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Collision over Vnukovo (1948)

23 Dec 1948 · near the village of Valuyevo, Leninsky District, Moscow Oblast (RSFSR, USSR)

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

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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
Onboard fatalities
4
Route
From M. V. Frunze Central Aerodrome, Moscow, RSFSRTo Yuzhny, Tashkent, Uzbek SSR

Aircraft 2 · TS-62

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-L861
Onboard fatalities
8
Route
From Vnukovo, Moscow, RSFSRTo Bykovo, Moscow, RSFSR

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)
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.