The airliner received the tail number USSR-L1309 and was delivered to the Main Directorate of Civil Air Fleet under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, which initially assigned it to the Vnukovo aviation detachment of MUTA.

[1] The aircraft was scheduled to operate passenger flight 10 from Khabarovsk to Moscow, with the first intermediate stop in Magdagachi, and a crew change in Irkutsk.

The sky over the airport was covered with mid-level clouds, with a blizzard, air temperature at −13 °C, visibility at 4.5 kilometers, and, importantly, a gusty northeast wind with speeds of 20 m/s and gusts reaching 24 m/s.

The aircraft taxied to the starting position for five minutes, after which the crew reported completing checks per the mandatory checklist and requested takeoff clearance.

The dispatcher did not clarify the flight conditions or the nature of the malfunction on board, instead instructing the crew to switch to VHF radio communications.

In June 1958, the completely destroyed and burned-out airliner was found on the northwestern slope of Mount Poktoy, 30 kilometers west of Birobidzhan.

Entering a descent in a spiral, the IL-12 with engines running at an 85° angle and a right bank crashed into a hillside with a 45° slope, killing all 27 people on board.

When the aircraft was found 7 months later, the commission discovered that the rudder pipe was twisted and destroyed, mirroring the damage seen on L1330.

The individuals held responsible for the disaster included the deputy commander of the 198th combined aviation detachment for operations, the head of the LERM, and the flight operations manager, who knew about the L1330 rudder failure but did not issue orders to halt flights and inspect the aircraft control systems.

They only instructed airport controllers to allow aircraft to taxi to the start position with rudder clamps installed, without enforcing this directive.