The death of Tu-95 RC in the Atlantic. A catastrophe with many unknowns. 08/04/1976

08/04/1976 There was a disaster in the waters of the Atlantic aircraft Tu-95RTs (66MRTS304), 392 reconnaissance. air regiment Fedotovo airfield, Vologda region.
The ship's commander is Major A.I. Krasnoselskikh, 1st class pilot.
Crew composition:
Major Krasnoselskikh A.I.
captain F.E. Garynychev
captain A. F. Bychkov
captain Skorokhodov L.I.
senior lieutenant Poznyak V.A.
senior lieutenant Vasiliev N.F.
Senior Lieutenant Lebedev E.N.
ensign Trifonov M.N.
Ensign Gribalev V.I.
warrant officer Taranenko A.I.
ensign Fedyashov V.A.
cadet V.M. Kolibabchuk (Military translator. He knew Spanish perfectly)
Major Krasnoselskikh's plane crashed at 20:15 (Havana time) while flying from about. Cuba to the Kola Peninsula (Havana-Deer) in the Atlantic Ocean 180 miles south of Bermuda. After 6 hours and 20 minutes. after takeoff, a stall occurred when the level changed from 8700 to 9000 m. The crew tried to withdraw the plane, but it remained uncontrollable, and the overloads did not allow the crew to leave it. The led crew descended to 300m, but did not find the crash site.
A search operation was created to search for the aircraft and lift the bodies of the crew. The search group of the ships found individual parts of the aircraft, the remains of the crew members and documents.
The most probable cause of the disaster is a spin after falling into the wake trail of aircraft flying in front of them along the international route.
Conclusion on the causes of the accident:
The cause of the accident has not been established.
The most likely cause of the accident was a stall, followed by an uncontrollable fall along the trajectory of a flat spin, due to the unintentional hit of the vortex wake (wake) of aircraft flying in front of this, following international airways at altitudes of 9000-11000 meters.