ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340015
| Date: | Thursday 18 May 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-1-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot |
| Registration: | CCCP-L833 |
| MSN: | 11889 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 0,5 km N of Ploskin -
 Belarus
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | |
The C-47 transport plane operated on the return leg of a night-time supply flight for the "Kuibyshev" partisan unit. The pilot had the impression that the aircraft was attacked by a fighter and descended to a very low altitude. The wing collided with tree tops and the aircraft crashed in a forest 500 metres north of Ploskin in the Brest Region of Belarus. The aircraft caught fire and burnt out.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
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