| Date: | Friday 6 September 1946 |
| Time: | 12:05 |
| Type: |  Junkers Ju-52/3m |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot / Turkmenistan |
| Registration: | CCCP-L35 |
| MSN: | 6445 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1939 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3536 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 1 km S of Darvaza Airport -
 Turkmenistan
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Ashgabat Airport (ASB/UTAA) |
| Darvaza Airport |
A Junkers Ju-52/3m operated by Aeroflot's Turkmenistan division, crashed following the failure of the left part of the horizontal stabiliser. The aircraft on final approach to Darvaza following a flight from Ashgabat to Darvaza.
The aircraft started to climb steeply, stalled at a height of some 70-100 metres and crashed in the desert 1 km south of Darvaza.
Sources:
airdisaster.ru
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