In the Li-2 disaster in the suburbs, pilot, flight mechanic and girl died in the suburbs

As a result of the Li-2 aircraft catastrophe, a pilot, an airborneist and a girl died, according to the specified data. In total, there were five people aboard the aircraft, including the child. This was announced on Sunday by the Radio station "Echo of Moscow" on -duty services of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, which reported the details of the Saturday tragedy.

According to him, a light two -engine aircraft, on board of which there were 5 people, took off from the Mashkovo airfield on June 26 at 17:32 Moscow time. The aircraft owned by the general director of the Federation of Aviation of Russia was sent to Kaluga.

Three minutes after the take-off of Li-2 fell, catching on the cottage of the Sudshko garden partnership in the summer village of Zaozerier. The fire did not occur, none of the inhabitants of the cottage was injured.

When analyzing the wreckage of the aircraft, the bodies of three dead and two people in serious condition were found.

A crashed plane was a licensed version of DC-3

The Li-2 aircraft is a licensed version of the DC-3 aircraft (Dacota). It was Li-2 who brought the act on the surrender of fascist Germany on May 9, 1945 to Moscow, and the Banner of Victory was delivered to Li-2 to Li-2.

From 1939 to 1954, 4863 Li-2 aircraft of various modifications were produced. It was the most massive plane in the forties and fifties in the USSR, it was also exploited in Hungary, Vietnam, Bulgaria, China, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

According to the Internet site of the public aviation committee of "Memory of Aviathi Allies" Smotlet, Li-2 registration number 01300 FLO RF (Russian lovers of Russia), the factory number 23441605 was released at the factory in Tashkent in 1952 in the transport version.

For twenty years, it was used in the central flying club. Chkalova V.P. DOSAAF of the USSR as a transport aircraft of the national teams of the USSR for aircraft, glider, parachute sports and had a registration number of the Air Force "03".

In 1972, after this aircraft of the calendar resource, for 20 years, with a total raid of 6587 hours 37 minutes, 3000 landings and five major repairs, the aircraft was written off and abandoned on the edge of the Tushinsky airfield in Moscow.

In March 1992, a group of experts of Flav Russia began to restore the aircraft to a flight state. On November 13, 1992, the restored the only flying copy of the Li-2 aircraft made the first flight in his second life.