Germany's Biggest Air Disaster - Interflug IL-62 Flight
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- Known as the Königs Wusterhausen air disaster, occurred on 14 August when an Interflug Ilyushin Il-62 crashed shortly after take-off from Berlin-Schönefeld Airport in Schönefeld, East Germany, on a holiday charter flight to Burgas, Bulgaria.
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Very high quality channel! Many thanks, videos are almost like mini movies.
After 1988 crask of POL IL 62 planes were redesigned - engines, firealarms and IL 62 became plane without any crash in next 30 years of flying. Sadly changes come after tragic losses.
Changes written in blood.
The two crashes of Polish LOT's IL-62 were caused by unauthorised design modifications an dpoor workmanship in Soviet factories. Mainly.
Malheureusement 😢
After the DC-10 redesigns it also went on to be a very reliable and safe airplane. But its reputation followed it around forever.
There were three fatal accidents of the IL62 after the second LOT crash. If you mean only at LOT then that makes no sense since they retired the IL62 only a few years later.
Absolutely horrific...great video. Thank you for sharing!!!
Thank you
@@MPCFlights You're welcome!!
The IL62 is a beautuful jet. I got to see them operating in Europe in the 1980s. It IL62, the Yak40 and the Sud Caravelle were sights to behold in the skies back then. Beautiful aircraft.
unsafe
I never saw those others but this was a good-looking plane; love that handsome big tail.
@@edwardhale4294 Nope not at all. IL62 has an excellent safety record No fatal in 30 years in fact!
Once again, due to your production wizardry, this becomes a very personal and immediate experience. It was painful to watch since we knew that their plane was burning up on them and there would be nothing they could do. So heartbreaking. Thanks for sharing this with us.
One can only imagine the terror and screams of the passengers on board......
jeffreyhearn I've read comments more stupid than yours but I cannot remember when.
Oh he's right.@@californiadreaming9216
Well presented. I remember this tragic accident ... thank you for making the story and events clearer.
You might as well be. The airliners are busier than ever screwing over passengers with every kind of charge ($$$$) they can imagine. Next, it will be pay toilets on airplanes.@spaceace1006
The only airliner I know of to have side-by-side rear mounted engines- a strange configuration which no doubt made maintenance harder,
The Vickers VC-10 has the same layout. The two planes are nearly identical.
And the Lockheed Jetstar !
@@ericblair6984 and the Lockheed Jetstar
There was even the rumor the Sowjets copied IL-62 the engine configuration of the VC-10- By the way there is amother plane with this configuration - the Lockheed Jetstar
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@@ericblair6984 Nearly would be optimistic.
I wonder sometimes how many situations like this where there is a problem with flight controls, and it seemed to correct itself, the decision not to land at the nearest airport end up in a disaster because it was decided to return to the original airport.
Great observation! Points well made. 👍👍👍
Perhaps there were no other nearby airports within the vicinity of the jet at the time of the emergency? Plus, this is the German Democratic Republic, and being an eastern bloc country, it had limited access to western block (i.e, West Germany) airspace. Very few eastern bloc airliners flew to western bloc countries.
@@amalayperson7208To Bulgaria they would not fly over West Germany.
There have been a number of crashes that could have been averted had the pilots known the real situation.
So terribly sad. RIP
Great background noises and dialog here!!!!
That is not "east" Germany, it is "Central" Germany. Eastern Germany, like "Constantinople" will be returned to their Rightful owners, one day in the future.
May all the victims rest in peace 🙏 Thank you very much for sharing.
I have watched one too many videos like this and will never, ever fly again !
Other things you should never, ever do again: Drive through an intersection. Get into an elevator. Tell a cop to get a real job. Use a public restroom. 😄
One of the few planes that ran on diesel.....
@@austindarrenor None of those things risk plunging to your death from thousands of miles in the air.
More people are killed in cars.
@@austindarrenor elevators, not a bad one indeed.
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Thank you
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They don’t want any criticism of communism they love it. For us of course not themselves
yt really are asses sometimes, or should I say google
Google is the enemy of humanity.
@@jasont9907If you think TH-cam is a communist organization, you don’t know one damn thing about economics.
I don't care if the jet was commie made operated by Germans. A tragedy is a tragedy & may these people aboard rest in peace!😪😪
Noch heute den Angehörigen.....alles ist nicht vergessen nur die Liebe zählt.....unbekannt und das Leben geht weiter
That esculated fast.
