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According to TASS source, of the four crew members, according to preliminary data, the commander and navigator survived.
MOSCOW, January 22. / TASS /. A Tu-22M3 bomber crashed while landing at a military airfield in the Murmansk region. This was announced on Tuesday Tass source in power structures.
“The Tu-22M3 bomber crashed while landing at the airfield of the long-range aviation regiment in Olenegorsk (Murmansk region).
According to him, from the crew of the crashed bomber, according to preliminary data, the commander and navigator survived.
"According to preliminary information, the commander and the navigator remained alive," said a source. The crew of this aircraft consists of four people - the commander, assistant commander, navigator and operator, recalled the representative of the security forces.
The Olenya air base is located on the Kola Peninsula, 92 km south of Murmansk, near the town of Olenegorsk. Tu-22M3 aircraft are deployed at the airbase. The length of the runway - 3500 m, concrete coating.
The Tu-22M3 with a crew of four is designed to hit targets on enemy territory in strategic depth. The maximum speed of the bomber reaches 2300 km / h, flight range - 7 thousand km.
Source: tass.ru
The editorial office of TASS-DOSSIER prepared a chronology of accidents with aircraft of this type, which are in service with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Since 2000, a total of one accident and two Tu-22M3 accidents have been reported (excluding the state of emergency on January 22, 2019).
Chronological combat losses are not counted.
On July 8, 2004, the Tu-22M3 long-range supersonic bomber of the 840th heavy bomber air regiment of the Russian Air Force crashed while landing at Soltsy airfield (Novgorod Region.). All four crew members died - Major Oleg Tyapkin, Captain Ilya Laskov, Major Nikolai Tolstov and Captain Alexander Ivanov. The cause of the catastrophe was technical problems with power supply - the plane was de-energized, as a result, the supply of fuel stopped, and the ejection systems did not work.
On June 16, 2016, the Tu-22M3 (airborne number "10 red", registration RF-94146) of the 6950th Long-Range Aviation Command Base of the Russian Air Force, landing at the Veretie airfield (near the town of Ostrov, Pskov Region), rolled out of the strip and received serious damage. The crew was not injured.
September 12, 2017 Tu-22M3 (airborne number "20 red", registration number RF-94233) of the 326th heavy bomber aviation division (Belaya airfield, Irkutsk region) of the Russian Aerospace Forces for technical reasons rolled out of the runway at Shaykovka airfield (Kaluga region). The crew was not injured, the plane was seriously damaged. Source: tass.ru
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