1931 Tupolev ANT-9 crash

1931 Tupolev ANT-9 crash

Tupolev ANT-9
Accident
Summary	Collision with trees in low visibility
Site	Near Alabino platform, Naro-Fominsky District, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Aircraft
Aircraft type	ANT-9
Occupants	8
Passengers	3
Crew	5
Fatalities	8
Survivors	0

The 1931 Tupolev ANT-9 crash was an aviation accident involving a Tupolev ANT-9 aircraft, which occurred in the Naro-Fominsky District of Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union, on Sunday, July 12, 1931.

Accident

The aircraft was transporting a military commission headed by Deputy Chief of Staff of the RKKA, Vladimir Kirillovich Triandafillov, and was piloted by the experienced Stepan Timofeyevich Rybalchuk. Early in the morning, with fog present, Rybalchuk decided to proceed with the flight despite the poor weather conditions (reportedly due to vanity in some accounts). The flight was conducted at low altitude. In the vicinity of the Alabino platform, the plane struck trees, crashed to the ground, and was destroyed. All eight people on board—three passengers and five crew members—perished.^{[citation needed]}

Fatalities

Passengers

• Vladimir Kirillovich Triandafillov — Deputy Chief of Staff of the RKKA
• Konstantin Bronislavovich Kalinovsky — Head of the Mechanization and Motorization Department of the RKKA, and author of works on the organisation and combat use of armoured forces.^[1]
• Mikhail Ivanovich Arkadyev (b. 1897) — Assistant to the Head of the Management Sector of the RKKA Headquarters

Crew

• Stepan Timofeyevich Rybalchuk (b. 1892) — Captain
• Viktor Sergeyevich Bogdanov (b. 1908) — Pilot of the Special Purpose Squad
• Aleksey Nikolayevich Shendrikov (b. 1905) — Aviation Technician
• Sergey Mitrofanovich Polovinkin (b. 1905) — Aviation Technician
• Nikolay Nikolayevich Belkov — Pilot-Observer^[2]

References

1. Gromov, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1999). On the Ground and in the Sky. Zhukovsky: Printed Courtyard. p. 304. ISBN 5-85868-004-6.
2. ""In Memory of the Deceased Commanders," obituary in the magazine "Behind the Wheel," No. 15, 1931". Retrieved 2018-01-08.