ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 192798
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Date: | Thursday 13 January 1944 |
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Type: | Petlyakov Pe-2 |
Owner/operator: | 11 ORAP Soviet Air Force |
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Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Kazan airfield -
Russia
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
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Destination airport: | |
Narrative:In late November 1943 some crews of 11 ORAP led by Kapitan Mikhail Stepanovich Zevahin, an experienced pilot having flown around 200 combats missions, were sent to Kazan for collect new Pe-2 fpr the units. These crews had to test the aircraft and their engines before ferrying them back to their unit, but adverse weather conditions did not permit to do so the planned program. Only on 13 January 1944 did a frosty sunny day allow to fly again. The first crew to take off was the one of Kapitan Zevahin. The crew had to turn back due to a a malfunction of propellers on the route he went and Zevahin decided to land. When the aircraft was at a low altitude, a few hundred meters from the runway, it suddenly fell sharply and crashed in the deep snow. Due to the high speed the Pe-2 nosed over and the whole crew was killed.
Crew (all killed):
Kapitan Mikhail Stepanovich Zevahin (commander)
Leytenant Gennady Semenovich Skuratov (pilot-observer)
Leytenant Fedor Alexandrovich Bublik (radio)
Sources:
http://allaces.ru/p/people.php?id=13156 http://allaces.ru/p/people.php?id=13157 http://allaces.ru/p/people.php?id=13158 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan http://www.maplandia.com/russia/republic-of-tatarstan/laishevskiy-rayon/kazan/ Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
13-Jan-2017 09:29 |
Laurent Rizzotti |
Added |
02-Jul-2021 07:44 |
JF |
Updated [Operator] |
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