the crew lost sight of the lights; the captain then drew his attention away from his instruments to look for the lights, causing the aircraft to fly off course. When the controller commanded the flight to do a go-around, the inspector was looking for the lights while the pilot-in-command waited for him to instruct him to proceed with the go-around. Seconds before crashing the captain saw that the plane was about to crash and tried to avoid the collision with the ground, and only then did the Azakov command him to do a go-around. At 21:01 Moscow time the flight crashed to the right of the runway at a speed of . The landing gear was torn off and the right wings separated from the rest of the plane. The left wing and fuselage were broken into several pieces, and a fire ignited, partially burning the wreckage. The radio operator, two flight attendants and 61 of passengers (including six children) were killed in the accident. Seventeen of the survivors sustained injuries. Conclusions The causes of the accident were described as follows: The air traffic controller dispatching the flight for landing in weather below minimum safe conditions and not immediately informing the crew of such conditions; Crew error in executing the late missed approach and flying in unsafe weather. A secondary cause of the accident was the failure of METAR to provide weather reports at 20:00, 20:15 and 20:30 when the bad weather intensified, which would have helped assist the flight to determine if it should have continued with the approach. It was also noted that the head of the Kazakh Civil Aviation Directorate was not supposed to assist the crew on the flight, as he had already worked fifteen hours that day and did not have a medical certificate to fly. References Aviation accidents and incidents in 1965 Aviation accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union 101/X-20 1965 in the Soviet Union Accidents and incidents involving the Ilyushin Il-18 January 1965 events in Europe Airliner accidents and incidents involving controlled flight into terrain Airliner accidents and incidents involving fog History of Almaty 1965 in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic