{"id":38417,"date":"2019-01-27T04:55:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T03:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=38417"},"modified":"2019-01-29T06:05:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T05:05:16","slug":"the-shocking-video-of-the-crash-of-a-russian-bomber-tu-22m3-in-olenegorsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/01\/27\/the-shocking-video-of-the-crash-of-a-russian-bomber-tu-22m3-in-olenegorsk\/","title":{"rendered":"The shocking video of the crash of a Russian bomber Tu-22M3 in Olenegorsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, January 22, a Tupolev Tu-22M3 \"Backfire\" bomber of the Russian Air Force crashed when it landed at the Olenya Air Base in Olenegorsk, in Murmansk Oblast.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/01\/07\/this-is-an-alert-scramble-two-usaf-f-15-intercept-two-russian-su-30-on-the-baltic-sea\/\">This is an alert Scramble: two USAF F-15 intercept two Russian Su-30 on the Baltic Sea<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/09\/18\/vostok-2018-europe-should-wake-up-after-the-biggest-russian-military-maneuvers-in-37-years\/\">Vostok 2018: Europe should wake up after the biggest Russian military maneuvers in 37 Years<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>Although some sources claim that the bomber was unarmed, others say that the plane was carrying an X-22N missile under its left wing. Three of its four occupants died in the accident.<\/strong> Two died in the act and the third after being transferred to a hospital. The accident occurred shortly after 1:30 p.m., with very bad weather conditions. <strong>Yesterday a video was published that shows how the accident was: the plane hit the track splitting in half, and becoming a big ball of fire.<\/strong> The images are shocking (I inserted the video beginning in the middle, because in the first half you can not see anything):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dHMSSU_XyxU?start=66\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The accident aircraft belonged to the 40th Mixed Aviation Wing (military unit 36097), equipped with two Tu-22 and based in Olenya.<\/strong> It was delivered to the Soviet Air Force on March 30, 1983. <strong>The deceased<\/strong> are Commander Alexei Germanovich Guriev and Commander Konstantin Y. Mazunin, both pilots, and the Captain Viktor Vladimirovich Greif, navigator. <strong>The only survivor<\/strong> is Lieutenant Colonel Maxim Anatolievich Rylkov, navigator, who is in an intensive care unit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Tu-22 is a large jet bomber with wings of variable geometry, similar to the American B-1B Lancer.<\/strong> It entered service in the 1970s, although the variant that has suffered this accident, the Tu-22M3, was introduced in 1983.<strong> It is the third bomber of this type that Russia has lost in recent years.<\/strong> In August 2008, one was shot down by a surface-to-air missile during the brief Russo-Georgian War while flying over South Ossetia, killing three of its four occupants. In September 2017, a Tu-22M3 crashed during its takeoff at the Shaykovka Air Base, without its occupants suffering damage. <strong>My condolences to the families and companions of the deceased crew members.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, January 22, a Tupolev Tu-22M3 \u00abBackfire\u00bb bomber of the Russian Air Force crashed when it landed at the Olenya Air Base in Olenegorsk, in Murmansk Oblast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11546,10429],"tags":[12335,12336,10731,11372],"class_list":["post-38417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-aviation","category-second","tag-olenegorsk","tag-olenya-air-bas","tag-russia","tag-russian-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}