Krasnoyarsk Krai

The crew completed a cargo flight from Krasnoyarsk to Yeniseysk and was now returning to Krasnoyarsk on a ferry flight. The approach to Krasnoyarsk Airport was started 20 minutes after sunset. In limited visibility, the crew failed to realize he was flying at an insufficient altitude. Some 55 meters before the middle marker, the airplane struck tree tops then sank and struck successively a telegraphic pole, a wooden fence and a hangar before crashing in flames 85 meters after the middle marker. Three crew members were killed while the radio navigator was seriously injured. Three days later, the only survivor died from his injuries.

While in cruising altitude over a mountainous area, the airplane just past over a pass when it encountered severe turbulences and downdrafts. Elements of the left wing tip and the tail were sheared off and the airplane went out of control, plunged into the earth and crashed in a wooded area located on the slope of mountain at an altitude of 1,760 meters. The wreckage was found few hours later 80 meters below the summit and all 31 occupants were killed. Up to date, this was the worst accident involving a LI-2.

The crew (four crew members and two hydrologists) was involved in an ice reconnaissance mission over the krai of Krasnoyarsk. Following a departure from Tiksi Airport, the crew proceeded to the control of the ice located along the shore of the Laptev Sea then the Yana and Kolyma Indigirka estuaries and eventually the mouth of the Lana River. En route, weather conditions worsened and the visibility dropped due to fog. The captain decided to reduce his altitude and to descend through the clouds when the airplane struck the top of a hill and crash landed 100 meters further and a snow covered ground. All six occupants were slightly injured and later transferred to a hospital in Khatanga while the airplane was damaged beyond repair.
Crew:
A. A. Kas, pilot,
V. K. Koroteev, copilot,
N. M. Arapov, radio operator,
D. Belusov, flight engineer,
Yuri Vladimirovitch Nalimov, hydrologist,
V. Ramenskii, hydrologist.

The crew was engaged in a herbicides spraying mission on cultures located in the region of Balakhta. The evening and the night prior to the accident, both pilots drank about five bottles of vodka with three ladies and failed to sleep at their hotel. At 0450LT, they arrived at the aircraft and completed 11 rotations without problems. A pause was made to refill and in forty minutes, they drank three other bottles of vodka before taking off again at 0825LT for a 12th rotation. While flying at an altitude of 100 meters, the airplane's speed decreased and it stalled before crashing in a field located 7 km west of Balakhta. Both pilots and both passengers were killed.

On final approach to Norilsk-Nezhdanny Airport on a flight from Klin, an inexperienced air traffic controller allowed the crew to descend to 700 meters although the mountains of the Talnakhskiye gory range reach a height of 740 meters in the approach path. The aircraft collided with a mountain top (633 meters) near the Talnashki River and fell into a gorge. Seven crew members were killed and the sole survivor, the tail gunner, was seriously injured. The aircraft was destroyed.

The aircraft departed Chita Airport on October 31 on a positioning flight to Minsk with intermediate stops at Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Chelyabinsk and Kuybyshev, carrying a crew of five and four passengers, crew wife's and children. On the leg from Krasnoyarsk to Novosibirsk, weather conditions worsened and the crew elected to gain height due to icing conditions but this was denied by ATC. While cruising at an altitude between 900 and 1,500 meters, the airplane went out of control and entered a dive before crashing in flames in a dense wooded area located near Ribnoye, about 23 km east of Tamozhenka. Due to low clouds and snow falls, rescue teams could be dispatched only a day later but all SAR operations were suspended on November 22 as no trace of the aircraft nor the 9 occupants was found. These operations were restarted in May 1963 and the wreckage was eventually found on May 29, 1963. It was reported the aircraft struck the ground in a 70-80° nose down attitude and disintegrated on impact. Debris were found 200 meters around the point of impact, the engines were found three meters deep into the earth and a part of the right elevator was found 1 km from the main wreckage. The accident was not survivable.

While cruising at an altitude of 9,000 meters, the copilot was able to send a short distress call and control was lost. The airplane entered a dive and the descent took about two minutes and thirty seconds before the airplane disintegrated in a wooded area located in Voznesenka, about 28 km east of the Krasnoyarsk Airport. The aircraft was totally destroyed and all 84 occupants were killed. It was later reported that all bodies shows traces of high temperature and burns.

Crashed in unknown circumstances into the Yurgarga River. Crew fate remains unknown.

On the leg from Mys Kosistyy to Khatanga of a flight from Pevek to Moscow during the polar night, the aircraft deviated from the prescribed flight path to the left by 38 km. The crew descended prematurely and the twin engine aircraft hit the slope of a hill (340 metres high) located about 65 km from the Khatanga Airport. It came to rest upside down after some 400 metres and caught fire. The rescue teams arrived on the scene a day later, on December 31. A passenger was seriously injured while all 16 other occupants were killed.

Crashed in unknown circumstances some 60 km from Igarka, killing all three crew members.