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
- 2 · 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
Farman HF.30
- Aircraft type
- Farman HF-30
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
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 crash of the "Farman-30" aircraft was an aviation disaster that occurred on 8 August 1919 near the village of Nifanka in Chelyabinsk Uyezd. An aircraft of the 28th Reconnaissance Aviation Detachment crashed while returning from a combat reconnaissance mission. Both crew members were killed — military pilot Eduard Ivanovich Sizas and observer pilot Maksim Dmitrievich Saunin.<ref
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Circumstances of the crash
On 8 August 1919 the aircraft was carrying out combat reconnaissance in the area of the Chumlyak railway station. After completing the mission, the crew headed back. On board were military pilot Eduard Sizas and observer pilot Maksim Saunin. According to Order No. 64 of the Red Air Fleet of the Active Army of the RSFSR dated 15 August 1919, the aircraft crashed during descent while returning from combat reconnaissance. The order reported the deaths of military pilot Sizas and observer pilot Maksim Saunin. According to information collected from residents of nearby settlements, the aircraft fell in a forest a few versts from Nifanka. The wreckage of the aircraft was found approximately 6–7 versts from the village. Next to the aircraft was Saunin's body Sizas's body was found later approximately 150 sazhens from the crash site.<ref
name=”museum”/> The exact cause of the crash is not stated in the Red Air Fleet order. The document speaks of a crash during descent while returning from combat reconnaissance.
Version of the circumstances of the crash
Later publications name the aircraft's entry into a downdraft as the cause of the crash. According to this version, during the sharp descent Sizas was thrown out of the aircraft, after which Saunin was unable to recover the machine from the fall, since the observer's cockpit had no controls. This version is a later reconstruction of the circumstances of the crash. In the 1919 order the cause of the crash was not established.
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Sources
Russian Wikipedia article: Крушения самолета Farman-30
- Article
- Крушения самолета Farman-30
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 155188771 · 2026-09-18 · 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 "Крушения самолета Farman-30" (page 11609830, revision 155188771), 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): An aircraft of a reconnaissance aviation detachment of the Red Air Fleet returning from a combat mission: a military flight. The article: "An aircraft of the 28th Reconnaissance Aviation Detachment crashed while returning from a combat reconnaissance mission."
- 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.