C-47 crash in Khabarovsk
Aeroflot (Far Eastern Territorial Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet) Douglas C-47 Skytrain · Errors by the crew and the air traffic controller
From an unrecorded airport to Khabarovsk
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
- 22 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- 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
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
- Aircraft type
- Douglas C-47
- 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-L1048
- Onboard fatalities
- 22
- Route
- From not recordedTo Khabarovsk
Approximate · Estimated position: Khabarovsk, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The C-47 crash in Khabarovsk was an aviation accident involving a Douglas C-47 Skytrain passenger aircraft of Aeroflot, which occurred on Friday 16 May 1947 in Khabarovsk; 22 people were killed.
Crash
The Douglas C-47 with registration number CCCP-L1048 of the Far Eastern Territorial Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet was operating a scheduled passenger flight to Khabarovsk, and there were 17 passengers and 5 crew members on board (aircraft commander — P. G. Karpov). In Khabarovsk at that time there were difficult weather conditions that were worse than the weather minimum, of the airport, that is, according to the rules the latter should have been closed. However, the controller cleared aircraft L1048 to land, and the crew acknowledged this clearance. The aircraft then began its landing approach, but in the poor weather conditions (probably poor visibility and (or) turbulence) it struck the mast of a broadcasting radio station with its wing. Having lost control, the machine crashed to the ground, was completely destroyed and burned. All 22 people on the aircraft were killed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа C-47 в Хабаровске” (revision 150406271, 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: Катастрофа C-47 в Хабаровске
- Article
- Катастрофа C-47 в Хабаровске
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 150406271 · 2025-12-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q19365982
- 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 "Катастрофа C-47 в Хабаровске" (page 5446813, revision 150406271), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- 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): An Aeroflot C-47 on a scheduled passenger flight: a state airline transport flight. The article: "was operating a scheduled passenger flight to Khabarovsk"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
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.