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Two pilots killed as Tu-95MS bomber crashes after all 4 engines fail
siberian times ^ | 14 july 2015 | The Siberian Times reporte

Posted on 07/14/2015 10:30:45 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

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Luck is for rabbits; something is wrong here.
1 posted on 07/14/2015 10:30:45 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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All those rubber bands are dry-rotting.


2 posted on 07/14/2015 10:31:50 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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I thought you checked the fuel level.


3 posted on 07/14/2015 10:31:52 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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Luck is for rabbits; something is wrong here.

All four engines failing? I'm going to guess bad fuel.

4 posted on 07/14/2015 10:31:55 AM PDT by Drew68
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Word is....they were shot down.


5 posted on 07/14/2015 10:32:53 AM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

No money for maintaining.


6 posted on 07/14/2015 10:33:14 AM PDT by exnavy (Gun control is two hands, one shot, one kill.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’ll bet it’s the guy here on Free Republic who can make things happen just by thinking about them.


7 posted on 07/14/2015 10:34:45 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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The who parachuted out of the plane are fine.

The pilots stayed with the plane, and attempted to land it; that is when the pilots were killed.


8 posted on 07/14/2015 10:35:04 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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Previous post should “The five who parachuted......”


9 posted on 07/14/2015 10:35:45 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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10 posted on 07/14/2015 10:36:36 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ( A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers)
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To: Jagdgewehr

China?


11 posted on 07/14/2015 10:37:12 AM PDT by gaijin
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“crash was probably caused by a malfunction”

That or gravity. It’s a real toss-up here.


12 posted on 07/14/2015 10:39:36 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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Well, you can fly aircraft built in the 50s, but you need to maintain them pretty effectively.


13 posted on 07/14/2015 10:39:46 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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LOL...the only way all engines fail simultaneously is if they ran out of fuel...or all fuel pumps quit due to electrical failure.


14 posted on 07/14/2015 10:46:21 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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Four engines don't just fail all at the same time.

These jokers ran the damn thing out of gas.

15 posted on 07/14/2015 10:46:33 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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Interestingly, the safety record of the Tu-95 bomber has been surprisingly quite good considering the age of these planes and the level of aerospace technology involved. That reliability was why the Tu-95 production line was restarted in the early 1980's to build the Tu-95MS version, which carries the Kh-55 nuclear-armed cruise missile (designed specifically to take out DEW radar stations in northern Canada and military installations in Alaska).

Interestingly, had the Tupolev design been more successful, the Tu-114 commercial airliner derived from the Tu-95 could have continued in service with Aeroflot until at least the middle 1980's had they been able to install quieter propellers for the big turboprop engines--the Tu-114 with more modern propellers would probably have a range around 6,000 nautical miles by the middle 1970's, which would have given Aeroflot a plane that could fly further than any Western airliner except the DC-8-62 and the Boeing 747SP.

16 posted on 07/14/2015 10:47:12 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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The odds of four engines failing at the same time due to individual engine failures is astronomical, for all practical purposes, impossible. Unless there is some common element shared by all four engines which failed causing the engines to fail (fuel, electrical system, computer controller, etc.), it is doubtful simultaneous engine failure is the cause of the crash.


17 posted on 07/14/2015 10:50:59 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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If not ran out of fuel, then was serviced with contaminated fuel, and there was enough uncontaminated fuel in the accumulator tanks to get off the ground.


18 posted on 07/14/2015 10:57:11 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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...install quieter propellers...

With four turboprops and counter rotating propellers, they have been noted as the loudest aircraft on earth. Not good for a passenger aircraft. Of course, it's a useful indicator of complete engine failure.

"Hey Vasily, seems awful quiet around here all of a sudden."

19 posted on 07/14/2015 10:57:52 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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A bud of mine from a former life who used to travel to Russia on business regularly told me that aircraft maintenance and safety was spotty at best.

He was once on a twin engine connecting flight where, try as they might, could only get one of the two engines started. Rather than putting them on another plane, they just took off after a delay of an hour or so.

Fortunately, they landed safely.

20 posted on 07/14/2015 10:57:55 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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