Two dead as Russian bomber crashes during training flight
Tu-22M3 jet is strategic long-range bomber originally developed in the 1970sMOSCOW: Two Russian bomber crew members died and two pilots were injured when their plane crashed on a training flight on Tuesday, Moscow’s defence ministry said, days after a deadly collision between two jets. “A Tu-22M3 plane made a hard landing after a training flight, due to going into a snow flurry,” falling apart on impact, TASS agency quoted the defence ministry as saying. 71 dead, no survivors in Russian passenger plane crashThe incident occurred in Russia’s northern Murmansk region. Russian plane crashes in Syria killing all 32 on boardThe accident comes less than a week after two Su-34 bombers collided in the Russian Far East during a scheduled training exercise last Friday. Only one of the four crew members involved, all of whom were able to eject, has been rescued alive.
Source: The Express Tribune January 22, 2019 13:07 UTC
