MiG-31 landed not where planned

The Ministry of Defense accuses the manufacturer of an accident.
20.09.2018
Kommersant
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In the Nizhny Novgorod region during the training flight, the MiG-31 fighter of the Aviation Personnel Training Center fell. Both pilots catapulted and remained alive. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the preliminary cause is considered a technical fault on the side. In the RAC MiG until the claim was left unanswered. Meanwhile, according to Kommersant's information, the fighter was coming from the military airfield of Savasleik and the speech is most likely about the MiG-31BM - this type of vehicle was modernized at the Nizhny Novgorod plant Sokol.

The fact that today the Nizhny Novgorod region was wrecked by the Russian Ministry of Defense board, first reported news agencies referring to the source, and a few minutes later confirmed in the military department. As explained to Kommersant, at about 3:30 pm during a planned training flight at one of the military airfields in the Nizhny Novgorod region, an Mig-31 fighter aircraft training center was crashed.

The incident occurred near the town of Kulebaki. On board were two pilots - an instructor and a cadet, they ejected and went out to communicate, Interfax reported. "The pilots were promptly evacuated by the specialists of the search and rescue service of their lives, nothing is threatened," the Russian Defense Ministry stressed, adding that the flight was carried out without ammunition, and the plane fell in a deserted place and did not lead to destruction on the ground.


The commission of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is working to determine the causes of the accident at the site of the fall. A group of the military investigation department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Nizhny Novgorod garrison also went there. According to preliminary data, a technical malfunction led to the crash of the aircraft.

In the RAC MiG, the claims of the military department and the incident itself were left without comment.

The MiG-31 is a two-seat supersonic long-range interceptor. It was developed in the 1970s. The machine is designed to intercept and destroy air targets at extremely small, small, medium and high altitudes at any time of the day, in different weather conditions, when the enemy uses active and passive radar jammers, as well as false thermal targets. In the first half of the 2000s, the RAC MiG took up the modernization of the MiG-31 Air Force of Russia in the MiG-31BM version. The first modernized MiG took off in September 2005. The first stage of the state tests of the MiG-31BM was successfully carried out in November 2007, after which it was authorized to serial upgrade. Modernization is carried out by PJSC "Nizhny Novgorod Aircraft Building Plant" Sokol "and 514th aircraft repair plant in Rzhev. Rzhev Plant is responsible for a small part of the contract. To date, almost all serviceable MiG-31s ​​have been upgraded. The rest must be finalized by the end of 2018.

At 12 km from the city of Kulebaki there is a military airfield of Savasleika, on which the branch of the 4th State Center for Training Aviation Personnel and Military Tests of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is stationed. According to the interlocutors of Kommersant, who are familiar with the situation, experienced pilots are retraining from one type of aircraft to another at the Savasleik airfield. In addition to the MiG-31 there are Su-27.

According to Kommersant's information, MiG-31 fell in a field near the territory of the village of Molochnaya Ferma, bordering the district center of Kulebaki.

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