| Date: | Saturday 18 May 1935 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky |
| Owner/operator: | Tupolev Design Bureau |
| Registration: | CCCP-I20 |
| MSN: | |
| Year of manufacture: | 1934 |
| Engine model: | Mikulin AM-34FRN |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 35 / Occupants: 35 |
| Other fatalities: | 10 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Moscow -
 Russia
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Demo/Airshow/Display |
| Departure airport: | Moskva-Khodynka (Frunze) Central Aerodrome |
| Moskva-Khodynka (Frunze) Central Aerodrome |
The giant ANT-20 plane took off for a demonstration flight over Moscow along with some smaller planes. As a result of a poorly executed loop maneuver around the plane performed by an accompanying Polikarpov I-5 fighter, both planes collided and the Maxim Gorky crashed into a low-rise residential neighborhood. The fighter pilot was killed, along with the two flight crew members and 33 passengers on the ANT-20.
Sources:
Aeroplane Monthly Aug 1990, p. 502
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