Crash of a Tupolev SB 2 near Khalkhin Gol: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jul 31, 1939
Operator:
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
While engaged in a combat mission against the Japanese forces along the border between Mongolia and China, the airplane was shot down by a Japanese fighter and crashed near Khalkhin Gol. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
S/Lt Alexey Petrovich Lomov, pilot,
S/Lt Ivan Ivanovich Mitin, navigator,
Sgt Gayan Sharipovich Diyarov, radio operator.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a Japanese fighter.

Crash of a Tupolev SB 2 near Khalkhin Gol: 2 killed

Date & Time: Jul 24, 1939
Operator:
Registration:
23/16
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
While engaged in a combat mission against the Japanese forces along the border between Mongolia and China, the airplane was shot down by a Japanese fighter and crashed near Khalkhin Gol. Two crew members were killed and a third was injured.
Crew:
Lt Pyotr Kuzmich Ilyashenko, pilot, †
S/Lt Petr Ivanovich Tselaev, navigator, †
Sgt Ivan Fyodorovich Sherstnev, radio operator.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a Japanese fighter.

Crash of a Tupolev SB 2 near Khalkhin Gol: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jul 24, 1939
Operator:
Registration:
16/16
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
While engaged in a combat mission against the Japanese forces along the border between Mongolia and China, the airplane was shot down by a Japanese fighter and crashed near Khalkhin Gol. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Klyuchnikov, pilot,
M/Lt Vasily Ivanovich Strigin, navigator,
Sgt Pavel Parfenovich Prytkov, radio operator.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a Japanese fighter.

Crash of a Tupolev SB 2 near Khalkhin Gol: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jul 24, 1939
Operator:
Registration:
22/239
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
While engaged in a combat mission against the Japanese forces along the border between Mongolia and China, the airplane was shot down by a Japanese fighter and crashed near Khalkhin Gol. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Krasnichkov, pilot,
S/Lt Vladimir Konstantinovich Eliseev, navigator,
Sgt Fedor Vasilievich Chubatov, radio operator.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a Japanese fighter.

Crash of a Tupolev SB 2 near Khalkhin Gol: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jul 24, 1939
Operator:
Registration:
5/57
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
While engaged in a combat mission against the Japanese forces along the border between Mongolia and China, the airplane was shot down by a Japanese fighter and crashed near Khalkhin Gol. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Lt Fedor Petrovich Nesterenko, pilot,
M/Lt Anatoly Mikhailovich Kirsanov, navigator,
Sgt Konstantin Ivanovich Morozov, radio operator.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a Japanese fighter.

Crash of a Tupolev SB 2 near Khalkhin Gol: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jul 24, 1939
Operator:
Registration:
17/61
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
While engaged in a combat mission against the Japanese forces along the border between Mongolia and China, the airplane was shot down by a Japanese fighter and crashed near Khalkhin Gol. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
S/Lt Denisov Alexander Ivanovich, pilot,
Lt Mikhail Ivanovich Talantsev, navigator,
Sgt Timofey Ivanovich Dunaev, radio operator.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a Japanese fighter.

Crash of a Tupolev ANT-40 near Birakan: 2 killed

Date & Time: Jul 20, 1939
Operator:
Registration:
CCCP-L2460
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
MSN:
18/J
YOM:
1938
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
While cruising at an altitude of 5,000 metres, the airplane entered an area of cumulonimbus. Due to severe atmospheric turbulences, the airplane became uncontrollable and started to lose altitude. The captain ordered his crew to bail out and abandoned the airplane that dove into the ground and crashed in the taiga near Birakan. The pilot was found alive but both other crew members were killed as they did not bail out.

Crash of a Tupolev SB 2 near Khalkhin Gol: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jul 5, 1939
Operator:
Registration:
12/553
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
While engaged in a combat mission against the Japanese forces along the border between Mongolia and China, the airplane was shot down by a Japanese fighter and crashed near Khalkhin Gol. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Cpt Anton Ivanovich Voloshin, pilot,
Lt Grigory Ivanovich Zaitsev, navigator,
Sgt Semyon Pavlovich Khozikov, radio operator.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a Japanese fighter.

Crash of a Tupolev SB 2 near Khalkhin Gol: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jul 5, 1939
Operator:
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
While engaged in a combat mission against the Japanese forces along the border between Mongolia and China, the airplane was shot down by a Japanese fighter and crashed near Khalkhin Gol. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Cpt Ivan Nesterovich Parfenov,
Kom Ivan Nikolaevich Baranov,
Sgt Fedor Egorovich Chernyshev.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a Japanese fighter.

Crash of a Tupolev SB 2 near Khalkhin Gol: 2 killed

Date & Time: Jul 3, 1939
Operator:
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
While engaged in a combat mission against the Japanese forces along the border between Mongolia and China, the airplane was shot down by enemy fire and crashed near Khalkhin Gol. Two crew members were killed and a third was injured.
Crew:
Lt Andrey Vasilievich Frolov, pilot,
Lt Mikhail Andreevich Ukraintsev, navigator +1.
Probable cause:
Shot down by enemy fire.