Junkers Ju-13 crash near Tiflis
Zakavia Junkers F 13 · Not established
From Tiflis to Sukhum
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
- 5 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
- Airline
Junkers F 13
- Aircraft type
- Junkers F-13
- 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
- RR-ECA
- Operator
- Zakavia
- Onboard fatalities
- 5
- Route
- From TiflisTo Sukhum
Approximate · Estimated position: Tbilisi, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Junkers Ju-13 crash near Tiflis was an aviation accident of a Junkers Ju-13 passenger aircraft of the airline Zakavia that occurred on 22 March 1925 in the Tiflis area, in which 5 people died.
Crash
Pilot Shpil together with flight mechanic Sagaradze, in a Junkers Ju-13 aircraft with registration R-RECA (serial number — 590, previous German registration D 194), were operating a passenger flight from Tiflis to Sukhum. On board were three official passengers:
Georgy Aleksandrovich Atarbekov — deputy People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection (RKI) in the Transcaucasian SFSR and plenipotentiary of the People's Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR in the Transcaucasian SFSR, as well as Chairman of the Board of Zakavia.
Aleksandr Fyodorovich Myasnikov — deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Transcaucasian SFSR, member of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR and of the Red Banner Caucasian Army
Solomon Grigoryevich Mogilevsky — chairman of the Transcaucasian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka)
Almost at noon the airliner took off from Tiflis aerodrome and set course for Sukhum. However, 15 minutes later a message came to the airport that the aircraft had caught fire. Before the eyes of witnesses to the accident, two people jumped out of the burning machine and fell to their deaths. The «Junkers» crashed into the ground and exploded.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Юнкерс Ю-13 под Тифлисом” (revision 154269098, 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 Юнкерс Ю-13 под Тифлисом
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 154269098 · 2026-08-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q17563030
- 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 Юнкерс Ю-13 под Тифлисом" (page 5161562, revision 154269098), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- 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): The airline Zakavia's aircraft on a passenger flight from Tiflis to Sukhum: an air carrier operation. The article: "a Junkers Ju-13 passenger aircraft of the airline Zakavia"
- 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.