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Date: | Wednesday 6 April 1966 |
Time: | evening |
Type: | Yakovlev Yak-28 |
Owner/operator: | Soviet Air Force |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Stößensee/Berlin -
Germany
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Finow |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Crashed in river Havel. Cap Boris Kapustin and Ten Yuri Yanov, Russian pilots, died in the crash.
IWM's Sound Archive has an oral interview with Angus Howard Southwood who was serving with British Commanders'-in-Chief Mission to Soviet Forces in Germany (BRIXMIS) in Berlin when this incident occurred. See Reel 11 at https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80033057.
Sources:
Correio da Manhã 8 April 1966, p4
Hamburger Abenblatt 7 April 1966, p2/30 April 1966, p2
https://footage-berlin.com/sowjetischer-flugzeugabsturz-ueber-dem-stoessensee-6-april-1966/ Revision history:
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20-Oct-2015 19:28 |
TB |
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17-Dec-2015 16:17 |
TB |
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28-Dec-2015 18:15 |
TB |
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19-Apr-2021 06:27 |
gerard57 |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
22-Mar-2022 07:23 |
Richard |
Updated [Narrative] |