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1947 Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 crash

6 Aug 1947 · Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union

Lisunov Li-2 · On 6 August 1947, a Lisunov Li-2 aircraft operated by Aeroflot crashed during a training flight

From Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD) to an unrecorded destination

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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
4 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
6
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

Lisunov Li-2

Aircraft type
Lisunov LI-2
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-L4017
Operator
Aeroflot
Onboard fatalities
4
Route
From Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)To not recorded

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 6 August 1947, a Lisunov Li-2 aircraft operated by Aeroflot crashed during a training flight. Four of the ten people on board were killed.

Crash

On the night of 6 August 1947, the crew took off from Baku Airport to carry out a training flight. While landing, at an altitude of 100 metres the aircraft slowed down to the point of stalling and the pilot turned left. The aircraft crashed at 20.40 (MSK) and three of the ten crew members on board were killed as a result of the crash. Five days after the crash, another crew member who had survived with serious injuries died.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Turkish Wikipedia article “1947 Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 kazası” (revision 29417445, 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

Turkish Wikipedia article: 1947 Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 kazası
Article
1947 Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 kazası
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
29417445 · 2023-03-14 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q107491411
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
tr Wikipedia article "1947 Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 kazası" (page 3018829, revision 29417445), 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
operator is an airline according to Wikidata
Fatalities
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Turkish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.