In Buryatia, a plane crashed. In Buryatia, a plane crashed Air crash Mig 31 in Buryatia

The MiG-31 fighter crashed near the training ground in Buryatia, the pilots ejected, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation told Interfax.

"On April 26 at 12:05 Moscow time, during a planned training flight in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Telembo training ground (Republic of Buryatia), the MiG-31 fighter of the Eastern Military District crashed," the ministry said.

According to preliminary data, both pilots ejected. A search and rescue helicopter flew into the accident area. The pilots were "promptly evacuated, their life and health are not in danger," TASS was told in the military department.

They also said that as a result of the crash of the plane on the ground, no one was hurt, since the fighter "fell at a training ground in a deserted place." Earlier, a TASS source in emergency services said that the incident occurred about 120 kilometers from Chita.

MiG-31  (according to NATO classification - Foxhound) - a two-seat all-weather supersonic fighter-interceptor with a long range. This is the first Soviet fourth-generation combat aircraft. Initially, it was intended to intercept cruise missiles in the entire range of heights and speeds, as well as low-flying satellites.

The aircraft was developed in the 1970s by the team of the Separate Design Bureau of Plant 155 (now - RSK MiG JSC). The first flight of the MiG-31 took place on September 16, 1975. The aircraft was put into service on May 6, 1981.

It was produced in 1975-1994 at the Sokol aircraft plant in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), more than 500 aircraft were built in total. It is currently in service with the air forces of Russia and Kazakhstan. In the early 1990s, Syria, Libya and China showed interest in buying an aircraft, but no contracts were concluded.

As of 2012, the Russian Air Force was armed with 252 MiG-31s, while 80% of the fleet was in need of repair. In 2013, the number of combat-ready aircraft, according to Alexander Zelin, who held the post of Air Force Commander-in-Chief, was about 190 units.

MiG-31 aircraft take part in exercises. So, today it became known that the MiG-31 link made a long flight from Kamchatka to Transbaikalia, having overcome more than 3.5 thousand kilometers. According to TASS, in Transbaikalia fighters will take part in exercises during which they will work out the interception of cruise missiles of a conditional enemy.

May 9, two supersonic MiG-31 aircraft will be involved in the celebration of Victory Day in Krasnoyarsk. According to TASS, they will fly over the city during a festive procession.

Production of fighter interceptors was discontinued in 1994, but in 2011, the modernization of these aircraft to the MiG-31BM version began at the Sokol plant in Nizhny Novgorod. In 2013, the first pair of modernized interceptors took up combat duty at the Monchegorsk airfield (Murmansk region). The MiG-31BM has a new weapons control system and radar stations that can detect targets at ranges up to 320 kilometers and hit them at distances up to 280 kilometers. The aircraft is capable of tracking up to ten and hitting six air targets simultaneously. By 2020, the Russian Air Force should receive 60 MiG-31BM aircraft.

Chronicle of emergency involving MiG-31

Last December, the Mig-31 fighter of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation refused engine on the way from Perm to Novosibirsk. At the same time, it became known about the emergency landing of another MiG-31 fighter at the airport in Perm. The plane successfully landed after warning about a failure in the aircraft system.

In May 2016, an aircraft of this type was forced to land at the Bolshoye Savino International Airport. Then in the cockpit also triggered the sensor "engine failure".

In March, the MiG-31 fighter made an emergency landing in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. During the flight, the left engine failure sensor tripped.

In January 2016, the MiG-31 fighter crashed near the city of Kansk in the Krasnoyarsk Territory during a training flight. The plane began to fall after engine failure. The pilots managed to catapult and were not injured.

In October 2015, the MiG-31 crashed in the Kamchatka Territory. The pilots were also not injured. Before the crash, the plane disappeared from the radars, returning to the basing airfield in the Kamchatka Territory after a planned training flight.

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Seaplane "Corvette" made a hard landing in the delta of the Selenga River

The emergency happened on the afternoon of September 12 in the Kabansky district of Buryatia. At about 12 noon, the Ministry of Emergency Situations received information that a seaplane “CH22 Corvette” had made a hard landing.

