on board.^[1]

References

^ Khodarenok, Mikhail (15 November 2017). "«Огромный самолет Хрущева прибыл в США»" [Khrushchev's enormous plane arrived in the United States]. Gazeta.Ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2 December 2025.

[1] Khodarenok, Mikhail (15 November 2017). "«Огромный самолет Хрущева прибыл в США»" [Khrushchev's enormous plane arrived in the United States]. Gazeta.Ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2 December 2025.

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Aviation accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union in the 1960s
1960	Aeroflot Flight 315 (February) U-2 incident (May) Aeroflot Flight 207 (June) RB-47 shootdown incident (July) Aeroflot Flight 036 (August) Austrian Airlines Flight 901 (September)
1961	Aeroflot Flight 068 (March) Aeroflot Flight 245 (17 December) Mineralnye Vody Aeroflot Il-18 crash (31 December)
1962	Aeroflot Flight 902 (June) Aeroflot Flight 415 (July) Aeroflot Flight 03 (3 September) Aeroflot Flight 213 (18 September)
1963	Aeroflot Flight 191 (March) Aeroflot Flight 25 (April) Aeroflot Flight 012 (July) Aeroflot Flight 366 (21 August) Aeroflot Flight 663 (24 August)
1964	Aeroflot Flight 721 (September)
1965	Aeroflot Flight 101/X-20 (January) Aeroflot Flight 542 (7 March) Aeroflot Flight 513 (8 March) Khanty-Mansiysk Aeroflot An-24 crash (20 March) Aeroflot Flight 99 (November)
1966	Aeroflot Flight 302 (16 February) Aeroflot Flight 065 (17 February) Aeroflot Flight 2723 (April)
1967	Aeroflot Flight 5003 (January) Aeroflot Flight 2230 (November) Aeroflot Flight L-51 (December)
1968	Aeroflot Flight 1668 (January) Aeroflot Flight 15 (February) Death of Yuri Gagarin (March) Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253A (July)
1969	Yukhnov mid-air collision (23 June) Aeroflot Flight F-28 (28 June) Aeroflot Flight N-826 (3 August) Vnukovo Airport Il-18 crash (26 August)
1950–1959 ◄ 1960–1969 ► 1970–1979

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