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Crash of a Tupolev TU-95RTs into the Barents Sea: 12 killed

Date & Time: Jan 15, 1971
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
31 black
Flight Phase:
Survivors:
No
MSN:
67MRTs401
YOM:
1967
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
12
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
12
Circumstances:
While completing a maritime patrol flight, the crew informed ground about an engine fire. Shortly later, in a second message, the crew confirmed the fire was extinguished. Seven minutes later, control was lost and the airplane entered a dive before crashing into the Barents Sea, off the Bear Island, south of the Svalbard Archipelago. The aircraft was totally destroyed and all 12 crew members were killed.
Probable cause:
It is believed that the loss of control may have been caused by the loss of a propeller blade in flight that penetrated the fuselage, causing a brutal decompression.

Crash of a Dornier DO.18G into the Barents Sea: 4 killed

Date & Time: Oct 31, 1941
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
8L+CL
Flight Phase:
Survivors:
No
MSN:
872
YOM:
1940
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
The floatplane suffered an engine failure and crashed in the Barents Sea. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Uffz Rudolf Nietsch, pilot,
Lt Hans-Georg Weike, observer,
Ogfr Eckhardt Kleinschmidt, radio operator,
Ofw Alfred Rapphahn, mechanic.
Probable cause:
Failure of the front engine in flight.

Crash of a Chyetverikov Che-2 into the Barents Sea: 5 killed

Date & Time: Oct 2, 1941
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Flight Phase:
Survivors:
No
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
The floatplane was engaged in a maritime patrol flight over the Barents Sea with a crew of five on board. It failed to return from operation and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the Barents Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Lt Alexander Stepanovich Gorokhov, pilot,
2nd Lt Lev Ivanovich Matveev, navigator,
Lt Yakov Ignatievich Lazuka, navigator,
Fedor Yakovlevich Bublik, mechanic,
Sgt Ivan Ivanovich Kupriev, wireless operator and air gunner.

Crash of a Latham 47 in the Barents Sea: 6 killed

Date & Time: Jun 18, 1928 at 1845 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Caudebec-en-Caux - Bergen - Tromsø - Longyearbyen
MSN:
47.02
YOM:
1928
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
2
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
6
Circumstances:
Few days prior to the accident, the Italian Airship named 'Italia' and piloted by the Italian General Umberto Nobile crashed on the ice in Arctica with 15 people on board. The Norwegian Scientist Roald Amundsen obtained help from the French government to attempt a SAR mission. On 16 of June, the seaplane departed Caudebec-en-Caux, north of France, with a crew of four on board, bound to Bergen and Tromsø where Roald Amundsen boarded with his pilot Leif Dietrichson. The aircraft departed Tromsø at 1600LT. About three hours later, the crew sent his last message, confirming that all was OK on board. While cruising off the Norwegian coasts, half a way from Tromsø to Longyearbyen, in the Svalbard archipelago, the aircraft disappeared while the communication was cut. SAR mission was initiated but no trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found. On 13AUG1928, a lateral stabilization float was found and all SAR operations were officially abandoned by the Norwegian Authorities in September 1928. On 13OCT1928, a fuel tank was found on a beach in Norway while a second tank was found few days later. This would be the only part of the aircraft ever found. In 2003, a Norwegian commission announced the aircraft probably crashed off Bear Island, in the Barents Sea.
Crew:
René Guilbaud, pilot,
Emile Valette, radio,
Lieutenant de Vaisseau Albert Cavelier de Cuverville,
Gilbert Brazy, mechanic.
Passengers:
Roald Amundsen,
Leif Dietrichson, pilot.