Collision over Vnukovo (1948)
Aeroflot (Uzbek Territorial Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet, 5th Transport Aviation Detachment) Ilyushin Il-12 and Aeroflot (Moscow Directorate of Transport Aviation of the Civil Air Fleet, 27th Aviation Transport Detachment) TS-62 · On Thursday, 23 December 1948, an Il-12 and a TS-62 collided in the sky in the area of Vnukovo airport, resulting in the deaths of 12 people
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 12 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Aircraft 1 · Ilyushin Il-12
- Aircraft type
- Ilyushin IL-12
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- CCCP-L1328
- Operator
- Aeroflot (Uzbek Territorial Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet, 5th Transport Aviation Detachment)
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- Route
- From M. V. Frunze Central Aerodrome, Moscow, RSFSRTo Yuzhny, Tashkent, Uzbek SSR
Aircraft 2 · TS-62
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
On Thursday, 23 December 1948, an Il-12 and a TS-62 collided in the sky in the area of Vnukovo airport, resulting in the deaths of 12 people.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Столкновение над Внуковом (1948)” (revision 150406274, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Russian Wikipedia article: Столкновение над Внуковом (1948)
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 150406274 · 2025-12-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q16702243
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ru Wikipedia article "Столкновение над Внуковом (1948)" (page 4474103, revision 150406274), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): Both aircraft belonged to Aeroflot transport detachments of the Civil Air Fleet: state airline transport flights. The article: "operator Aeroflot (Uzbek Territorial Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet, 5th Transport Aviation Detachment)"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.