Kaleva

When

14 Jun 1940

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

59.78° N, 25.02° E

Description

passenger aircraft shot down on 14 June 1940

Deaths

9

Injured

0

Passenger airliner shot down by Soviet bombers in 1940

Kaleva was a civilian Junkers Ju 52 passenger airplane belonging to the Finnish carrier Aero O/Y. On June 14, 1940, as Flight 1631 from Tallinn in Estonia to Helsinki in Finland, it was shot down over the Gulf of Finland by two combat aircraft of Soviet Naval Aviation and downed near the Estonian island of Keri, killing all nine on board.

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