Civilian test pilot

Date	Air Force	A'cft	Unit / Serial	based	crashed	crew	photo	seat
	Yak-36 'Forger' Losses - Details needed
16th July 1971	Yakolev	Yak-36 Freehand	VM-03 code 55	ARZ (Yak factory)	Crashed on runway	Yuri Alekseyevich Shevyakov
4th April 1975	Yakolev	Yak-36M	cn03-02	ARZ (Yak factory)	Engine failure.	Mikhail S. Deksbakh injured no ejection		SK-E not connected to ejection seat
4th March 1976	Yakolev	Yak-36M	cn09-03	ARZ (Yak factory) Saratov airfield near Moscow	Automatic ejection system fired the seat.	Col. Vladilen P. Homyakov [Khomiakov] ejected through the canopy, landing in the Volga
	In total produced 231 Yak-38 (37 planes lost in incidents - 31 pilots ejected, including 18 automatically and 11 killed)
15th January 1977	USSR	Yak-38 Forger				Civil pilot Isyaev (ejected)
7th June 1977	USSR	Yak-38				Capt. Novichkov (ejected)
April 1978	USSR	Yak-38				Kazantsev V.A. (ejected)
26th October 1978	USSR	Yak-38		carrier 'Minsk' 33 training center	Crashed - details needs	Maj. Beskrovny E.A. (killed)
7th April 1979	USSR	Yak-38U		Carrier 'Minsk'	Crashed following engine problems near the carrier
7th April 1979	USSR	Yak-38U		Carrier 'Minsk'	Crashed following engine problems near the carrier	Instructor Pilot Major Churilov Yu. I. ejected	Pilot Senior Lieutenant Perepechko V. A.. ejected
18th May 1979	USSR	Yak-38		naval air base Severomorsk-3 [Murmansk Northeast]	Crashed during vertical take-off and landing training flight due to control problems	Senior Lieutenant Gusenkov L. K. killed
11th October 1979	USSR	Yak-38		Carrier 'Minsk'	Crashed - control problems. Shut down engines and ejected as instructed	Major Yurov V. I ejected
27th December 1979	USSR	Deksbah landed back on the flight deck after ejecting from underwater youtube Link				Test Pilot Kononenko Oleg Grigoryevitch ejected underwater safely	Test Pilot Michael Sergeevich Deksbah ejected underwater safely and landed back on the deck
27th December 1979	USSR	Yak-38U		Carrier 'Minsk'	During test flight in Pacific ocean in South-China sea. [check ??] The aircraft fell into the water following short take off and plunged into the sea. The pilot ejected at about 1.5 metres below the water
18th March 1980	USSR	Yak-38		Carrier 'Minsk'	Crashed - during bombing practice at 20 degrees dive angle	Senior Lieutenant V. N. Neudachin ejected out of seats envelope killed
8th September 1980 (6:13 a.m. Moscow time)	USSR	Yak-38	#45 cn03-07	Carrier 'Minsk'	Crashed into the sea shortly after take-off from carrier	Test Pilot Kononenko Oleg Grigoryevitch did not eject and was killed
30th September 1980	USSR	Yak-38		Carrier 'Minsk'	Training flight for deck landings. Problems with 'lifting' engine. Diverted to an emergency landing airfield at Komran. Crashed into the sea	Major Ositnyanko VG ejected
27th May 1981	USSR	Yak-38		AB Pryistan'	Gunnery practice. Crashed	Senior Lieutenant Baystruk YA.I. ejected [automatically]		SK-EM
6th June 1981	USSR	Yak-38		279-th OKShAP naval air base Severomorsk-3 [Murmansk Northeast]	Training mission, take-off and landing vertically. Crashed - details needs	Senior Lieutenant Evgrafov MP ejected [automatically]
25th June 1981	USSR	Yak-38		naval air base Severomorsk-3 [Murmansk Northeast]	Control problems during low altitude flight. Crashed	Senior Lieutenant Salodovnykov N.I. killed Did not eject
9th July 1981	USSR	Yak-38		GLITs		Lt.Col. Nikolai Pavlovich Belokopyt (killed)
9th July 1981	USSR	Yak-38		GLITs	Link to Russian Language site
6th September 1981	USSR	Yak-38		AB 'Pryistan'	Aircraft acceptance flight from factory. Dived into the sea	Major Basov AV ejected
19th August 1982	USSR	Yak-38		Carrier 'Kiev'	Training flight. Crashed - details needs	Senior Lieutenant Shevchenko OK
17th September 1982	USSR	Yak-38		carrier 'Minsk'	Crashed - details needs	Capt. Sirenko S.V. (killed)
