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1944 Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 crash

25 Nov 1944 · Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union

Lisunov Li-2 · On 25 November 1944, a Lisunov Li-2 aircraft operated by Aeroflot crashed during a training flight

From Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD) to Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)

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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
7 · 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

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-L4111
Operator
Aeroflot
Onboard fatalities
7
Route
From Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)To Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)

Approximate · Estimated position: Baku, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.

From the Wikipedia article

On 25 November 1944, a Lisunov Li-2 aircraft operated by Aeroflot crashed during a training flight. All seven people on board were killed as a result of the crash.

Flight and crash

On 25 November 1944 the crew took off from Baku Airport at 01.50 local time for a night training flight. The training flight was planned to be carried out at an altitude of 1000 m and to last 2 hours 30 minutes. On board the aircraft were a captain, a flight engineer/instructor, a radio operator/gunner, as well as three pilots and three flight engineers observing the flight. While cruising at an altitude of 1000 m, a fire broke out on the aircraft and it crashed into the Caspian Sea off Baku. Several pieces of the wreckage were found a few days later on a beach in Baku. However, the rest of the wreckage and the bodies of the seven crew were never found.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Turkish Wikipedia article “1944 Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 kazası” (revision 29417444, 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: 1944 Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 kazası
Article
1944 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
29417444 · 2023-03-14 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q107491621
Licence
Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
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Record
tr Wikipedia article "1944 Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 kazası" (page 3018885, revision 29417444), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
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Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
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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.