1947 Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 crash
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
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
- 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.