Stalinabad – Kulyab

On January 14, 1945 at 12:00 AM, Stalinabad – Kulyab experienced a crash involving Junkers JU.52, operated by Aeroflot - Russian International Airlines, with the event recorded near Dushanbe Districts of Republican Subordination.

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

3 people were known to be on board, 3 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 3, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. On a cargo flight from Stalinabad to Kulyab when the right wing caught fire some 20 minutes into the flight (probably due to a leak in a fuel pipe). The fuel tanks in the right wing exploded, the aircraft dove into the ground and crashed into rocks in the Rangon Mountain Range located southeast of Stalinabad. All three crew members were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration CCCP-L46, MSN 6053, year of manufacture 0.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 38.5594°, 68.8301°.