ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336347
| Date: | Saturday 20 August 1949 |
| Time: | 17:30 |
| Type: | Ilyushin Il-12 |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot / Georgia |
| Registration: | CCCP-L1434 |
| MSN: | 30266 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1948 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 553 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 11 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Polukotelnikovo, Kursk region -
 Russia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Kharkov Airport (HRK/UKHH) |
| Moskva (unknown airport) |
The Il-12 operated on a flight from Tbilisi to Moscow with an en route stop at Kharkov. En route to Moscow, it encountered severe thunderstorms near Belgorod. The crew tried to navigate between two storm cells, flying at heights between 300 and 570 metres. Near Oboyan the aircraft entered an area of severe turbulence and heavy rain, got caught in a strong downwind. The aircraft lost height and impacted a field near Polukotelnikovo.
Sources:
airdisaster.ru
Soviet Transports
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