| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | May 11, 1973 |
| Time: | 0437 |
| Location: | Near Semipalatinsk, USSR |
| Operator: | Aeroflot |
| Flight #: | 6551 |
| Route: | Tashkent, Uzbekistan - Novosibirsk, Russia |
| AC Type: | Ilyushin IL-18B |
| Registration: | SSR-75687 |
| cn / ln: | 189001202 |
| Aboard: | 61 (passengers:55 crew:8) |
| Fatalities: | 61 (passengers:55 crew:8) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The plane disintegrated during an emergency descent and crashed 84km from Semipalatins. Collision with a foreign object causing damage to the wing. |
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