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'UFO' in air show crash
Sunday Times (Australia) ^
| 06aug02
| Unsigned
Posted on 08/05/2002 5:54:00 PM PDT by aculeus
KIEV: A previously unidentified flying object may have caused the deadly crash of a Ukrainian fighter into an air show crowd a week ago, the Russian NTV television company reported.
Slow-motion videotape of the July 27 accident show a dark object rising in an arc from a wood near the Lviv airfield close the flight path of the Su-27, which went on to crash into the crowd.
It was not clear what exactly the object was, or whether it struck the aircraft. The crash killed 84 and left 199 hospitalised.
Evhen Marchuk of the Ukrainian National Security Council said initial investigations "almost certainly" ruled out technical problems with the aircraft or a possible bird strike.
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posted on
08/05/2002 5:54:00 PM PDT
by
aculeus
To: aculeus
Muslim rocket a la TWA800
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posted on
08/05/2002 5:55:28 PM PDT
by
spyone
To: aculeus
UFO? Pilot error more likely.
To: aculeus
To: aculeus
Sounds like the plane ingested bird into an engine.
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posted on
08/05/2002 5:57:51 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: aculeus
Surface to Air. Makes sense.
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posted on
08/05/2002 5:58:57 PM PDT
by
vannrox
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: Tennessee_Bob
Yup...watch the tape. The pilot pulls a hard maneuver while travelling at a fairly low airspeed and altitude. In a computer controlled fly-by-wire system, this causes havoc with controls, causing over-correction by the computer and negating all control inputs. That pilot bailed about the time he realized that he couldn't pull up. We lost our first testbed F-22 that way on takeoff.
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: aculeus
We should always consider Russia's long-standing tradition of overtly blaming anything or everything except the real cause whenever some piece of military hardware experiences an unplanned destruction.
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posted on
08/06/2002 3:51:13 AM PDT
by
pt17
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