Thanks for this one. Very rarely East German Interflug is shown. Maybe one day you can cover Aeroflot flight 892 from Minsk to East Berlin, which crashed on 12 December 1986 due to pilot error, killing 72 of the 82 passengers and crew on board, including 20 of the 27 schoolchildren from city of Schwerin on their way back from the USSR on their school trip.
Visualization is with a version “M” but in reality the aircraft involved was the original version “sans suffix”
And who cares
@@Speedyrunnnyou are a loser
An eye opening watch but at the end left with profound sadness at the sight of the memorial stone. 😢
According to a fairly recent TV documention, east german investigators ruled a design flaw as the primary reason for the crash and provided a catalog of changes to prevent this kind of malfunction in the future. The manufacturer, however, declined all allegations, but silently implemented the suggested modifications in later versions of the aircraft. Also there were some efforts to make the manufacturer liable for the loss of lifes and material. But this was put down by state authorities in order not to compromise the 'friendship' between East Germany and the Soviet Union.
There's a few IL- 62s in service.
A good jet but affected by a avoidable design flaws
Its accident rate isn't any worse than other aircraft of the period
@@davidkavanagh189😂😂
@@markbantz9699 I don't know what you find funny about that? It had way less hull losses per unit built than the 707. In actual fact it was statistically a lot safer than other aircraft of the same era and mission.
I saw a model of that plane back in 1971. It's either a VCC-10 or a VCC-12 both closely similar. Never saw it except that.
The Ilyushin IL 62 was a Soviet copy of the British Vickers VC10 which was of a much better and safer design. Seems the VC10 plans the Russians got hold of were not very detailed......
Yes, a copy of Vickers VC-10
@@PaulTuck-o2d The IL version was craaaaaaaaaaaaap
In Russia VCC means Vodka Caused Crash.
The cutesy word "issue" was not in use at that time. We had PROBLEMS back then,
*Great* graphics!!!
@sludge8506 I most certainly do agree with u ,but the damn word *flight attendant * is completely INCORRECT, because if the person is a man then he is a steward, but if she is a woman 👩 then she is a stewardess, & there is no such thing whatsoever as *flight attendant * , & the word steward porcedes from the days when px traveled on ocean liners & then there was a Steward who assisted the px traveling 🧳 from one point to another, therefore the only correct wording is either Steward or Stewardess 😮😮
Thanx for utilising the time in 24hr segments, & this makes sense & is very reasonable to do this ❤😊
@@ronaldmessina4229 Google - "If you refer to someone's opinion as nitpicking, you disapprove of the fact that it concentrates on small and unimportant details, especially to try and find fault with something." [disapproval]
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Glad to know you're feeling better. Keep it up!
@@MPCFlights 😍🥰
Thankyou to pin 📌 my comment..I’m discharged from hospital and waiting for your next video❤️🇮🇳
Really very good video. Thanks
Man that would be a terrible way to go . Ugh
that glitch small like in cockpit that so creepy 8:56
Hey man nice vid what IL 62 model are you using for fsx or flight sim? I want to get a good one. Thanks
Interflug was also forced out of business because the German government-owned Lufthansa was already facing enough competition and they made sure that it would never have a real chance to survive.
Interflug was an East German state owned airline that only ever made a huge loss. After German reunification Lufthansa tried to buy 25% it was blocked, BA also considered a buyout but the airlines only real assets were airport landing slots.
Thank you for this video. Out of curiosity was there a CVR transcript, a German documentary stated that it and the FDR stopped working after takeoff?
Some comms with atc were transcribed, and yes, the cvr stopped working shortly after the failure.
@@MPCFlights Where would I find the ATC comms?
I flew quite a bit on Soviet aircrafts back in the day. If you want to see crapola planes now, check towards the West.
I would love to know what flight sim you use and where to get these excellent Soviet era aircraft from? 👌
Familiar to the accident, still this is a verry good (and schokking) representation of the facts
But how could a plane built in The Workers Paradise have a defect?
And the DC 10 or the Boeing 737 Max?
Sabotage.
@@jibberism9910 sarcasm, dude
@@joseortiz3582 sarcasm, dude
@@davidhull1481 yes
What was the FS and where can I find the model?
Decent videos. Is it too difficult to add voice over? Would be much more worthwhile.
Your name is cute - foxtrot.
Can you link me the model? Or is it just from FSX?
This flight is Interflug flight 450
The Swiss cheese was lining up even before takeoff.
It's likely the fire was already spreading even before the aircraft took off.
This was more fire than cheese
Execelente video reconstructivo buenas gráfico buena información detallada de te este vuelo muchas gracias broth saludos cordiales 💯🇨🇴✈️🙏🙌 bendicione .
