The Russian Su-35S fighter jet crashed under very "curious" circumstances, [...] the bmpd channel writes in Telegram, citing unofficial network sources.
It is noted that "the plane was completely serviceable at the time of leaving the pilot," but the trap shooting switch was incorrectly set to the "Automatic"position in the cockpit. As a result, after the aircraft was detached from the runway, the blocking of the firing of cartridges was removed, which began to be fired in automatic mode due to the powerful radiation of the radio-electronic station (radar) of the airfield.
"There was precipitation and haze at night. The first round shot down and ricocheted off the runway, enhancing the visual effect and creating the illusion of a fire in the RP [flight director]. The RP gave the command to eject. The pilot executed the command by jumping over the far end of the runway. I did not remove the chassis, I did not turn off the afterburners. I landed due to the wind near the center of the runway, without damage, " the channel reveals the details of the incident.
According to the bmpd, the plane gained almost 13 kilometers of altitude and flew until the development of 1 hour and 13 minutes, after which it fell.
The incident with the Su-35S from the 23rd Fighter Aviation Regiment from the Dzemgi airfield (Komsomolsk-on-Amur), which fell on Sakhalin, occurred on July 31.
Ivan Potapov
