The legendary landing of the Interflug IL-62 airliner on the 900 m (3000 ft) grass runway. Eastern Germany, 1989. The Ilyushin Il-62 is a Soviet long-range narrow-body jetliner conceived in 1960 by Ilyushin. As 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.[1] The seventh quad engined, long-range jet airliner to fly (the predecessors being the De Havilland Comet (1949), Avro J