ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340792
| Date: | Sunday 8 August 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lisunov PS-84 |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot |
| Registration: | CCCP-L3982 |
| MSN: | 1841910 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1941 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 1770 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 7 km from Balashov Airfield -
 Russia
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Balashov Airfield |
| Kursk-Vostochny Airport (URS/UUOK) |
The airplane operated on a cargo flight from Balashov to Kursk with a cargo of three M-105 engines. During takeoff at least one
of the engines broke loose. It broke through the cabin floor and trapped the control cable of the horizontal stabiliser which was running under the floor. The pilot tried to steer the aircraft with the trim tabs of the stabiliser, but to no avail. The aircraft crashed in the steppe some 7 km after take-off, caught fire and burnt out.
Sources:
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
Soviet Transports
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