Onboard there were 2 people. The victims were picked up by the tug "Oriole". Rescuers of the Baikal search and rescue squad, a group of the GIMS patrol service and fire brigade left for the accident site, the press service of the State Ministry for Emergencies of Russia in Buryatia said.

In addition, the Mi-8 “Buryat Airlines” helicopter with 3 rescuers was sent to the place of hard landing of the seaplane. With their help, the victims were loaded and evacuated to a medical facility in Ulan-Ude.

As a result of the accident, 2 people were injured. With injuries (bruised ribs, bruised spine, concussion), the victims were taken to the hospital, said rescuers.

Criminal Case Launched

A criminal case has been instituted on the fact of the crash of a seaplane in Buryatia by the East Siberian Investigation Department on transport of the Investigative Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic under Part 1 of Article 263 of the Criminal Code (violation of traffic safety rules and the operation of air transport, resulting in negligence causing serious harm to human health).

According to investigators, on September 12 at about 11.20 a seaplane fell in the Kabansky district in the Selenga river delta.

At the helm sat its owner, a 28-year-old resident of Irkutsk. On board with the pilot was a 30-year-old local resident. As a result of the plane’s hard splashdown, both people were injured, investigators report.

At the initial medical examination, the victims were diagnosed with closed craniocerebral injuries, compression fracture of the spine, fractures of the ribs, numerous cuts and bruises. The pilot and passenger were transported to Ulan-Ude for hospitalization.

As the investigation established, the flight of the seaplane was carried out without notice to the state air traffic control authorities, the press service of the East Siberian SU on transport reports. - Currently, investigative steps are being taken to establish all the circumstances of the incident. An investigation and operational group is working at the scene.

Preliminary causes of the incident - aircraft malfunction and pilot error. The criminal investigation is ongoing.

Recall that in recent years this is not the first accident with air transport in Buryatia.

In the evening of July 7, 55 km from the Zakamensky village of Bayangol, the multi-purpose Robinson R-66 helicopter made a hard landing. It belongs to one of the Irkutsk travel companies. On board the aircraft were a pilot and 2 passengers. There were no casualties in that incident.

The Russian MiG-31 fighter-interceptor of the Eastern Military District crashed in Buryatia, reported. The aircraft performed a planned training flight in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Telembo training ground.

The accident occurred at 12.05 Moscow time. The plane crashed in a deserted place on the landfill. A search and rescue helicopter flew to the scene. The causes of the crash are still unknown. About the dead and injured in the incident is not reported.

Both pilots who were on the plane managed to eject, now their life and health are not in danger, the Ministry of Defense noted.

According to a source in emergency services, "both pilots' parachutes opened, they landed." According to Life, the catapulted pilots gave a distress signal by launching flares, which the participants in the rescue operation noticed. The crashed MiG-31 performed a planned training flight in tandem with another aircraft, the publication said.

At the same time, the press service of the Eastern Military District on the morning of April 26 announced the successful completion of a long flight of MiG-31 aircraft from Kamchatka to Transbaikalia. Fighters, the number of which is not specified, took off from the air base of the Pacific Fleet Naval Aviation (Pacific Fleet) and landed at the Domna airfield of the Russian airborne forces in Transbaikalia, the flight range was 3.5 thousand km.

During the flight, fighter pilots completed the tasks of air defense and worked out the elements of air combat. In Transbaikalia, the MiG-31 will fly over an unfamiliar area, and will also take part in a flight-tactical exercise to intercept cruise missiles with live firing, the Ministry of Defense said.

MiG-31 fighter interceptors are designed to destroy air targets in the border regions of Russia, as well as within the country. Aircraft often take part in exercises. So, in mid-April, two fighter-interceptors at the Kamchatka Pacific Air Force base worked out the interception of conventional cruise missiles in the stratosphere. To detect targets, the aircraft rose to a height of 15 km, their flight speed during the exercises amounted to more than 2.5 thousand km / h. The distance for the destruction of conventional cruise missiles is about 120 km.

Since the start of operation of the MiG-31 in various accidents, at least 35 fighters have been lost.

The latest accident involving the MiG-31 occurred in January 2016. An airplane performing a training flight without ammunition crashed 40 km from the city of Kansk in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. On board were two people, both managed to eject. The Ministry of Defense called the failure of the fighter equipment failure.

