ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 338603
| Date: | Sunday 4 March 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-25-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot |
| Registration: | CCCP-L915 |
| MSN: | 13350 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mulden -
 Russia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Wormditt Airport |
| Insterburg Airport |
The C-47 operated on a ferry flight from Wormditt (now Orneta) to Insterburg (now Chernyakhovsk) in bad visibility and snowfall. The intoxicated crew had been ordered to return to Wormditt but continued the flight towards their base. The aircraft flew so low that it touched trees with its right wing, the wing was ripped off and the aircraft crashed in a forest clearing 3 km north of Mulden (now Perevalovo) and burnt out.
Sources:
airdisaster.ru
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