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Monday, September 20, 2010

Russian plane crashes, Pilots safe,,..[ 1828 ]

	Su-27 plane crashes in Russian Primorye, pilots catapult ITAR-TASS News Agency20.09.2010, 12.01
	MOSCOW, September 20 (Itar-Tass) - A Su-27 aircraft of the Russian Air Force crashed on Monday in Primorye. Its two pilots catapulted and were not injured, Russian Air Force spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Drik told Itar-Tass. The plane took off from the Vozdvizhenka airfield north of Ussuriisk after planned maintenance work and crashed several minutes after the takeoff. The tragedy took place at 13:30 local time (06:30 Moscow time). Technical malfunctioning is seen as one of the possible reasons behind the crash. A special commission has been set up to look into the tragedy. Specialists from the Defence Ministry have left Moscow for the site. This was the second crash of a Su-27 aircraft this year. On January 14 another military aircraft disappeared from radar screens about 30 kilometres away from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. It was on a routine flight from the airfield Dzemgi in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. An experienced pilot was steering the plane. In July 2008, a Su-27 plane crashed during a flight after maintenance work near the Vozdvizhenka airfield. One pilot died and the second one catapulted and survived, receiving injuries. The Su-27 is a two-engine fighter jet of the fourth generation. The plane is 21.935 meters long and has the wing spread of 14.7 meters. The ceiling is 18,500 meters, and the range of flight is 3,900 kilometres. It is equipped with the ejection seat K-36DM, ensuring the ejection escape at any altitude and speed of the flight. Su-27 planes have been on a batch production in Komsomolsk-on-Amur since 1982.

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