Monument to the dead pilots Bashny.Net

In the Volgograd region is a monument to the dead pilots. Seeing it took a few photos and then found the information on the Internet about this tragedy.
10 pictures and a little text.

April 19, 1989 at 10h. 12 min. am one of the airfields BVVAUL MiG-21UB piloted Miškinis cadet and instructor pilot Captain Popov VB - To carry out a training flight from take-off to the "assembly line". After takeoff, at an altitude of 150 m in engine aircraft hit the bird, the engine stopped, the aircraft started a fire. Instructor pilot Popov VB powered device bailout. Cadet alive (later, after 2 months filed a report on the dismissal of the Soviet Air Force). Popov VB due to abnormal activation of the catapult was injured incompatible with life and died in a hospital in Voronezh aviation.

PS: The Rise of "assembly line" - this is so, not stopping completely on the runway after landing, take off again. BVVAUL - Borisoglebsk Higher Military Order of Lenin Red Banner Pilot School named VP Chkalov.