Plane crash Li-2 Georgian control CAF in the mountains of the North Caucasus

• Date of the crash: 25.10.1948, the

• The time of the crash: 14: 01

• Country of the crash: the USSR

• Place the crash: Krasnodar region, south of the Art. Samurskaya

• Aircraft type: Li-2

• Registration of aircraft: SSSRL4500

• Name of air carrier Aeroflot (USSR)

• Division :: Georgian control CAF, 18 tao

Chronology of events:

The crew 13: 59 asked the last time the bearing, but it has not turned out. Communication with the crew in 14: 01 stopped. The plane went missing. The search produced no results. The Commission concluded that, perhaps, playing over the mountains of the north-western part of the Caucasus Main Range in clouds, the crew hit the ice and descending powerful airflow (bumps) and crashed in the mountains.

Data on victims:

Total on board were people 18: 4 14 crew members and passengers. Total killed 18 people: crew 4, 14 passengers.

Details of the crash:

• Phase of flight: Horizontal (cruising) flight

• Identified causes of the crash: ATC error, crew error

Data on the plane:

• aircraft Brand: Lee-2

• Aircraft ID: USSR-L4500

• Country where registered aircraft: the USSR

• Date of manufacture of the aircraft: 27.05.1948

• Serial number of the aircraft: 18429608

• Hours aircraft: 616

• Engines: 6211-536 621-529

Flight data:

• Tour type: Regular passenger

• The aviation company Aeroflot (USSR)

• Division: The Georgian control CAF, 18 tao

• The country, which was registered aviation company: USSR

• Flying from: Klukhori

• I flew to Sukhumi (Babushera)

• Original item: Klukhori

• A final point: Tbilisi

Additional information:
Information about the crew:

• KBC Leonid S. Petrov

• co-pilot Michael Kutievich Adzhba

• Boris Z. mechanic Usherzon

• radio operator Nikolai Pakin