ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334300
Date: | Sunday 16 February 1958 |
Time: | |
Type: | Lisunov Li-2V |
Owner/operator: | Polyarnaya Aviatsiya |
Registration: | CCCP-N502 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Mirny Ice Station -
Antarctica
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Phase: | Taxi |
Nature: | Unknown |
Departure airport: | Mirny Ice Station |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The Li-2 taxied out for takeoff at the Mirny Ice Station. Due to a locked tail skid the aircraft failed to make a U-turn to enter the runway. The airplane got stuck on the edge of the ice. An attempt was made to pull the aircraft to safety by means of a tractor, but the ice started crumbling and the aircraft fell.
The aircraft was operated by the Moscow Special Purpose Aviation Group (MAGON).
Sources:
Guus Ottenhof
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