The MiG-31 twin supersonic all-weather long-range fighter-interceptor was developed in the USSR in the 1970s. According to the 2012 data provided by TASS, the Russian Air Force was armed with 252 MiG-31 aircraft, with 80% of the fleet in need of repair.

In February 2016, the Deputy Minister of Defense announced that the Sokol aircraft building plant in Nizhny Novgorod is engaged in the repair and modernization of the MiG-31 fighters. The contract of the enterprise with the Ministry of Defense provides for the restoration of 113 cars, during 2016 it was planned to repair 22 of them.

The MiG-31 will be upgraded to the level of the MiG-31MB - such fighters have a modern control system, the target detection range for them reaches 320 km, the defeat is 280 km. They are capable of simultaneously hit six air targets, and accompany - ten.

In Buryatia, during a planned training flight in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Telemba training ground, the MiG-31 interceptor fighter of the Russian Aerospace Forces crashed, the Defense Ministry said. There may be many reasons, but all of them are connected with the conditions under which the plane simply could not fly further, the correspondent said Federal News Agency  instructor pilot, master of sports in jet aerobatics Andrey Krasnoperov.

“On April 26, at 12.05 Moscow time, during a planned training flight in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Telemb range of the Republic of Buryatia, the MiG-31 fighter of the Eastern Military District crashed,” the statement said.

As noted in the military department of the country, shortly before the crash of the aircraft, the pilots managed to eject. Since everything happened at a military training ground in a deserted place, there were no casualties. Ground infrastructure is also intact. At present, a search and rescue helicopter is operating in the accident area.

“Many experts immediately begin to talk about the technical malfunction of the aircraft itself, although birds could have caused the crash - now the migration is just happening. They fly to us from the south, and even I had cases when a heron got into the engine. And nothing, I managed to land the plane on one engine. But if a whole flock of birds fell on the trajectory of the plane, then there will be nothing good from it, two engines immediately get up there. As an option, it’s possible, ”the military expert thinks.

In addition, Andrei Krasnoperov notes that if the pilots were able to eject, it means that the aircraft control worked, and therefore it’s not worth complaining about the rudders. He also added that the MiG-31 is a reliable aircraft, but no one can give 100% guarantees of its serviceability.

“The aircraft is sophisticated, new, modern, everything is reliable there. And if something is broken, then it is something global. I repeat, if one engine fails, then you can safely fly to the runway on the rest. If the power system fails, the plane will still fly, because the power plant does not require a constant current supply, it is just like a blowtorch, it starts up and everything works. As long as there is kerosene, everything is in order. There were cases when, in the event of a fuel supply system failure, the pilots gracefully got out of position — they simply did not change the jet and reached the airfields using the available thrust. And here, if they catapulted, it means that there were conditions when the plane simply could not fly, ”the instructor pilot continues.

In his opinion, doing an emergency landing also did not make sense, because only from above the earth looks flat and even. But when you approach it, surface irregularities become noticeable.

“If the plane crashes, the state will simply lose a piece of iron, and if the pilots die, you will not return them. Therefore, in 100% of such cases, the flight director gives the command for ejection, and then the ship commander decides. Pilots did the right thing that catapulted, the main thing is that there was no displacement of the vertebrae. The fact is that each emergency “departure” of the aircraft is associated with a sharp “firing” of the chair into the air, and this is even a short-term, but serious load on the vertebrae. Previously, pilots were required to make two parachute jumps a year and two bailouts. Then they left the jumps, but the emergency “departure” of the plane was canceled because the spine is shifting, ”concludes Krasnoperov.

MiG-31 - a supersonic all-weather fighter-interceptor of a long range. First of all, it is designed to intercept and destroy air targets at low and high altitudes in free space and against the background of the earth in simple and difficult weather conditions. In this case, it does not matter whether the enemy uses active and passive countermeasures. It is worth noting that between 2007 and 2017, the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation lost nine such vehicles and two pilots.

Currently, a group of military engineers is working at the MiG-31 crash site, which should establish the exact causes of the accident. Recall, the Telembo Test Site was created in 1960, 80 kilometers north of Chita. At present, it is the world's largest training ground for air defense systems, with an area of \u200b\u200b1.3 million hectares.