Publié : sam. juil. 10, 2004 12:47 am
Un Tu-22M3 s'est crashé il y a deux jours vers 23 heures...les quatres membres sont morts...
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Four killed in military plane crash in Russia ignored eject order
MOSCOW, July 9 (AFP) - Four crew killed in the crash of a Russian military aircraft in the northwest of the country ignored an order to eject from their plane to safety, a military source told the Interfax news agency Friday.
We knew that the plane was preparing to land "when some 14 kilometres (eight miles) from the runway the lights went out and the plane began to lose control," the source from the committee probing the crash said.
"The flight controllers gave the crew orders to eject, but the pilots did not obey for unknown reasons," Interfax said.
The remains of the four crew members of the Tu-22M3 long-range bomber, which was on a training flight, were found near the Saltsy aerodrome in the Novgorod region. The aircraft hit the ground at a 90 degree angle and exploded on impact.
Whether the cause of the crash was due to pilot error or technical problems is not yet known. "The causes of this catastrophe will not be known until the black boxes have been deciphered," the source said.