Russian MiG-29 Fighter Jet Crashes in a forest near Moscow Region.
The plane crashed in the forest near Dmitrovskoe village. The causes of the incident are being probed. Both pilots managed to catapult
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It became known that the pilots Alexander Krutov and Mikhail Kondratenko were in the crashed MiG-29 plane that crashed near Moscow. They managed to divert the falling fighter from residential buildings.
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Alexander Krutov – Honored Test Pilot, Hero of Russia. It was he who drove the first aircraft taking off from the cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov. Mikhail Kondratenko is a third-class test pilot.
The identity of the 2 pilots of the accidented MiG-29 was revealed.https://t.co/2hjNn8MWuG pic.twitter.com/qTaz6angFE
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The jet, owned by Russia’s Gromov Flight Research Institute, was on a training flight and the crash possibly occurred due to a control system malfunction, a spokesperson for the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC)
The UAC spokesman also told Sputnik that the pilots had managed to divert the aircraft away from residential areas before the crash.
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Russia’s Channel 5 reported earlier that the MiG-29 had made an emergency landing at the Zhukovsky airport in Moscow Region after a fire erupted in the cabin during a test flight. According to the media outlet, one person was injured in the incident.
The UAC added that a special commission had been set up to look into the cause of the incident.
