ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 82887
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| Date: | Wednesday 27 March 1968 |
| Time: | 10:40 |
| Type: |  Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI |
| Owner/operator: | Soviet Air Force |
| Registration: | 739 blu |
| MSN: | 612739 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Novoselovo, SE of Kirzhach, 65 km of Chkalovsky Air Base -
 Russia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Chkalovsky Air Base |
| Chkalovsky AB | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
MiG-15UTI (Midget) 739: Took off at 10:19 hrs for Training flight. 27/03/1968
Seven minutes after the start at 10:26hrs , Plk.Gagarin reached the prescribed height of 4,200 meters in the assigned zone and began training, but already at 10:30hrs he announced the completion of the task in a calm voice and asked for permission to return. Although there were still six of the 20 minutes of training flight left, Gagarin was immediately given the go-ahead. That was the last time anyone from the MiG-15UTI crew spoke. A few hours later, the wreckage of Plk.Gagarin and Plk.Seryogin's plane was discovered 65 kilometers from the airport near the village of Novoselo, both pilots were dead.
Crew:
Plk. Yuri Alekseyevich GAGARIN (pilot) RA : killed
Plk. Vladimir Sergeyevich SERYOGIN (inst.pilot) RA: killed
Yuri Gagarin (1.Soviet Cosmonaut), was the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth (1961).
In 1968 Gagarin began to re-qualify as a fighter pilot. On 27 March 1968, while on a routine training flight from Chkalovsky Air Base, he and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died in a MiG-15UTI crash near the town of Kirzhach.
The MiG maneuvered sharply, leading the jet into a "super-critical flight regime and to its stalling in complex meteorological conditions." It entered a tail spin and struck terrain.
Reason for the sharp maneuver was unclear. There may have been a weather balloon or another aircraft in the vicinity.
Sources:
1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin
2.https://www.rt.com/news/gagarin-death-truth-revealed-674/
3.My sources
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 26-Nov-2010 05:12 | harro | Added |
| 28-Mar-2011 05:25 | TB | Updated [Time, Location, Narrative] |
| 18-Jun-2013 06:38 | harro | Updated [Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Mar-2018 10:36 | harro | Updated [Narrative] |
| 03-Jun-2018 20:35 | j155 | Updated [Registration, Cn, Source] |
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