Verkhnyaya Salda – Oufa

On February 7, 1949 at 10:42 AM, Verkhnyaya Salda – Oufa experienced a crash involving Junkers JU.52, operated by MAP - Ministerstvo Aviatsionnoi Promyshlennosti - Minaviaprom, with the event recorded near Beloyarsk Sverdlovsk oblast.

The flight was categorized as cargo and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley 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 technical failure. The crew left Verknyaya Salda in the morning on a cargo flight to Ufa. En route, he encountered poor weather conditions and the visibility was reduced by snow falls. As the crew did not have the appropriate charts for the region, he obtained the assistance of the ATC and was vectored to Tyumen Airport. Few minutes later, while cruising at an assigned altitude of 2,100 meters, the central engine lost power and failed. Shortly later, both other engines (left and right) lost power and produced black smoke. In such conditions, the crew was unable to maintain a safe altitude and the captain decided to make an emergency landing. The aircraft hit tree tops and crashed in a wooded area located 14 km north of Mezenka. Four crew members were injured while the captain was killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration CCCP-I511, MSN 7658, year of manufacture 1942.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 56.8590°, 61.3199°.