24th September 1982	USSR	Yak-38		carrier 'Minsk'	Crashed - details needs	Sen.Lt. Gusev A.N. (ejected)
9th October 1983	USSR	Yak-38		carrier 'Novorossiysk' 33 tr.center	Crashed - details needs	Maj. Lavrykov A.B. (ejected)
20th January 1984	USSR	Yak-38U		carrier 'Minsk'
20th January 1984	USSR	Yak-38U		carrier 'Minsk'		Sen.Lt. Volkov A.V. (ejected)	Capt. Desyatnikov A.N. (ejected)
12th April 1985	USSR	Yak-38M	prototype “82-1”		Crashed - details needs	Andrei Sinitsyn ??? is this correct ??? ejected [automatically]		K-36LV ejection seat
4th December 1985	USSR	Yak-38U			Crashed during night flight at low altitude. 10 day search did not recover the aircraft or crew
4th December 1985	USSR	Yak-38U				Hapoknysh N.N. killed body not recovered	Osyitnanko V.G. killed body not recovered
16th April 1986	USSR	Yak-38U		AB 'Saki' 33 training center	Crashed - details needs
16th April 1986	USSR	Yak-38U		AB 'Saki' 33 training center	Crashed - details needs	Maj. Atlasov G.F. (ejected)	Col. Bakulin G.G. (ejected)
28th June 1986	USSR	Yak-38		279 OKSHAP naval air base Severomorsk-3 [Murmansk Northeast]	Crashed - from hover, dropping 30 metres and burning.	Maj. Plushchev O.N. killed
28th July 1986	Was there any mishap on the 28th July 1986 ??
8th June 1987	USSR	Yak-38U		AB 'Pryistan'	Crashed - details needs
8th June 1987	USSR	Yak-38U		AB 'Pryistan'	Crashed - details needs	Maj. Ankudimov Yu.E. (ejected)	Maj. Krasovsky V.N. (ejected)
22nd September 1987	USSR	Yak-38M		AB 'Pryistan'	Crashed - details needs	Maj. Kolobov V.N. (ejected)
4th June 1988	USSR	Yak-38		AB 'Saki' 33 training center	Crashed - details needs	Maj. Vasilushchenko V.A. ejected
12th June 1988	USSR	Yak-38U		carrier 'Baku'	Crashed - details needs
12th June 1988	USSR	Yak-38U		carrier 'Baku'	Crashed - details needs	Maj. Svitashev V.A. (ejected)	Lt. Col. Rudenko N.P. (ejected)
22nd September 1988	USSR	Yak-38U		AB 'Pryistan'	Crashed - details needs
22nd September 1988	USSR	Yak-38U		AB 'Pryistan'	Crashed - details needs	Maj. Belik Yu.V. (killed)	Maj. Kononov A.N. (killed)
20th October 1988	USSR	Yak-38		AB 'Pryistan'	Crashed - details needs	Lt. Col. Nefedov V.P. (ejected)
2nd February 1989		Yak-38		299 KShAP	Crashed	Maj. Syichov S.I. (ejected)
20th July 1989	USSR	Yak-38		AB 'Pryistan'	Crashed	Maj. Nicolayev A.A. ejected
25th July 1991		Yak-38		AB 'Saki'	Crashed - details needs	A. I. Lukaschuk [Vanya ??] killed
9th August 1991		Yak-38			Crashed - details needs	Major Lelyuk VV
9th August 1991	Details need confirming
5th October 1991		PROTOTYPE YAK-141	Freestyle '77'	Carrier 'Admiral Gorshkov'	Crashed during heavy landing on carrier	Vladimir A. Yakimov ejected manually and landed in the sea.		K-36LV (SK-EM) automatic Ejection Seat
5th October 1991	Yak-141 Advanced Short Take Off and Vertical Landing [ASTVOL] crashed while conducting tests from Kiev Class Admiral Gorshkov, which was in the Severomorsk harbour in the Baring Sea. Final approach appeared to be descending too rapidly and crashed onto the deck of the carrier.							K-36LV (SK-EM) automatic Ejection Seat
November 1991		Yak-141			Test aircraft crashed	Is this the above loss ???
28th July 1992		Yak-38 Forger						The auto-eject sequence was triggered when the aircraft attitude exceeded operating limits
					Mosaeroshou-92 One of two aircraft hovering at Zhukovsky suffered an engine surge / flame-out. Crashed and exploded	pilot Viktor Vasilevich Zabolotsk auto-ejected through canopy at 50 metres landed safely
				Link to Russian Language site

Ejection Seats [more details to follow]
Yak-36	Yak-36M	Yak-38	Yak-38M	Yak-41
Krieslo Yakovleva ??	Yakovlev Kya-1 (Krieslo Yakovleva) zero / zero	Yakovlev Kya-1M (Krieslo Yakovleva) zero / zero	Zvezda K-36VM	Zvezda K36V
		Zvezda K-36VL

	K-36LV (SK-EM) [Sistema Katapultirovaniya Ekstremalnaya] automatic Ejection Seat