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| Russian jet crashes attempting carrier landing, again |
| 2016-12-06 |
| [IsraelTimes] The Russian Defense Ministry says a Su-33 fighter jet, based on the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, has crashed into the Mediterranean Sea after returning from a sortie over Syria. The ministry says in a statement that was reported by Russian news agencies that "because of the failure of the arrester system’s cable, the Su-33 fighter rolled off the deck" on Monday. The pilot of the aircraft successfully ejected and was unharmed in the incident. The ministry added that Russian military operations over Syria will not be affected by the incident. This is the second loss of an aircraft from Russia’s only aircraft carrier since it arrived off Syria last month. The Defense Ministry said that a Mig-29 fighter crashed into the sea on November 15 while attempting to land on the Admiral Kuznetsov. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #9 ran out of gas? perhaps a lawndartski? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2016-12-06 21:52 |
| #8 Wasn't one of the previous mishaps also because of an arrester cable? (checking) It broke during one plane's landing, and while they were trying to clear the fouled deck the other plane ran out of fuel. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-12-06 18:33 |
| #7 Carrier operations are hard. The US still crashes jets once in a while. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-12-06 16:20 |
| #6 It will be interesting to see how often this happens to the Chinese. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2016-12-06 15:45 |
| #5 contrary to the israel times report, the november mig failure was, I think, during take off |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-12-06 11:52 |
| #4 "...rolled off the deck..." Oh, to have been on "vulture's row" watching that! |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-12-06 08:48 |
| #3 Somehow I don't think the Russkis are up to a USN tempo of operations. Of course if Hillary had been elected she would have worked hard to level that playing field as Obama has. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-12-06 08:21 |
| #2 They only have one carrier, so, I guess they don't get a lot of practice. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2016-12-06 07:55 |
| #1 PAOski nightmare. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-12-06 05:32 |