ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340243
Date: | Saturday 4 March 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-1-DK (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Aeroflot |
Registration: | CCCP-L875 |
MSN: | 11899 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Total airframe hrs: | 341 hours |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Moskva-Vnukovo Airport (VKO) -
Russia
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
Departure airport: | Moskva-Vnukovo Airport (VKO/UUWW) |
Destination airport: | Moskva-Khodynka (Frunze) Central Aerodrome |
Narrative:The C-47 took off from Moscow's Vnukovo Airport on a positioning flight to Khodynka, also in Moscow. For training purposes the crew shut down one engine but they were not able to restart it. Th pilot then decided to return to Vnukovo, but the aircraft touched
down late, forcing the pilot to execute a go-around. Before being able to gain height, the aircraft collided with a parked Bell P-39Q Airacobra (44-2226), crashed in a revetment and burnt out.
Sources:
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