Aeroflot Flight 214


Aeroflot Flight 214 was a crash that occurred on 6 August 1955 involving an Ilyushin Il-14 aircraft operated by Aeroflot with tail number СССР-Л5057. The aircraft was operating a flight on the route Moscow–Stalingrad –Moscow. During the flight, the right engine failed and caught fire. The developing fire led to the destruction of the wing. The aircraft lost control and crashed. All 25 people on board were killed, including 10 members of a delegation of Norwegian women who had arrived in the USSR at the invitation of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women, and three of its staff members who were accompanying the guests. A government commission led by the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Mikhail Krunichev, arrived at the scene to investigate the causes of the accident.

Circumstances of the accident

During the war in Nazi-occupied Norway, inspired by the heroism of the defenders of Stalingrad, activists from various public organizations secretly sewed a Soviet flag, which they later presented to the Soviet military after the liberation of the country. The flag was delivered to Stalingrad and was kept in a museum there. The women's delegation was invited to visit the city. On their way back from Stalingrad, they were on the ill-fated plane.

Casualties

  1. Gullborg Nyberg — from the Women's Committee of the National Confederation of Trade Unions
  2. Alice Olsen — from the Women's Secretariat of the Norwegian Labour Party
  3. Anna Margareta Backer — from the Norwegian Association of Left-Wing Women
  4. Klara Rudvin — from the Women's Organization of the Christian People's Party
  5. Solvei Willoch — from the Women's Committee of the Communist Party of Norway
  6. Sigrid Gunderud — from the Norwegian Women's Association
  7. Magnhild Hallsjø — from the Norwegian Association of Housewives
  8. Signe Leikvam — President of the Women's League for Peace and Freedom
  9. Ingerid Resi — from the Norwegian Association for Women's Affairs
  10. Ester Pierre — from the Norwegian Tobacco Workers' Union
  11. Maria Pavlovna Popova — Secretary of the Party Organization of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women
  12. Tatyana Ivanovna Gorinova — Lecturer at AON under the Central Committee of the CPSU
  13. Inna Yuryevna Ryabova
  14. Grigory Fedorovich Shamritsky — Captain
  15. Ivan Ivanovich Turikov — Co-pilot
  16. Nikolai Timofeevich Aristarkhov — Flight Engineer
  17. Anatoly Ivanovich Shtalin — Radio Operator
  18. Maria Nikanorovna Loginova — Flight Attendant