What the records say
- When
- 5 Jan 1950
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 56.74° N, 60.80° E
- Description
- 1950 Soviet Air Force crash near Yekaterinburg, Russia
- Deaths
- 19
1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash
Soviet Air Force crash near Yekaterinburg, Russia
The Sverdlovsk plane crash of 7 January 1950 killed all 19 people on board, including almost the entire ice hockey team 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.
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