| Date: | Thursday 17 March 1938 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Tupolev G-2 |
| Owner/operator: | Polyarnaya Aviatsiya |
| Registration: | CCCP-N210 |
| MSN: | 22752 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Buhkta Teplits -
 Russia
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | |
The Tupolev G-2 cargo plane departed Bukhta Tikhaya on a flight to Buhkta Teplits on Rudolph Island in the Franz-Joseph-Land Archipelago. At the destination airstrip the aircraft had to go around due to a layer of ground fog. Poor crew resource management resulted in the aircraft entering the fog layer. The aircraft descended until a ski of the left main landing gear hit the snow. The undercarriage was ripped off and the aircraft crash-landed. Two crew and one passenger were seriously injured and two crew and two other passengers were slightly injured.
The Tupolev G-2 is a Tupolev TB-3 heavy bomber modified for the 1937 expedition to the North Pole with enclosed cockpit.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
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