Chronicle missing bomber (32 photos) Bashny.Net

Searchers, thanks to hunters, found the remains of Soviet bombers in the taiga.

December 17, 1939 at about 9.00-9.05, barely dawn, Bomber Wing Commander 80 Bomber Aviation Regiment lieutenant George Vasilyevich Karalkina apparently in a hurry and urgency flew to the island airport berry 17 km from Arhanegelska on the Northern Dvina River. Haste was conditioned army offensive has begun December 17 - Bomber power was needed to break the Finnish defenses. Soviet-Finnish Winter or - the war gave the first slip and bombers had to break up the power chuhonskih pillboxes. The need was apparent in the fact that the weather on the day was disgusting: 100 scoring low clouds, gusty winds of 10-12 meters per second, the air temperature is 0 or minus 2 degrees Celsius, the snow cover reached 10-15 cm, the evening began expected snowfall ... Rotten weather, fraught bludezhkoy, danger piloting at low altitude icing in the damp air.
Bomber with four crew members on board flew to Ukhta (now Kalevala) or Reboly village, heading west to the war.
At 9.22 on-board time the plane crashed into the woods ...



Today it is difficult to uniquely name the reason of the crash. Apparently, as usual: the totality of the circumstances that gave the coincidence of a fatal outcome. Bad weather, pilot error, icing may have technical reasons ... indisputable fact: SB-2 bomber with engines running at nominal hit the top of the forest on the high bank of the river and taiga was torn trunks on the ground, like a paper. In shreds. In tryapichki. In the flap.



Scatter debris - 30 20 m but not more. Characteristic funnel shocks. All left to lie on the surface, doused with gasoline and oil. Broken car not only broke a miracle. Bomber, released on the 22nd factory in Kazan in August 1939, the war has not got. In the search for the missing crew of a bomber squadron forces TB-3 from the same 80 BAP was done in two days 25 sorties. But the next plane Karalkina were found ... Four people have sunk and Security in the taiga Onega Peninsula.