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22.04.2010
Military airplane Mig-29 crashed in the Brest region. The pilot managed to put the airplane in area of range and catapulted.According to the press-service of the Minister of Defense, the pilots executed a difficult manoeuvre under conditions of limited visibility in the sky over Bereza. And two airplanes MiG-29 of 927th fighter plane air-base touched with wings. One of the airplanes suffered damages; however the pilot could land it in the base airdrome. Pilots are alive. The incident reasons are investigated by the Commission of the Minister of Defense.
(Viacheslav Remenchik, chief of the press-service of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus)
Airlane Mig-29 is one too many for foreign analogues in many aspects. Thanks to excellent aerodynamics it is capable of speed-up acceleration, has small radius of banking, high speeds of turn and is capable to execute long high-g manoeuvres.
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