[1][2] The aircraft involved in the accident was an Ilyushin Il-62M operated by Aeroflot, registered CCCP-86470.

The aircraft rolled off the assembly line of the Kazan production facility in April 1977.

[1] With 66 passengers on-board, the flight was intended for the Moscow-Luxembourg-Havana-Lima route but crashed on the first stopover in Luxembourg.

Five seconds later at a speed of 265 km/h (165 mph; 143 kn), the crew increased power on engine No.

This failure, sudden and unpredictable, was identified by the crew and made the aircraft uncontrollable in direction during the execution of the normal landing procedure.