Air-tragedy in Zhukovsky Bashny.Net

Two Su-27 "Russian Knights" collided during a training flight on the eve of the MAKS-2009. As already noted, in the accident killed the commander of "Russian Knights" Igor Tkachenko. According to RIA Novosti, suffered two more pilots, one of them fractured spine.

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Agency refers to the site of public support for the aerobatic team "Swifts", which reported that the affected pilots - Igor Kurylenko and Vitaly Melnik. RIA Novosti notes that to obtain official confirmation of this information, and details on the status of the victims have not yet succeeded.



According to preliminary data, the cause of the collision of aircraft could be an error in piloting when developing one of aerobatic maneuvers, however, experts do not exclude the possibility of a technical fault nodes of one of the airplanes.



Flight recorders from both aircraft crashed has found. On-site and there is a search and seizure of the basic units of the crashed plane, which will be sent for examination.



Fragments of one of the planes fell garden association "Belozeriha" Fishermen in the village, damaging three houses and a garage. In an accident suffered five locals. One woman was hospitalized in serious condition. The second Su-27 crashed near the village of Tyazhin.



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