Crash of North Korean Jet

Date: July 1, 1983 • Location: Labé, Guinea

A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet crashed into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea, killing all 23 people on board.

The Ilyushin Il-62 is a Soviet long-range narrow-body jetliner conceived in 1960 by Ilyushin. As a successor to the popular turboprop Il-18 and with capacity for almost 200 passengers and crew, the Il-62 was the world's largest jet airliner when first flown in 1963. The seventh four engined, long-range jet airliner to fly (the predecessors being the De Havilland Comet, Avro Jetliner, Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8, Vickers VC10, and experimental Tupolev Tu-110, it was the first such type to be operated by the Soviet Union and a number of allied nations.