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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russian jet crashes trying to land on aircraft carrier used for Syria airstrikes
2016-11-15
[RUDAW.NET] A Russian fighter jet crashed in the Mediterranean Sea Monday as it tried to land on the aircraft carrier that Moscow is using to carry out air raids in Syria.

The pilot of the MIG-29K ejected safely but his jet went down due to a "technical fault," Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported.

The jet was attempting to land after an exercise flight from the Admiral Kuznetsov, an aircraft carrier sent to the Mediterranean to back Russian bombardments in Syria in support of the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
"An aviation accident with carrier-based fighter MIG-29K occurred during exercise flights as a result of a technical fault during the approach landing a few kilometers from the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft-carrying cruiser," Sputnik reported.

The MiG-29K is Russia's new carrier-based fighter jet designed for destroying surface and ground targets.
Posted by:Fred

#19  Learning the hard way Carrier Ops take a long time to develop expertise in
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2016-11-15 19:19  

#18  Re #13: the ghost of Stalin insists only the opposite of your saying works when Germans are involved. Nonetheless, your knowledge of Koba shows...
Posted by: borgboy   2016-11-15 18:18  

#17  I watched this video of a pilot landing - F-18 IIRC - at night, in a storm. If it weren't for the HUD and the pilot turning poo into diamonds, you would think the flick wasn't playing...until the very end, after the plane stopped, when the plane's lights hinted at carrier features.

Wow.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2016-11-15 17:52  

#16  RiV, you forgot the part of doing it in the dark.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-11-15 16:11  

#15  I've often said that landing an airplane on a runway is almost a no-brainer compared to landing on a carrier.
1. The runway is about 2 miles long. A carrier deck is in the thousand foot range.
2. The runway is in the same place all the time. A carrier can move many miles between takeoff and landing.
3. The runway is always in the same direction. The carrier will turn into the wind.
4. The runway doesn't move up and down and left and right like a carrier can.
The only advantage landing on a carrier has is that they always have a strong headwind, no crosswinds.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2016-11-15 15:49  

#14  Naval Aviators talk about tough landings; pity the poor USAF flyboy who was the first to put a U-2 on the America. No simulators or computers in them days.
Or the Marine pilot that landed the Hercules on the Forrestfire....
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2016-11-15 14:35  

#13  When quality has a quantity all its own.

(dang ZF)
Posted by: swksvolFF   2016-11-15 13:38  

#12  Whoa ZF, serious research succinctly stated.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-11-15 12:52  

#11  russia may end up relying more on its air base in Iran
Posted by: lord garth   2016-11-15 12:01  

#10  "Well, off to commit harikari!
Please tell Comrade Stalin I'm sorry.
I promised I'd pimp it
But lost to a limpet
His rustbucket classic Ferrari."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2016-11-15 12:00  

#9  Adm. Kuznetsov Navy CIC was fired for losing a battleship, the Novorossiysk, ex Italian Giulio Cesare, while moored. Blamed on a left over limpet mine.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-11-15 10:28  

#8  Carrier aviation be hard.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2016-11-15 10:18  

#7  It will be truly interesting to see how well the Russians and the Chinese do with combat operation on carriers.

IMHO, I think both will be shows of a giant clusterfuck
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-11-15 09:22  

#6  There's no need to risk repercussions
Or tense diplomatic discussions.
No waggin' your Dragon
Or raggin' or slaggin' --
Send tugboats to shadow the Russians.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2016-11-15 09:18  

#5  Obscuring black smoke from the boilers ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-11-15 08:25  

#4  Pilot took his eye off the Tefteli?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2016-11-15 08:24  

#3  Friend of my eldest son flew Tomcats off carriers (yes I am that old). The stories he told make me wonder how anyone ever does that.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-11-15 07:46  

#2  This is the first time the Kusnetsov has ever been sortied. Russia's navy is mainly a coastal navy, so they have had very little experience with carriers.
Posted by: badanov   2016-11-15 06:33  

#1  I hope this accident and a cascade of others like it will turn Putin's show of force into a show of Russian military incompetence,
to the point that fear would turn to laughter, if only there was not legitimate concern about Russia's nuclear weapons threat.
Posted by: Ulash Sneting2691   2016-11-15 03:48  

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