1948 Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-12 crash

1948 Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-12 crash
	An Aeroflot Illyuşin Il-12
Accident
Date	October 12, 1948
Summary	The debris has never been found
Site	Yevlakh, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Ilyushin Il-12
Operator	Aeroflot
Registration	CCCP-L1450
Flight origin	Tashkent Airport, Uzbekistan SSR, Soviet Union
Stopover	Baku Airport, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Destination	Tbilisi Airport, Georgia SSR, Soviet Union
Passengers	6
Crew	4
Fatalities	10
Survivors	0

On October 12, 1948, an Ilyushin Il-12 operating by Aeroflot crashed during a scheduled flight from Baku Airport to Tbilisi Airport. All ten people aboard the aircraft died.

Aircraft

The crashed aircraft was a twin-engine Ilyushin Il-12 (serial number: 25-17). The aircraft flew first time in 1948 and was given to the Uzbekistan fleet of Aeroflot. It got the tail number CCCP-L1450. It had 274 flight hours when the accident happened.[1]

Flight and the accident

The crew and aircraft took off from Tbilisi Airport to go to Tashkent Airport via Baku Airport stopover. They arrived at Baku Airport on 11 October 1948 at 11:15 AM, but they couldn't go to Tbilisi Airport the same day because of bad weather conditions in the route. The next day, the crew prepared to go to Tbilisi Airport, but meanwhile Baku Airport has been closed to flights due to stormy weather. Nevertheless, the aircraft was allowed to take off. They took off on October 12, 1948, at 10:40 AM and climbed to 3000 meters. And then, the crew experienced navigation problems and decided to go back to Baku Airport. The aircraft could not be communicated again. The aircraft disappeared, and the debris was never found.[2][3]

References

"✈ russianplanes.net ✈ наша авиация". russianplanes.net. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin Il-12 CCCP-L1450 Yevlakh". aviation-safety.net. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
"Исчезновение Ил-12 Узбекского управления ГВФ в горах Главного Кавказского хребта (борт СССР-Л1450), 12 октября 1948 года. // AirDisaster.ru - авиационные происшествия, инциденты и авиакатастрофы в СССР и России - факты, история, статистика". airdisaster.ru. Archived from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 12 July 2021.

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[1] "✈ russianplanes.net ✈ наша авиация". russianplanes.net. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2021.

[2] Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin Il-12 CCCP-L1450 Yevlakh". aviation-safety.net. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2021.

[3] "Исчезновение Ил-12 Узбекского управления ГВФ в горах Главного Кавказского хребта (борт СССР-Л1450), 12 октября 1948 года. // AirDisaster.ru - авиационные происшествия, инциденты и авиакатастрофы в СССР и России - факты, история, статистика". airdisaster.ru. Archived from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 12 July 2021.