| Status: | |
| Date: | Wednesday 15 November 1944 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47 (DC-3) |
| Operator: | Aeroflot |
| Registration: | CCCP-L928 |
| MSN: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Missing |
| Aircraft fate: | Presumed damaged beyond repair |
| Location: | 120 km (75 mls) SW off Memel [Baltic Sea] ( Atlantic Ocean)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | ? |
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The aircraft operated on a supply mission from Polan to target No. 36 of the NKGB, 80 km south-west of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) in poor weather at night. The aircraft went missing over the Baltic Sea somewhere off the coast of Eastern Prussia. Last contact with the aircraft was 120 km south-west off Memel (now Klaipeda, Lithuania).
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