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Date: | Tuesday 12 May 1942 |
Type: | Lisunov PS-84 |
Operator: | State Aviation Plant No.18 |
Registration: | registration unknown |
MSN: | 1842406 |
First flight: | 1942 |
Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Passengers: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Total: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Damaged beyond repair |
Location: | 9 km (5.6 mls) SE of Kordon, Visim-Shaitanka district, Sverdlovsk region ( Russia)
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Phase: | En route (ENR) |
Nature: | Domestic Non Scheduled Passenger |
Departure airport: | Kuybyshev-Bezymyanka Airfield (UWWG), Russia |
Destination airport: | ? |
Narrative:En route the flight encountered poor visibility. The pilot descended to 700 metres and the aircraft impacted the summit of Mount Golaya (a.k.a Mount Shaitan) in the Vesyolyye gory Range.
All 6 occupants died, among them the director of Factory No. 18, Matvei B. Shenkman. The wreckage was located two days later.
The aircraft operated on a flight to the Nizhny Tagil Aviation Plant No.381.
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.