Posted on 03/12/2024 5:10:30 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A RUSSIAN military plane crashed in a fireball after flames were seen spurting from one of its engines.
It is the latest disaster from Vladimir Putin's creaking military as the IL-76 went down in Ivanovo, Russia.
The large aircraft is widely used by the Russian military as a transport plane for the war in Ukraine.
It is reported numerous bodies were recovered from the wreckage.
Dramatic footage captured the plane plunging from the sky with flames spitting from one of its engines.
Putin's military is wracked with corruption and its vehicles and aircraft are often poorly maintained.
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Do they use Boeing workers?
I'm not one of the knee-jerk V-22 bashers that lurk on here. I support the V-22, and its accident rate is on par with other helicopters.
And you're right, the Navy especially has put all of their COD eggs in one V-22 basket, due to the ability of the V-22 to carry the F135 engine without needing disassembly.
The issue with the V-22 seems to be with the clutching system that connects the two engines to a common power shaft to power the two rotors, so that one engine failure will still allow the V-22 to fly, if not hover.
As they wear, these hard clutches seem to engage with a hard shock and that is causing damage to the common power shaft, bringing the aircraft down.
The fix for now will be more often inspection of the hard clutches and more frequent replacement than originally scheduled.
The mindless, bloodthirsty zeepers are no better than the rabid liberals that are completely influenced by our lying media. They are our enemies.
Tell Russia to leave Ukraine. It’s not their country.
Were they carrying a Chinese that threw coins in the engine for luck ?
Ukr West Armour Graveyard, 4th Abrams, 2 Caesars Destroyed, Ukr/West Despair FAB Bombs, Rus Advance
If there is anything more terrifying than a fire on an aircraft, I don't know what it would be.
Poor souls...
Should.
Didn't.
“The fix for now will be more often inspection of the hard clutches and more frequent replacement than originally scheduled.”
I agree with you. The Navy would scream at this, but I suspect that simply replacing the entire system with a new or re-manufactured unit every X hours would probably reduce the failure rate to near zero. Future aircraft could be manufactured to facilitate this kind of maintenance. It runs up the operating costs, but what does the loss of an experienced crew, passengers and an entire aircraft cost?
Concur. Every time I hear that the crash was caused by pilot error, my default thought is that they couldn’t figure out what happened. I say this because if you look at the history of almost every military plane, you will see the same pattern: pilot error, pilot error, upgrade, fewer accidents. Additionally, a lot of times when there is a new type of aircraft, e.g. the Harrier or the Osprey, “pilot error” is greatly reduced when they change “pilot training.” Having said that, flying military planes is dangerous, hence “flight pay.”
How do you know that the C-141 wasn’t a copy of the IL-76?
Pilot error because the pilot is dead and can’t defend himself.
The Russians are (mostly) relatively inept, but they have the resources to cause a great deal of damage should they start a war with Europe. They arent going to roll iver the Poles or Finns, but they could, possibly do that to the Balts.
Liberating Latvia Estonia Lithuania from them is going to be a PITB.
The C-141 entered service in 1965 (and is now out of service)
The Il-76 entered service in 1974.
They arent really much alike at all, other than being 4-engine jets.
Children are safe in Spain. And almost all of Europe.
The US has screwed up its education system beyond description.
Wrong. The failure mechanism has been identified and a time controlled replacement schedule for that component has been set at 800 flight hours.
It is, we called it the C-141ski. It is almost a direct copy except the Russians liked to put glass noses on everything and a tail gunner's position.
What do the peoples on the ground have to say?
The Balts? They hate Russia.
Terrain there is mostly heavily forested or urban, tough going.
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