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Published on: AS

May 18, 1935

Tushino Air Show, just north of Moscow. The gigantic Maxim Gorky airplane, designed by Andrei Tupolev’s team, crashes after a mid-air collision with another plane. At the time, the accident, which killed 35 people on Maxim Gorky, the pilot of the other plane, and nine others on the ground, was considered the worst in the world.