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1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash

Soviet Air Force crash near Yekaterinburg, Russia

Field	Value
name	1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash
date	7 January 1950
type	Crashed in adverse weather
occurrence_type	Accident
image	Lisunov Li-2 Soviet AF Monino 1994.jpg
image_upright	1.15
caption	A Li-2 similar to the accident aircraft
site	Koltsovo Airport, Sverdlovsk, USSR
aircraft_type	Lisunov Li-2 (license-built DC-3)
operator
tail_number	42 Red
origin	Vnukovo Airport, Moscow, USSR
destination	Chelyabinsk Airport, Chelyabinsk
occupants	19
passengers	13
crew	6
fatalities	19
survivors	0

The Sverdlovsk plane crash of 7 January 1950 killed all 19 people on board, including almost the entire ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Forces – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur. The team was on board a twin-engined Lisunov Li-2 transport aircraft, a licensed Soviet-built version of the DC-3, heading to a match against Dzerzhinets Chelyabinsk. Due to poor weather at Chelyabinsk, the flight diverted to Sverdlovsk. The crew attempted four approaches but during the fifth approach to Koltsovo Airport the aircraft crashed near the airport in a heavy snowstorm with strong winds. (Some sources report the crash date as 5 January 1950.)

Among those killed in the crash was goalkeeper Harijs Mellups.

Aftermath

The crash was covered up by Vasily Stalin, the son of Joseph Stalin and the team's manager, who immediately recruited a new team without his father's knowledge.

References

"42 red".
"USSR – 1956 – Ice Hockey team: A clean start". International Olympic Committee.
(7 September 2011). "Crash Wipes Out Elite Russian Hockey Team, Killing Several Veterans of the N.H.L.". [[The New York Times]].
(13 February 1992). "Remembering hockey tragedy". [[The Miami Herald]].

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