Aeroflot Flight 217 was a non-scheduled international passenger flight from Orly Airport in Paris to Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow , with a stopover at Shosseynaya Airport ( now Pulkovo Airport ) in Leningrad ( now Saint Petersburg ) . On 13 October 1972 , the Ilyushin Il-62 airliner operating the flight crashed on approach to Sheremetyevo , with the loss of all 164 passengers and crew of 10 . The fatalities include 118 Russians , 38 Chileans , 6 Algerians , one East German , and one Australian . At the time , it was the world 's deadliest aviation disaster , until it was surpassed by the Kano air disaster in 1973 . As of 2016 , the accident remains the second-deadliest one involving an Il-62 , after LOT Flight 5055 , and the second-deadliest on Russian soil , after Aeroflot Flight 3352
Kano air disaster
Kano air disaster
Aeroflot Flight 217