Khabarovsk – Omsk – Sverdlovsk – Moscow

On August 11, 1950 at 02:10 AM, Khabarovsk – Omsk – Sverdlovsk – Moscow experienced a crash involving Ilyushin II-12, operated by Aeroflot - Russian International Airlines, with the event recorded near Sverdlovsk Sverdlovsk oblast.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

27 people were known to be on board, 4 fatalities were recorded, 23 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 14.8%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 22, passenger fatalities: 2, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. On the approach to land at Sverdlovsk-Koltsovo Airport by night and foggy conditions, crew dropped below the glide path due to pilot error. Aircraft touched tree tops 900 metres behind the outer marker and 160 metres to the right of the runway's extended centerline and crashed in a meadow 220 metres further on (3,100 metres from the perimeter of the airfield). Two crew and two passengers were killed while all 23 other occupants were injured, one of them seriously.

Aircraft reference details include registration CCCP-L1706, MSN 8 301 28 03, year of manufacture 0.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 56.8440°, 60.6541°.