Tu-95 crash off Newfoundland
Soviet Navy Tupolev Tu-95 · Not determined, presumably the effect of external disturbing forces
From José Martí airfield, near Havana to Olenya air base, Murmansk Oblast
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 12 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Tupolev Tu-95
- Aircraft type
- Tupolev TU-95
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- 66MPЦ304
- Operator
- Soviet Navy
- Onboard fatalities
- 12
- Route
- From José Martí airfield, near HavanaTo Olenya air base, Murmansk Oblast
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The Tu-95 crash off Newfoundland was an aviation incident that happened on 4 August 1976 to a Tu-95RTs aircraft. On that day two Tu-95RTs bombers of the 392nd Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment of the Northern Fleet took off from an airfield near Havana, heading for Olenya airfield in Murmansk Oblast; however, several hours into the flight, contact with the lead Tu-95RTs aircraft (side number 66MRTs304) was lost. After a long and persistent search, the wreckage of the aircraft was found on 18 September south-east of the Canadian island of Newfoundland at a depth of 43 m. All 12 crew members of the aircraft were killed. The investigation into the circumstances of the crash concluded that during a change of flight level the aircraft stalled, followed by an uncontrolled fall along a flat-spin trajectory, but the nature of the stall could not be determined.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Ту-95 у Ньюфаундленда” (revision 155056121, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Russian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа Ту-95 у Ньюфаундленда
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 155056121 · 2026-09-14 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ru Wikipedia article "Катастрофа Ту-95 у Ньюфаундленда" (page 10711604, revision 155056121), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.