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The airplane was engaged in an operation to Velikiye Luki when the left engine caught fire. The pilot ordered his crew to bail out and elected to return to base when he lost control of the airplane that crashed in Grylevo. Three crew members parachuted to safety while the pilot was killed. The wreckage was found in a dense wooded area in October 2019.
Crew:
Maj Dmitry Ivanovich Grabov, pilot, †
Sgt/M Kryuchkov, radio operator,
Lt Radchenko, air gunner,
Lt Neponyashchy, air gunner.

During the takeoff roll, the airplane collided with a tractor and crashed. Both crew members were killed.

The pilot departed Burluk on a communication flight to Olkhovka. En route, weather conditions worsened and his decision to return to Burluk was taken too late. In heavy snow falls, he lost control of the airplane that dove into the ground and crashed in Ostrovskaya. The pilot was killed. At the time of the accident, the visibility was less than 15 metres with strong winds and heavy snow falls.

Because the Squadron Leader was not present that day, the pilot and a flight engineer departed Berezhnovka at 0830LT without permission on a flight to Kamychyn. In addition to the crew were four passengers on board: the Kamychyn President' spouse and her three children. After landing in Kamychyn, the crew was invited by the passengers to spend time in their house and they drank one liter of vodka in two hours. At 1400LT, they departed Kamychyn for a return trip to Berezhnovka. On final approach, at a height of about 200-300 metres, the pilot made successive turns and while completing a left tun to an angle of 50-60°, the left wing broke off. The airplane dove into the ground and crashed. Both crew members were killed.

While approaching Saratov, the crew encountered foggy conditions. In poor visibility, the airplane impacted the slope of a mountain and crashed. The airplane was destroyed and both crew members escaped unhurt.

The crew was performing a local training mission at Moscow-Chkalovsky Airport when the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
Lt Nikolay Vasilievich Krasnikov, pilot,
Sgt Anatoly Alekseevich Bashorin, pilot,
M/Lt Leonid Georgievich Berendt, navigator,
S/Maj Pyotr Ivanovich Suyazov, radio operator,
Sgt Alexey Ivanovich Lepyoshkin, air gunner.

The airplane was carrying one pilot and one communication officer (Lt Lebedev) for Stalingrad but failed to arrive at destination. Lost without trace.

The airplane departed Seymchan on a flight to Yakutsk with a crew of three on board. It was part of a group of three Havoc transferred to Yakutsk. En route, weather conditions deteriorated with icing. A first airplane diverted to Oymyakon, a second landed safely in Yakutsk and 41-3319 crashed in a mountains area near Arkagala. The pilot and the radio operator were killed in the airplane and the dead body of the navigator was later found few km from the crash site after he bailed out.

The crew was performing a local training flight at Severomorsk-1 Airport (Vayenga-1). While circling at night in the vicinity of the airfield, the airplane went out of control and crashed. Both crew members were killed.
Crew.
Cpt Garbuz Ivan Yakovlevich, pilot,
Sgt Feodosy Spiridonovich Skomorokhov, radio operator.

Shortly after takeoff from Krasnoyarsk-Yemilianovo Airport, while in initial climb, the airplane stalled and crashed on a huge explosion on a parked II-4 (c/n 7116). Both airplanes were destroyed and all 30 occupants in the PS-84 were killed. On board were 10 civilians and all passengers were Soviet pilots and engineers flying to Ladd Army Air Field near Fairbanks to take delivery of several American bomber airplanes that should be delivered to the Soviet Air Force.