Aeroflot Flight 164 was an aviation accident involving an Il-14P aircraft which occurred on 7 September 1958 in Kazakhstan in the Martuk District, Aktobe Region.

[1][2] The aircraft was operating flight 164 from Frunze (now Bishkek) to Moscow, piloted by a crew consisting of Captain (CPT) Ivan Ignatievich Shinkarsky, First Officer Nikolai Grigoryevich Ryabov, Flight Engineer Andrey Petrovich Evich, and radio operator Alexander Gavrilovich Kositsin.

According to the weather forecast provided to the crew, the flight route from Aktyubinsk to Uralsk was expected to have stratus clouds of 6–9 oktas at an altitude of 600–1,000 metres (2,000–3,300 ft), rain, and visibility of 4–10 kilometres (2.5–6.2 mi).

The dispatcher reported back—10-okta (solid) stratus clouds at an altitude of 300–600 metres (980–1,970 ft), intermittent rain, visibility 4–10 kilometres (2.5–6.2 mi).

At 03:14, the dispatcher requested confirmation of the altitude and flight conditions, to which the aircraft reported: "1,500 meters, visual, communication with RDC established".

The lightning strike severed and melted the cables, and the electrical discharge traveled along them into the cockpit, potentially paralyzing the crew or shocking them.