! Vuelo 66 de airfrance para reconstrucción en TH-cam??
Soon hehe
great as usual !
that was a good crew and I think they would have managed to land even without the tail controls, but obviously not without the tail itself. They were doomed.
More Soviet vs. tsar quality. Thanks Messrs. Ulyanov, Sverdlov, Bronstein, and Djugashvili - did you design this fine airplane in one of the gulag camps?
Excellent video.❤
Thank you
IL-62 and IL-62M. Both soviet flying coffins. Thousands of people died.
The VC10 had 4 rear mounted engines
Is it a Sovjet built airplane?
Yes
USA could build duds as well. Think DC10 with its detachable cargo doors. Come to think of t they still can! Think 737MAX.
The placement of the engines looks odd to me. Can someone enlighten me why it was done like this? Did any Western aircraft use this method? And is there any advantage to not having the engines on the wings?
porque este no esta en el canal en español?
What game is this??
They should have headed for the closest airport rather than their point of origin.
Yes, we all know this was East Germany. What the video title is trying to say in modern times it's Germany and East Germany is now a part of Germany, and in Germany as a whole, this was the worst air disaster. It's not that hard to understand.
With thick black smoke from burning cargo and especially deicing chemicals would have most likely spelled doom for the passengers before they could get on the ground and exit the plane anyway. Even at a closer airport.
I flew on Interflug IL62
I flew on IL-62Ms numerous times between 1980 and the early 2000s. Twice from Montreal to Moscow and return on Aeroflot in 1980 and '81 and more than 15 times from Toronto to Havana and return on Cubana between 1987 and 2003. To my mind the IL-62M was was an excellent aircraft, as reliable and safe as western airliners of the time and with comfortable and spacious interiors and seating and whisper quiet in the passenger compartment due to their 4 pod mounted rear engines at the far aft of the the plane. I wish they were still flying today.
@@martinsuter3531
You're talking out of your backside! Russian planes are a disaster waiting to happen (so many design flaws). You just got lucky!
Redblade’s kidney stones are acting up again. 🙀
@@sludge8506
You're a funny fellow; it doesn't take much for you to get upset over things. Why are you so miserable?
@@redblade8160 =Yeah you're right, I got lucky...along with with quite literally *MILLIONS* of other IL-62 passengers.
👎👎👎 For saying again & again : "The situation becomes critical." ::
Moral of this story, DONT fly Iluyshin OR Tupilov!
You could also say Douglas (think DC10) or Boeing (think 737 MAX)
Very informative but sad🤔😞
I didn't know that Boeing built Ilyushin!
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Those poor pilots.
Semester that il62 is the M Model cause the clamshell reverses and that came after the crash
Passengers did not wear back packs back then...pilots had problems,not "issues"...just sayin'.
I really do feel so very sad & sorry for all of the px & the pilots who died in the terrible crash situation of the IL 62 , & I really do hope & pray 🙏 that they are now in heaven, but one must always remember the words of our LORD & SAVIOUR , JESUS CHRIST, “watch & do not waken the devil 😈, because ye do not know neither the hour nor the day of yr death 💀, so be prepared to meet thy MAKER” who will judge ye & all of the world 🌍 ❤😢😢😢
"Watch and do not waken the devil?" Not in the scriptures
Ironically most East German leaders were atheists, agnostics or plain Christian unbelievers. But a tragedy nevertheless.
That's right not in the Bible. The devil is always awake . He never sleeps@@yvetteandjorgenlarsen9753
The thing is this, the real test of any aircraft only comes when the machine flies with a full compliment of passengers and crew over distance. Only then do problems become apparent.
Should be titled, East Germanys worst air crash
not called 'tent pegs' for no reason
And now....let's hear from the experts.
Harrowing.
Flight 450 to be exact m8
I hear there are conflicting sources regarding the flight number.
Ganz genau das war in der DDR und nicht in Deutschland,das wollen wir doch unterscheiden!!
Close enough
Hopefully, Interflug will scrap the IL62s and buy VC10s after this.
They bought Airbus 310 before German unification.
@alexandermathar7780 There is a A310 sized hole in commercial aviation now.
I didn't know that the IL-62 needed a navigator. Did the DDR and other Soviet-aligned countries not have extensive radio navigation networks, or were Eastern-bloc avionics not miniaturized enough to simply be part of the instrument panels?
I know tubes stuck around a little longer in Eastern-bloc countries than they did in western electronics.
The IL 62.
A plane held together with bailing wire and flown on Vodka and prayers.
