[1][2][3] On the evening of January 15, 2009, four Il-76 military transport aircraft of the 675th Special Aviation Regiment of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs took off from Chkalovsky air base with military personnel and equipment on board, bound for Makhachkala Airport.

Their task was to unload the personnel and military equipment and return to their home Nizhny Novgorod Airport.

Before that, the Il-76 still on the ground crossed the taxiway end line but did not report its position to Air traffic control (ATC).

As a result of the collision, the cockpit of the Il-76MD (RA-76825) on the ground was destroyed, of the seven crew members of the aircraft, four were killed.

[4] One crew member who had been located in a different part of the aircraft didn’t sustain severe injury.