Mig-29 crash at RIAT RAF Fairford 1993

On 24 July 1993 at 15:17 hrs (local time), a pair of Mig-29 of the Russian Flight Research Institute took off in close formation to commence their flight display at the RAF Fairford International Air Tattoo. The cloud was scattered at 3000ft (914m), visibility was excellent & surface-wind was down-runway 8kts (4m/sec). The display was going smoothly until the final maneuvre, which was simultaneous loops commenced from long line astern , prior to break to the land.

The leader, who pulled up first, carried out a normal loop. The aircraft entered the cloud at the top. Number 2 commenced his loop afterwards, executed a tighter loop and experienced difficulties with the cloud. At some stage during the maneuvre, both pilots lost visual contact with each other & called it. As a result of Number 2's tighter loop, the leader was lower and not far enough from Number 2 (as he expected he would be). The Leader decided to carry out his break to downwind , believing that this way it would take him out of the flight-path of Number 2. Shortly after commencing his break, the left wing of the Leader impacted the fuselage of Number 2. Both aicrafts became uncontrollable. Both Pilots ejected successfully and landed uninjured.

One aircraft impacted to the North-East of the airfield, 700m (2,300ft) away from the crowd line, while the other one crashed on the perimeter fence. Remarkably, only one person on the ground received minor injuries. A Belgian C-130, an Italian G-222 and a French Alpha Jet were slightly damaged.

Pilot Sergey Tresvyatskiy was flying Mig-29 529 Black
http://www.testpilot.ru/review/isplii...

Pilot Alexander Beschastnov was flying Mig-29 925 Black.
http://www.testpilot.ru/review/isplii...

Check this scan out
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Excerpt from video "Test pilots. Survive in an accident" (Летчики-испытатели. Выжить в катастрофе), by Wings of Russia Studio.
http://en.wingstv.ru/

Микоян МиГ-29

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[slapukaz]

i understand and speak russian. during the last seconds of the video the pilot was very surprised about a neck collar thats was put on his partner."hey, everything is normal?" "Normal" "What is this thing on your neck?" "Do not worry, they are going to put one on you too" hahahaha! good sense of humor!

[Krishna0666]

You can see both of them 4:08 (brunet) - 1st pilot and 4:20 2nd (blond)

[NemesisVS]

4:25 ice cold

[Stephen Smith]

well that is another way of shooting an airplane

[Colin Stead]

Funny how 'normal' is the same in Russian!

[YourUncleScroatie]

Women drivers...lol

[superjuca55]

'lights a cigarrete' - Like a BOSS!

Respect to the Russians!

[academicusprecarius]

Smoking just minutes after the crash. Russian fighter pilots are really cool.

[Art13bg]

He isn't blond, his hair already got gray.

Not from the crash though.

[jack lewis]

ive went to RIAT 2 times now and the migs havent shown up

[martinezbhx]

there is some brain in you -just try to find it