Damn. Prayers for the pilots and their loved ones.
Bummer....
The rugged durability of Russian small arms is famous in the west, but most do not know that the lifetime of their aircraft are substantially below most western models —the airframes can withstand a much lower number of hours, annually.
I don’t know that that was a factor here, however.
Looks like controlled flight into terrain.
Can an aviation expert tell me at about what point in the video were they in big trouble? 50 seconds into the video or so?
Wasn’t their another similar crash awhile ago at the Polish Air Show?
Ping!
Sorry wrong link
Su-30MKI crash at Paris Air Show Le Bourget 1999
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Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
— John Gillespie Magee, Jr
RIP.