Tu-22 break up on landing in bad weather - Olenegorsk air base Russia’s Arctic Kola Peninsula

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Came across this in the Barents Oberver:

Terrifying video of Tu-22M3 crash-landing at Olenegorsk air base

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2019/01/terrifying-video-tu-22m3-crash-landing-olenegorsk-air-base

The supersonic bomber broke in two and exploded into a fireball in
what appears to be very hard landing in bad visibility conditions.

Three crewmembers died and a fourth is hospitalized with serious
injuries after the crash mid-day on Tuesday January 22nd.

Now, a video recorded alongside the runway at the air base has leaked
out and published on and Twitter and YouTube. Numerous Russian media
republish the video over the weekend.

....(etc)...

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....And only now of course realise this was a year ago, Jan 2019
D'uh...)

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Thanks Miloch.
You get a sense for the momentum of that thing, even at that speed.


an 2020 22:13:40 -0800, Miloch > wrote:

>In article >,
>says...
>>
>>...And only now of course realise this was a year ago, Jan 2019
>>D'uh...)
>>
>
>Wouldn't be the first time for a Tu-22....here's a vid of one on 14-SEP-2017...
>
>https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=199701
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>Narrative:
>The military plane had a technical failure and rolled of(f) the runway during
>take off. The four crew members were not injured.
>
>The Tu-22 Military Airplane pulled one wheel off the runway, "said the army, but
>the machine suffered no damage. Later it turned out that the crash was far more
>serious.
>
>The machine pulled the chassis off the runway and ended up without gear. The
>left half of the wing with a variable geometry broke off. The machine is
>irreparably damaged.
>
>Speed sensor malfunction could be the reason of the aborted takeoff.
>
>
>
>*