BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

31/08/2009

Su-27 aircrash at Air show in Poland kills 2 Colonels

The Air show in Radom city (Central Poland) ended with a fatal accident.

The Su-27 jet began to lose altitude during a stunt flight, the pilots "did not eject and steered the plane away from the town, avoiding graver consequences at the cost of their lives", The Belarusian Defence Ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Remenchuk said, BELTA reports.

Colonel Alexander Morfitsky, Deputy Commander of an air force unit in western Belarus, and Colonel Alexander Zhuravlevich, Deputy Commander of a fighter base, were reported dead.

According to preliminary data the crash was caused by a bird that got entangled in an engin

Source:

http://news.am/en/news/world/3349.html

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