- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | May 18, 1935 |
Time: | 0045 |
Location: | Near Moscow, Russia |
Operator: | Gor'ky Eskadril'ya |
Flight #: | ? |
Route: | Demonstration |
AC Type: | Tupolev ANT-20 / I-5 |
Registration: | CCCP-I20 |
cn / ln: | ? |
Aboard: | 50 (passengers:37 crew:13) |
Fatalities: | 50 (passengers:37 crew:13) |
Ground: | 2 |
Summary: | Midair collision with an I-5 fighter at 2,300 ft. The fighter was performing aerobatics trying to loop around the Tupolev. The plane crashed into a residental neighborhood and was on its maiden flight. The plane was nicknamed "Maxim Gorky." Pilot error. Forty-nine killed on the Tupolev, one on the I-5 |
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