CHAT With Great Power Comes Great Stupidity - How The Soviets Lost 16 Admirals In One Plane Crash

[Dozdoats]

A "sausage plane" ... and rules are not for admirals. Greed and power ...
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When the Soviet Navy Lost 16 Admirals in a Single Accident: The Tu-104 Crash at Pushkin - YouTube

When the Soviet Navy Lost 16 Admirals in a Single Accident: The Tu-104 Crash at Pushkin
Sep 26, 2021
RT 24:25

The plane crash at Pushkin airfield on February 7, 1981 became the very last accident in the Tupolev Tu-104 history, after which they were permanently retired from service. But the main reason the disaster at Pushkin airfield went down in history was because this single crash had almost entirely beheaded the Soviet Pacific Fleet. That day, in just a few seconds, the Soviet Navy lost 16 admirals and generals, including the commander of the Pacific Fleet admiral Emil Spiridonov.
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In short, they had a meeting in Moscow. Everyone went shopping for stuff they could not get at home (thus the 'sausage plane' thing). They overloaded the plane. The brass said take off. The crew followed orders.

Physics did not relent however. Apparently the static load shifted the plane's center of gravity too far aft. A couple of rolls of newsprint may have come loose and shifted aft on takeoff as well. Remember the video of that air cargo 747 at Bagram when its load of MRAPs shifted?

If the ZUSA continues its current course, this is what we have to look forward to as well.

 

[Doomer Doug]

Sure it wasn't a boeing plane?

 

[Ragnarok]

That's not a crash.

It's a purge.

 

[FaithfulSkeptic]

I wonder if they all quit smoking

 

[Tex88]

• On 25 May 1968 a Soviet Air Force Tu-16 Badger-F piloted by Colonel Andrey Pliyev buzzed the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) in the Norwegian Sea.[11] The Tu-16 made four passes, and on the last a wing clipped the sea and it crashed with no survivors. Parts of three bodies were recovered by the US.[12][13][14]
• On 1 February 1971 a modified Tu-16 flying laboratory crashed during testing of a new jet engine, resulting in the death of the entire crew, including test pilot Amet-khan Sultan.[15]
• On 28 August 1978 an early model Tu-16 crashed on Hopen island in Svalbard, Norway. All seven crew were killed in the accident. It was discovered by a four-man Norwegian weather forecasting team. The Soviets refused to admit the loss of an aircraft until the bodies of the crew were given to them. Norway transcribed the contents of the flight recorder over the objections of the Soviet government.[16][17][18]
• On 27 June 1980 a Soviet Air Force Tu-16 Badger on a Tokyo Express flight crashed near Komatsu Air Base in Ishikawa Prefecture in the Sea of Japan. There were no survivors. The remains of three crew members were recovered by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force ship Nemuro.

And a few of the Tu-16 derived civilian jetliner Tu-104 accidents:

Tupolev Tu-104 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Murt]

I wonder if they all quit smoking

if they hit them with foam probably so

 

[Dozdoats]

After a couple of tons of fuel burned off ....

 

[bw]

I wonder if they all quit smoking

Eventually

 

[Vegas321]

Many US bombers also crashed during the Cold war.

 

[Creedmoor]

If the ZUSA continues its current course, this is what we have to look forward to as well.

If it had A full passenger manifest of Democrat Congress critters on a taxpayer funded boondoggle and a woke crew, it would be like looking forward to Christmas.