Kaleva (airplane)
| Kaleva kill | |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Shot down by the Soviet Air Force |
| place | Gulf of Finland |
| date | June 14 , 1940 |
| Fatalities | 9 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Injured | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Junkers Ju 52 / 3m ge |
| operator | Aero O / Y |
| Mark | OH ALL |
| Passengers | 7th |
| crew | 2 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
"Kaleva" was the name of a Finnish passenger plane that wasshot downby planes of the Soviet Air Force on June 14, 1940 over the Gulf of Finland .
Course of events
The Junkers Ju 52 / 3m ge , aircraft registration OH-ALL, belonged to the Finnish airline Aero O / Y (now Finnair ).
In peacetime, shortly before the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union, two Soviet fighter jets shot down the civilian aircraft on a scheduled flight from Tallinn to Helsinki on June 14, 1940 at 2:05 p.m. local time . The launch site is about 40 km northeast of Tallinn and 3 km from the Keri lighthouse north of the Estonian island of Prangli ( 59 ° 47 ′ 1 ″ N , 25 ° 1 ′ 6 ″ E ). The two Finnish crew members (Captain Bo von Willebrand and Tauno Launis) and the seven passengers (two French diplomatic couriers, an American courier, two German businessmen, an Estonian woman and a Swedish passenger) were killed.
Around 2:55 p.m. local time, the Soviet submarine Shch-301 (Щ-301) reached the scene of the accident and confiscated flotsam from the accident machine and material from three Estonian fishing boats that had rushed to the rescue. The background to the Soviet attack has not been definitively clarified. It is likely that the Soviet submarine took a large part of the diplomatic luggage with it.
The dead
- Bo Hermansson von Willebrand (Finnish flight captain)
- Tauno Launis (Finnish co-pilot)
- Henry W. Antheil (American diplomat)
- Frédéric Marty (French diplomatic courier)
- Paul Longuet (French diplomatic courier)
- Rudolf Cöllen
- Friedrich Wilhelm Offermann
- Max Hettinger
- Gunvor Maria Luts
photos
The Kaleva with her crew
The Kaleva (OH-ALL) at Helsinki Airport in the late 1930s. In the background a German passenger plane (D-AHUS).
Memorial to the shot down Kaleva on the Estonian island of Keri
Web links
- Description from a Finnish point of view
- Results of a scientific symposium on Kaleva with numerous photos and videos (Finnish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Accident report Ju 52 OH-ALL , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 23 August 2016.
- ↑ Petrov, Pavel (2008): Punalipuline Balti Laevastik ja Eesti 1939–1941. Tänapäev. ISBN 978-9985-62-631-3 . P. 168 (Estonian translation)
Coordinates: 59 ° 42 ′ 5 " N , 25 ° 1 ′ 33.6" E