Chelyabinsk – Kuybyshev

On October 24, 1943 at 10:10 AM, Chelyabinsk – Kuybyshev experienced a crash involving Tupolev ANT-6 (TB-3 & G-2), operated by Aeroflot - Russian International Airlines, with the event recorded near Salavat Republic of Bashkortostan.

The flight was categorized as cargo and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 4 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 20.0%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is weather. The crew was performing a cargo flight from Chelyabinsk to Kuybyshev with a load of various goods for a total weight of 2,543 kilos. About 50 minutes after its departure from Chelyabinsk Airport, while approaching the Ural mountains at an altitude of 700 meters, the crew realized he would not be able to overfly the mountain range so he made a turn to the left and slowly climbed to 1,200 meters. Few minutes later, the aircraft encountered katabatic winds, snow falls, strong winds and turbulences. As the crew was unable to maintain a safe altitude and to overfly the mountain range, the captain decided to attempt an emergency landing. At a speed of 65 km/h, he made a last turn to the left when the aircraft hit tree tops and crashed in flames in a wooded area located on the slope of a mountain. Three crew members were unhurt, one was slightly injured while the female copilot was killed, apparently by a heart attack. The aircraft was partially destroyed by a post crash fire. The aircraft was a Tupolev G-2, a cargo version of the ANT-6.

Aircraft reference details include registration CCCP-L3050, MSN 22 183, year of manufacture 10.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 53.3617°, 55.9246°.