RADOM AIR SHOW - POLSKA

[Sulman]

OMG, RIP...

 

Bad times to be a Sukhoi pilot...

 

I wonder if this could be a safety regulation problem for display birds 'cause CFITs usually keep happening eastern bloc birds and airforces...I never heard of a NATO bird striking the ground during public airshows but I newer saw any of them doing such maneuvers at low level above the crowd.

 

At least the safety rules and flight were conducted properly. RIP guys.

[X-man]

RIP

 

Not a good year for the Su-27 :(

[f-18hornet]

Looks nearly like the same mistake while the “Sknyliv airshow disaster” 2002 in the Ukraine where 85 people died and hundreds where injured.

RIP

 

I think so that as well.

RIP.

[Ross-impress]

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RIP

[Groove]

Looks nearly like the same mistake while the “Sknyliv airshow disaster” 2002 in the Ukraine where 85 people died and hundreds where injured.

 

Uhm, no...

[Peyoteros]

Belorussian plane crashed safe distance from the crowd, when Ukrainian pilot slammed on the crowd. There is some extended footage of this event but I don't think it's a good idea to post it here. :(

 

 

[VMFA117_Poko]

Belorussian plane crashed safe distance from the crowd, when Ukrainian pilot slammed on the crowd. There is some extended footage of this event but I don't think it's a good idea to post it here. :(

 

 

 

Everyone can find it somewhere. Better not to show it here... :(

[nscode]

Yes, here the rules were fallowed so the crowd was saved, but he was talking about the meneuver leading to the crash

[Namenlos Ein]

R.I.P.

[John Cool]

Col. Alexander Morfitsky (Александр Морфицкий), 1st class sniper-pilot, co-leader of the Belarussian Air Force

 

Col. Alexander Zhuravlevich (Александр Журавлевич), 1st class sniper-pilot

 

 

Rest in peace...

 

[tflash]

Sad, RIP

[Bucic]

Sadness, anger... again... R.I.P.

 

This time it's even worse. I know it has no meaning to those who suffered such a great loss but still... this accident looked mysterious. Despite clearly too low altitude it was far from crowd, plenty of time, flat flight path and yet pilots didn't eject.

[Shaman]

Godspeed and Farewell

for the Eternal Duty,

All three gone now,

but their show will last

on and on and on...

As they fly towards infinity

to find peace within all things

thanks to love

to what their did for us

and all the smiles they brought,

dreams and great memories...

shown to many of us

how it is to have the passion

for flying deep withing ones heart.

Now with great respect

towards their three souls -

to The Brave Crew of Two,

and to The Machine Spirit,

three candles I will lit tonight,

and let my thoughts support

their families...

[']['][']

 

PS. I'm devastated

Edited September 1, 2009 by Shaman

[Kusch]

Rest in peace...

[Shaman]

preparing for the last flight

[VMFA117_Poko]

Crash site:

[Griffin]

Damn, not again! Very sad.

[Vekkinho]

It's more like Italy '90:

 

Or Paris Le Bourget '99:

[-fox-]

Certainly looks like there's a pattern of coming in too low.

[joey45]

not enough hight?

[mikoyan]

Very sad... my condolences to their families. Very sad to see my favorite airplane crash again.

 

Here is another video of the accident:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfdk7lFHq1o

 

play attention to the sound at 2:48 and also the smoke of the engines, if I'm not wrong the flanker smokes when the engines are on military power right? and not when they have the afterburner engaged.

[Bucic]

if I'm not wrong the flanker smokes when the engines are on military power right? and not when they have the afterburner engaged.

The engines can smoke at various operating conditions but you are right that they wouldn't smoke with afterburners engaged. Engines are not my major but from what I've seen they smoke most clearly at changes of regime - during fast increase or decrease of thrust/RPM. The sound suggest that pilot backed the throttle fully back. IMO the Su was flying at no more than 300 kph. At this speed and altitude it wouldn't save them anyway - if they would increase or decrease the thrust. At the top of the last vertical man. they were too low already for anything other than a roll with slight descend and level up. Certainly they were not high enough for spiraling down.

 

Other than that and despite the dangerously low altitude what could save them was at least 100 kph of airspeed more. At ~300 kph they flew Su-27 can fly horizontally with the nose high up (at high Angle of Attack) but the 4th quarter of any loop-like man. at this alt... ~Two seconds they had wouldn't give them this much speed even with efterburners engaged.

 

There were rumors that there were engine failure (combined with the rumor of order to eject given from the tower). The videos show no signs of engine failure to me i.e. there was no abnormal smoke trail, sound nor flash.

 

Another rumor has it that they saved the crowd by pointing the AC further away. Well, they were nowhere near the crowd during the last man. which looked to me like a part of their routine display. The time they had for a successful ejection without attempt to do so is still a mistery to me.

 

Edit:

At the time of impact the engines were as quiet as they could be. http://www.onet.tv/nagranie-katastrofy-w-radomiu,5431302,1,klip.html#

Edited August 31, 2009 by Bucic

[Vekkinho]

I believe it's a human factor...too low, too slow, too high AoA!

[Peyoteros]

Military experts believes that the reason might have been a bird, but before the final statement the "black box" must be checked.

 

http://www.vesti.ru/videos?vid=242380

[Boberro]

RIP

 

Last time airshow has really bad fate :(