| Date: | Monday 25 October 1948 |
| Time: | 14:01 |
| Type: |  Lisunov Li-2 |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot / Georgia |
| Registration: | CCCP-L4500 |
| MSN: | 18429608 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1948 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 18 / Occupants: 18 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Samurskaya -
 Russia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Karachayevsk Airfield |
| Sukhumi-Babusheri Airport (SUI/UGSS) |
A Lisunov Li-2 passenger plane was destroyed when it crashed into a mountainside near Krasnodar, Russia. All 14 passengers and four crew members were killed.
The flight had arrived at Karachayevsk Airfield at 09:05. In a break for lunch, the crew drank vodka with some officials. The return flight to Tbilisi, with a first en route stop at Sukhumi, departed at 12:30. The plane was overloaded by 366 kg. After the departure the crew did not execute the procedure climb in a circle, and immediately set course over mountains. Weather over the mountains was poor with low clouds, strong winds and icing.
Attempts to find a route towards Adler and continue via the coast line failed. The airplane flew into the side of a mountain at an elevation of 1610 m.
The wreckage was found in August 1949.
Sources:
Michael Roch / Soviet Transports
Airdisaster.ru
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