Was the captain any relation to the Pfaff sewing machine empire?
Are you thinking of Edith Piaf, the French singer, maybe?
Pfaff is a manufacturer for sewing machines.
Either way, he as well as his passengers got stitched up .
@@Gopferteckel
We get your point!
East Germany, please. No West German airline ever flew this Soviet crap.
Sintetico e drammatico.
That soviet piece of junk killed thousands, and soviets knew about engines issues and entire tail controls. All passenger aircrafts back then had dual control systems for this kind of emergencies. Not IL-62 and IL-62m..
@hj8272.
Why on earth did Germany buy that piece of junk? Germany was not a poor country at that time; they had Boeings.
@@redblade8160 Lol😂 Come on, you know very little about basic elementary history. Hint: East Germany and West Germany…
@@B737900ER
Obviously, it's you that knows very little about keeping up with history. East Germany and West Germany recovered (financially) slowly after the war, but within 25 years, the two sides were more prosperous compared to other European countries (including Great Britain). In 1972, when this aircraft incident occurred, there was no need for Germany to buy second-hand aircraft junk from Russia (Germany already had a contract with Boeing to buy their brand new aircraft).
@@redblade8160 it has nothing to do with economy. Interflug = East Germany airline, (Soviet Union controlled). You are sure they could just go ahead and buy a Boeing?🫣 The answer is obvious...
@@B737900ER
Okay, I didn't know that the Soviet Union had its clutches on East Germany... That explains the air crash in more detail.
Why put a plane on top of a plane.
It's a plane
It's in the sky
What's so great that another plane as show is on the big plane.
Waste of time and money
What a disaster
Why don't you just disable all these nasty comments?
I was thinking a lot of the comments are nasty, also, but I like freedom of speech better.
Didn't Aeroflop run a bunch of IL-62's back in the day?
Not dusrlheim duseldorf lol
That sound effect caught me off guard!! 8:37
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bruh...
This was NOT Germany, it was DDR, a independent state
The DDR was aN independent state covering part of historical and modern-day Germany. This was the worst aeroplane accident over historical and modern-day Germany.
@@anthonyflambard6472 How do You define historical Germany?
Following Your position a Russian airplane crash in Kaliningrad count to Germany?
Huge parts of modern Hungary and West Ukraine were parts of Austria, so every plane crashing there is Austrian statistics?
And if You go a little back in time most parts of Europe were part of the Roman Empire, so it is an Italian crash????
And the great debate of
‘Po-TAY-to’
‘Po-TAH-to’…
reaches the
global
international dispute!😂
It was East Germany as you well know
This was East Germany, (Germany was split East and West after World War II) totally under Russian control at the time. Of course they had to use Russian aircraft. Thank President Reagan for giving the push that encouraged the Russia to release E. Germany back to the west for unification.( unfortunately the Germans don't have much gratitude for Reagan doing this).
So, yes it was the worst crash in Germany which is reunited now.
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Tetrajet ????
"The tail detached" - soviet build sturdiness.
You don’t know much about air craft crashes do you? 😂😂😂
Cheap Vickers VC-10 copy.
Very poor comentary from someone who does'nt understand.
Who do you mean - (who do you mean doesn't understand, the narrator of the video)?
I strongly doubt that GlobeGround has served East German airports back in 1972. As well as it was the GDR, not Germany. What a piece of shitty CGI.
It was A Germany, since we had TWO of them from 1949 until 1990.
Hard to believe but the Ruskies build even worse aircraft than boing
Around this time Douglas were building DC10s that detached the cargo door without even needing a fire. Come to think of it Boeing build 737MAXs that open their doors in flight still!
@@EuroScot2023I don't mean to be mean to the name Douglas, but the name Douglas reminds me of how it feels when you belch.
This is what you get when you buy russian.
Feel free to buy Boeing... 737MAX!
Or early DC-10s.
@@jerromedrakejr9332 Boeing is at least state of art with the latest avionics, engines and whatnot. Unlike with russian crap where you get essentially a flying kolkhoz tractor running on vaccuum tubes 😎
@@Рашка-у8й And then there is the safety record that speak for itself, Russian made planes had less crashes 😎
@@Carlito_Brigante93 this supposed safety record is an optical illusion - the russian crap wasn't used nowhere as intensively as the western counterparts they were copied from.
How dare you say this hsllebed on the 16th of August without specifying the year... The channel is a joke
It does say the year genius
Half an hour just showing pictures of the plane
Can't stand video game technology. Thumbs down!
Surely that should read grahamsourpuss.