Date:	Monday 14 December 1942
Time:
Type:	Tupolev ANT-20bis
Owner/operator:	Aeroflot / Uzbekistan
Registration:	CCCP-L760
MSN:	-
Year of manufacture:	1938
Total airframe hrs:	272 hours
Engine model:	Mikulin AM-34FRNV
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 36 / Occupants: 36
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	50 km SW of Tashkent -   Uzbekistan
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Chardzhou Airport (CRZ/UTAV)
Destination airport:	Tashkent Airport (TAS/UTTT)

Narrative:
Two hours and ten minutes after takeoff from Chardzhou (CRZ), Turkmenistan, the giant ANT-20 plane was some fifty kilometres from its destination Tashkent. It was seen to lose height, descending to 500 m above the ground.
The aircraft entered a steep dive, hitting the ground at an angle of 80°.
During the investigation it was discovered that the pilot was not at the controls when the aircraft crashed. It seems that he gave the controls to a passenger who disconnected the autopilot and lost control.

Tupolev: The Man and His Aircraft / Andrei Kandalov, Paul Duffy , 1996 (ISBN 1560918993)

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