Photo: "Exploratory association" AviaPoisk. " On Saturday, March 92013 from Lake Krolevetsky, near Artem be raised wreckage of the Soviet Il-2M-3 Air Force Pacific Fleet, and the remains of its crew .
aircraft was part of the 37 th Attack Aviation Regiment Air Force Pacific Fleet. This regiment in 1945 was located at the airport, "Krolevets", and took an active part in the war with Japan.
tragedy was on April 261945 at 17:30 while developing landfill strafing ground targets. cause of the disaster became swollen and rupture of the left cannon-23 load cells, leading to detonation shells that blew up a wing and led to uncontrolled fall.
using documents of the Central Naval Archives established the circumstances crash and names of the crew.
Help IA Primore24:
" Crew in part of the pilot, Second Lieutenant Nikolai Aksenov and gunner-radio operator, junior sergeant Shatalov Dmitry Stepanovich perform complex flight on IL-2. When firing on range El Pause on the fourth entry at an altitude of 100-150 meters pilot fired a burst of cannon. During time, there has been shooting 37 AP commander, Major Barbashina and landfill staff noticed a ball of smoke behind the plane followed by the separation of aircraft parts one size 30h70 and 5-6 smaller parts. Sturmovik, not leaving from the corner of a dive, went to the left helix followed by lowering the nose and increase roll spiral, making a full turn of 360 degrees to 90 degrees, hit the western shore of Lake El Pause. crew died, crashed ".
addition, in an act of medical expertise contained in the Central Naval Archives, there is the following entry: " remains of bodies of the crew in the water at a distance of 1.5 m from the shore, at a great depth, between the engine and gas tank. autopsy has been conducted, so as there is nothing to disclose. bodies completely crushed. presented in the form of liquid mass, mixed with dirt, gasoline and water. Extraction difficult ".
Works to lift fragments Il-2M-3 will be carried out by search union "AviaPoisk" using the supplied heavy excavator. During the operation is planned to raise the remains of the aircraft from the ground and remove the remains of the crew members to prepare them for burial. support measures provided the Investment and Construction Group "Stroyinvest" Regional Fund of socio-economic development of the "Sakhalin- XXI Century "and partial resident of Artem Siginur NF
