A Russian pilot and his navigator/weapons operator were killed when their ejection seats activated while their aircraft was under a shelter at one of the Russian air force’s bomber aviation regiments. The incident was originally reported by the FighterBomber Telegram channel. The ejection system on the plane reportedly triggered while the plane was stopped. Russian authorities are now investigating. News of the incident came as a Russian An-22, a large Cold War era four-engine turboprop with counterrotating double props crashed near Moscow, killing all on board. The exact number of people on board was not immediately released.
It’s not clear where the incident occurred or whether the plane was involved in ongoing hostilities against Ukraine, but the crew deployment suggests that’s a possibility. Russia operates two fighter bombers with two crew, the Su-24 and the newer Su-34, which are tactical bombers. Larger bombers all have four crew members.
Two less invaders to drop bombs on hospitals and apartment buildings that house women and children and babies.
Tell me, Gary — back during the Viet Nam war, did you also hate on all of the “war criminals” (according to Hanoi Jane) dropping bombs on the North Vietnamese? Or the Army Air Corps crews who killed German and Japanese women and children during WWII? And I don’t remember any Luftwaffe aircrews being blamed as individuals for bombing London. We who served did what we were legally ordered to do by the governmental powers that were, and you really wouldn’t want the military to be overruling the civilian government’s orders that are within the internationally accepted laws of war.
I’m not trying to absolve true war criminals like the Nazis who carried out the Holocaust or the unacceptable actions of Lt. William L. Calley at My Lai — they went beyond the pale and beyond the law. But don’t blame the military for following lawful orders.
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Saw a few cruel but amusing comments regarding the sighting of Yosemite Sam, the Road Runner and Fog Horn Leg Horn leaving the scene. As a pilot I am sorry for a couple of guys doing their duty but considering the whole issue I expect many are amused and celebrating, especially in bombed out areas of Ukraine.
i hate seeing the death of the crew…. But at the same time,I do like the destruction of the war machines, of which the crew must be a part. Bless them, but sorry about their removal. If it was possible,I would attend the services for them.
Statement from the Kreml: “No such thing ever happened.” Next.