Plane crash Li-2 Yakut Dep. formations GVF (139 ATO) near Oimyakon

• Date of the crash: 22.09.1961, the

• The time of the crash: 11: 12

• Country of the crash: the USSR

• Place the crash: Yakut ASSR, 95 km west Oimyakon

• Aircraft type: Li-2

• Registration of aircraft: SSSR16154

• Name of air carrier Aeroflot (USSR)

• Division: Yakut OAS CAF, 139 ao

Chronology of events:

The crew during the flight requested permission for passage to Oimyakon without planned landing in Khandyga. The crew received it in 10: 20 reported that the flight was slvershen Khandyga at an altitude of 3000 m and that the remaining fuel 600 kg. The crew 10: 50 was instructed to set-tier 3600 m and reported in 11: 00 his lesson. On board in 11: 12 was received fragmentary message "I am sixteen hundred ...". Contact him at this stop. 2 days later destroyed the aircraft was found in 95 km from the airport of destination.

Data on victims:

Total on board were people 6: 4 2 crew members and passengers. Total killed 6 people: crew 4, 2 passengers.

Details of the crash:

• Phase of flight: Horizontal (cruising) flight

• Identify the causes of the crash: equipment failure, crew error

Data on the plane:

• aircraft Brand: Lee-2

• Aircraft ID: USSR-16154

• Country where registered aircraft: the USSR

• Date of manufacture of the aircraft: 1947

• Serial number of the aircraft: 3605

Flight data:

• Tour type: Truck

• The aviation company Aeroflot (USSR)

• Division: Yakut OAS CAF, 139 ao

• The country, which was registered aviation company: USSR

• Flying from Yakutsk

• Flying in: Ojmjakon

• Original item: Yakutsk

• A final point: Zyryanka

Additional information:
Information about the crew:

• KBC Vladimir L. Ftemov

• the co-pilot Viktor Nesmachko

• flight engineer Nikolai Zhuravlev

• radio operator Vladimir Pavlovich Portyshev