Suicide via aircraft in the Soviet Union

Similarities between two incidents of suicide via aircraft in the Soviet Union.

Name of pilot:
V: Тимофей Яковлевич Шовкунов (tr: Timofey Yakovlevich Shovkunov)
N: Владимир Фёдорович Серков (tr: Vladimir Fedorovich Serkov)

Date of birth:
V: 15/07/1935 - 36yrs
N: 25/07/1953 - 23yrs

Family:
V: Married in 1959. Had a young son born in 1960.
N: Married in 1972. Had a young son born in 1973.

V: Had marital issues. Wife had left with their son the day prior to the incident.
N: Had marital issues. Wife had left with their son and filed for divorce six days prior to the incident.

Date of crash:
V: 27/03/1972 - 8:15am
N: 26/09/1976 - 8:16am

Location of crash:
V: Four-story residential. 27th block, building No. 10 (coordinates: 48.5666667, 39.3480556)
N: Five-story residential. St. Stepnaya, house 43/1. (coordinates: 54.9766667, 82.8713889)

Location of crash:
V: Voroshilovgrad, USSR (now: Lugansk, Ukraine)
N: Novosibirsk, USSR (now: Russia)

Aircraft used:
V: Antonov An-2 (Airline: Aeroflot) (Registration: USSR-42621)
N: Antonov An-2 (Airline: Aeroflot) (Registration: USSR-79868)

Death toll:
V: Perpetrator was the sole fatality
N: Four citizens in a neighboring residence + perpetrator.

Motive:
V: Suicide
N: Suicide / Intended for his family to be inside the residence that was crashed into.

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Good thing he didn't stand a chance of survival. It would be pretty miserable to have to deal with the fallout of that.