On 27 April 1974, an Aeroflot Il-18 airliner crashed while operating a charter flight from Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) to Zaporizhzhia, continuing to Krasnodar, Russia.

The plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Pulkovo Airport in Leningrad.

[1] The engine fire was caused by the uncontained failure of a faulty compressor disk.

The aircraft had been in service since 1964, and had sustained 7,501 cycles (takeoffs and landings) at the time of the crash.

The aircraft's number four engine caught fire two minutes after takeoff due to a faulty compressor disk.