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The airplane crashed in unknown circumstances while on a flight from Moscow-Myachkovo and Yelets. Lost without trace.

The airplane departed Ust-Bolsheretsk on a flight to Tilichiki, carrying three crew members and two people from the Soviet Communist Party. After a flight of two hours and 30 minutes, the airplane landed in Ust-Kamchatsk where the crew passed the overnight. At the airport, the crew consumed alcohol and failed to sleep enough time. The next day, on March 12, the airplane took off at noon for Tilichiki despite the pilot was not fit. At 1241LT, the radio operator informed ground that he passed Ozernaya at an altitude of 1,500 metres. Half an hour later, while cruising in good weather conditions, the airplane entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed in the taiga about 22 km north of the village of Uka. The wreckage was found the next day and all five occupants were killed.

On final approach to Kabul Airport at night, the airplane crashed in a snow cover field and was destroyed. Both occupants were injured and the diplomatic mail was damaged.

The airplane departed Stalinabad on a flight to Khorugh, carrying six passengers (four adults and two children) and one pilot. En route, weather conditions deteriorated and the visibility was poor. Despite the situation, the pilot decided to continue. Flying in clouds, the airplane struck a rock and crashed in deep snow at an altitude of 3,900 metres near the Odudi Pass. All seven occupants survived the accident with minor injuries but without any food and in extreme conditions with very low outside temperature. Twelve days after the accident, the pilot and three passengers tried to find help and left the crash site. During this trip, a passenger died of cold. On May 12, an expedition was sent to the crash site and found a woman and her two children aged one and nine died of cold and hunger.

Following a flight from Dushanbe, the single engine airplane crashed upon landing at Khorugh Airfield and was damaged beyond repair.

The pilot was engaged in a communication flight with the Red Army behind the enemy lines when the airplane apparently crashed in the region of Vyazma. It failed to return to base and was lost without trace.

Weather conditions worsened and the pilot was forced to attempt an emergency landing. In poor visibility, the airplane impacted the ground and crashed. There were no casualties among the occupants.

Weather conditions deteriorated in flight with poor visibility due to snow falls. Rather than returning to his departure point, the pilot decided to continue when the airplane later crashed in a field located near Arsk. All five occupants were injured.

The airplane departed Murmashi Airport in Murmansk on an ambulance flight to Arkhangelsk, carrying four wounded soldiers and one pilot. About two hours into the flight, the engine started to lose power and later failed. The pilot attempted an emergency landing when the airplane crashed in a bog located 270 km southeast of Murmansk and came to rest upside down. All four passengers escaped injured while the pilot was killed. The aircraft was later destroyed by an unintentional fire set up by the passengers who were smoking around the wreckage.

The single engine airplane departed Petrozavodsk Airport at 0920LT on a cargo flight to Pudozh, carrying one pilot and a load of 553 kg of various goods. Prior to the flight, the pilot was instructed by the chief pilot that in case of weather deterioration, he should fly around Lake Onega. Weather conditions worsened en route and the visibility was too low when the airplane crashed in a snow covered field located about 9 km south of Shala Pristan. The wreckage was found at the end of the afternoon by another pilot flying from Pudozh to Petrozavodsk. The aircraft was destroyed and the pilot was killed.