Date: | Sunday 25 December 1949 |
Time: | |
Type: | Lisunov Li-2 |
Owner/operator: | Aeroflot / Uzbekistan |
Registration: | CCCP-L4719 |
MSN: | 1843260.? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 0,5 km from Aktyubinsk Airport (AKX) -
Kazakhstan
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Unknown |
Departure airport: | Kuybyshev Airport (KUF/UWWW) |
Destination airport: | Aktyubinsk Airport (AKX/UATT) |
Narrative:The aircraft operated on a flight from Moscow to Tashkent with en route stops at Kuybyshev and Aktyubinsk.
During the night-time approach to Aktyubinsk in low clouds and snowfall, the inexperienced pilots flew too slow. The Li-2 stalled at a height of some 60 metres. The pilots managed to recover the aircraft, went around and flew too slow again on the second approach. The aircraft now stalled at a height of some 15 metres and crashed 530 metres before the landing T.
One crew member broke a leg and the others were slightly injured.
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