Chita – Krasnoyarsk

On February 3, 1949 at 12:00 AM, Chita – Krasnoyarsk experienced a crash involving Junkers JU.52, operated by Aeroflot - Russian International Airlines, with the event recorded near Russia All Russia.

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

2 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is weather. En route from Chita to Krasnoyarsk, the crew encountered poor weather conditions with heavy snow falls. Maybe the crew elected to make an emergency landing when the three engine aircraft hit the slope of a mountain and crashed somewhere between these two cities. While both pilots (among them captain A. F. Bazanov) were uninjured, the aircraft was written off.

Aircraft reference details include registration CCCP-L54, MSN 7335, year of manufacture 1941.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 55.8339°, 37.6218°.