Requiem lost bomber

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

December 17th, 1939 at about 9.00-9.05, barely dawn, Bomber Wing Commander 80 bomber regiment senior lieutenant Georgi Vasilyevich Karalkina apparently in haste and urgency flew to the island berry airfield 17 km from Arhanegelska of the Northern Dvina River. Rush was conditioned by an army offensive has begun December 17 - Bomber power was needed to break the Finnish defenses. The Soviet-Finnish Winter or - the war gave the first slip and bombers had to destroy the power of chuhonskih bunkers. The need betrayed a still in the fact that the weather that 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 started 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 the village of Repola, heading west to the war.
At 9.22 on the board time the plane crashed into the woods ...

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Today it is difficult to uniquely name the reason of the crash. Apparently, as usual set of circumstances gave the coincidence of a fatal outcome. Bad weather, pilot error, icing, possibly technical reasons ... an indisputable fact: bomber SB-2 operating at nominal engine struck the tops of the forest on the high bank of the river and taiga was severed trunks on the ground, like a paper. The shreds. In tryapichki. In the flap.



The scatter debris - 30 to 20 meters, not more. A characteristic of impact craters there. All left to lie on the surface, doused with gasoline and oil. Broken machine is not broke 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 made during two days of 25 sorties. But traces of the plane were found Karalkina ... Four people and SAT sunk into the taiga Onega Peninsula.



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Two ShKAS - with navigational SPARK: near and far. Angle bent trunks practically identical. Jabbed sharply, assuming the first "touch" katastrofy.Trety middle - from the bottom of the hatch at the arrow-radio operator. Since it has broken all the "banding" - naked and bent stvolina with cut handle ... ...
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Aircraft clock bomber recorded the disaster to the minute. This artifact was subsequently froze Geiger counter. Remains of phosphorus on the dial, issued crackling ...



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Private gun crew ...



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