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Aeroflot Flight 5

Accident
Date	21 July 1949
Summary	Engine failure; CFIT
Site	Near Marga, Irkutsk Oblast, USSR
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Ilyushin Il-12P
Operator	Aeroflot (1st separate aviation group of Civil Aviation)
Registration	CCCP-Л1714
Flight origin	Vnukovo International Airport, Moscow
1st stopover	Krasnoyarsk Airport, Krasnoyarsk
Last stopover	Irkutsk Airport, Irkutsk
Destination	Khabarovsk Airport, Khabarovsk
Passengers	8
Crew	6
Fatalities	13
Survivors	1

The Il-12 crash near Marga was an aviation accident when an Ilyushin Il-12P of Aeroflot operating Aeroflot Flight 5 crashed on July 21, 1949, when the Il-12 had an engine failure; during landing, the aircraft’s wing collided with trees, leading for the aircraft to crash near Marga, resulting in the deaths of 13 people; one survived.

Aircraft

The Il-12 (also known as the Il-12P) with serial number 83012811 and production number 28-11 was manufactured by the "Banner of Labor" plant (Moscow) on November 28, 1948. The aircraft was registered with the tail number CCCP-Л1714 and was delivered to the Main Directorate of Civil Air Fleet under the USSR Council of Ministers, which assigned it to the 1st separate aviation group of the Civil Air Fleet based at Vnukovo. At the time of the accident, the aircraft had just logged just 467 flight hours.

Crew

The cockpit crew consisted of:

• Pilot-in-Command — Z. P. Ivanovich
• First officer — N. V. Kotov
• Flight engineer — Y. V. Dimitrievich
• Navigator — F. I. Yamnov
• Radio operator — V. F. Lysyagin
• Radio operator (trainee) — M. D. Velizarovich

There were also 2 couriers onboard.

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