Date: | Tuesday 16 May 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Lisunov Li-2 |
Owner/operator: | Aeroflot |
Registration: | CCCP-L4063 |
MSN: | 18410810 |
Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | OT |
Location: | Kiev -
Ukraine
|
Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Unknown |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:While the aircraft was parked at an airport in Kiev the flight radio operator refueled his lighter through a filler syringe and spilled gasoline on the floor in the process.
During the test of the lighter, the floor drenched in gasoline caught fire. The plane burned down completely.
Sources:
Soviet Transports airdisaster.ru Revision history:
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