Air Show Crash

I totally agree with you after watching the video i saw the cause of it this types of SUKHOI tend to choke when the turbines are running slow and then pushed to the limit.

At least 78 people were killed and 115 injured when a Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27UB jet smashed into crowds watching the Lviv airshow's finale on 27 July.
Civilians in it's path were obliterated. 70 of the wounded were critical.
The pilots do not eject until the SU-27UB "flanker" was on the tarmac. They travel about 50-60 yards, hit another aircraft and then they eject. They stayed with it to keep the jet from slamming the bulk of the crowds.
The jet begins to cartwheel after hitting the parked aircraft. The jet mowed right through crowd, cutting through them like grass.
The Sukhoi is an outstanding fighter, and with it's thrust vectoring it's much more maneuverable than US aircraft.
The cause was an engine stall. Two reasons contributed here. With twin jet aircraft an engine stall is worse than both engines failing. With the unbalanced thrush the aircraft will yaw to the weak side immediately. You clearly hear the engine stall, and then you'll notice a black thrust start as the pilot hits the after-burners to compensate for the power loss, but they are too low to recover altitude. They do succeed in leveling out the jet to reduce impact speed, and neither of them eject until after they strike the other jet and as the flanker cartwheels you see them both eject. They were prepared to die avoiding the onlookers. Leveling it out gave them an unxpected second chance to bail out. Look at the directions everything goes including the clearly seen ejection seat.

that was the worst flying error i have ever seen, what kind of idiot ever put him in control of that sukhoi?
the pilot simply got scared of losing altitude and hit the throttle too fast......see that trail of black smoke behind the plane? nothing unusual ....it's the cause of too much fuel being pumped in the burning chamber, as we call it the engine just "choked" and did not gave the plane enough power to rise again, after a few moments the engine comes back to normal so it's not a sure way to the grave if that happens.....the accident could have been easely avoided if the pilot would have slowly pushed the throttle up or if he had just a few more altitude......i saw live something like this happen here in romania...... a MIG-29 , his engines "choked" after a slow speed pass, and the plane started to descend....luckly it got back to normal when the plane had just 3 meters from the ground so no one was hurt but whe the pilot got off the plane he was shakin' like a jelly..=))

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It was terrible. People cut down like grass.

... that airshow pilots should never direct energy at the crowds. If you are going to do a maneuver that has even the slightest posibility of aiming at a crowd, you do it at a different approach vector. If the pilots had been coming from 90º to the left of the first scene, they would have crashed into the grass and woods, or could have just ejected right away and let the plane hit the woods.

It's amazing that the pilots stayed with it all the way to the ground, though, that is incredibly brave, and they did all they could do. It's the same issue with people in Europe watching rally cars while standing on the side of the road, and then one flips and kills 10 of them. But with airshows, the pilots and planners define their own flight paths, and those should never include the possibility of ending up in a crowd.

...looks more lika a Su-35

Sorry, it's Su-27.

I was there actually, we went to look at some plains 50-60 metres away from where it crashed. If we haven't moved, this comment maybe woudn't been here. I think 83 people died. It was horrible to watch.

I saw it on ogrish... what happend there was really terrible!!!

I was on this sad ending show...Me and my family and some friend of ours, was walking around on that airport in the northwest part of Ukraine on this day. I was really amaced by that plane, because it was flying really low. Only two minuttes before it had passed just over my head.. If the accident had happened that time...Well.. yeah....
I'll never go to a show like this again...

Your talking about the team fliers where one is almost cut in half by another team mate. The blue and gold team? Those are <were> Mig 29's. look closely and you'll see that it actually did not hit the other and cut in half. Rather, it shears the starboard wing right off. the air frame buckles. both pilots survived. the paris airshow in 99 had an su-27 crash after slamming the rear end down destroying the vector thrust instanly and it goes straight up. The pilot survives.

My friend was on that air show in Lviv, Ukraine and it was a real nightmare for him

This happend in ukrain which some of you said and the plane killed at least 88 people or more.The plane he was flying was probebly a SU-27 becous it has no small wings in the front.

These explosions happened in ukraine in the city Luvov.. i was also in ukraine that days .. but lucky not in luvov :)

I think that was not an engine problem, most likely it was a plain stall, the pilot did the trick at to low altitude and when the ground was approaching fast he instinctively pulled the stick up to much, exceeding the angle of attack of the wing, killing the lift from the wing. Falling from the sky. ( a factor is the air temperature and humidity, which will reduce the efficiency of the wing. )

Stall can happened at high speed too. Once you exceed the angle of attack of the wing. The lift is gone. Many air show pilots have died the same way.

I've seen this on another site aswell and they said it hit no people. After I first saw this video I researched into it. It hit tons of people. One persons account of it on a website was "Severed arms and legs flew everywhere". In the aftermath video you see arms on the floor, so everybody THIS CRASH KILLED LOADS OF PEOPLE.

seems that you have no idea ! Its obvius that the Jet crashes into the crowd !!

It has been the worst air show crash too date. The SU 27 plowed straight through the crowd line, killing 83 and wounding 116 people.
It happened at Sorensen Airbase, in the Ukraine. Both engines apprently cut out during manoeuvers

SUCHOJ NOT SUKHOI

it is die!!

No wonder the Soviet Union collapsed

Are you fuck*ng stupid or what??? If you don't believe us,t hen go to the FAA or airdisaster web-sites and search for that crash. Lots pf people died and you saying that it's fake.And please don't call UKRAINE russia, because it's an independent country.I don't know how old are you, but it seems like your knowledge of geography and other stuff like DISASTERS is very poor.
Now plice go to this BBC news web-site and see the original article that was written 4 years ago, when it happend:
newswww.bbc.n et.uk/2/hi/eur ope/2156445.stm

also:
www.flurl. com/item/Su2 7_u_106833/


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And tht's SU 27...believe me, I've been in the aviation business for more than 7 years, so I know.

Dude, that is not su-37, that's mig-29. The two pilots were UKRANIAN. They crashed because they never before trained at that airport and because the airplane had full tank's of fuel (after the airshow they were supposed to fly back to Gitomir(Ukraine)

is it me or the SU37 always crash ... is it the russian pilots dont know how to fly or is it the plane so crashable?!!!

h r u ?

i hightly doubt that was the result of bad flying... pilots do realize the costs of the equipment they are using.... this was definently a problem with the thrust.. you can see he is trying as hard as he can to stop dropping in altitude, he never meant for it to go that low.

Insulted my mom.

he saw a good lookin chick and turned her way to late and bang

happened in ukraine, why? i dont know

GJ shooting. First, a plane. Then a tent, some ppl, and an explosion.

they are death traps and their planes are flying coffins. I dont recall that many air show accidents from any other country except for india. Indian migs crash every month.

de pilot tried to get an apple from the tree, but he found a tomato on the ground

Crazy Russians... tricks are for kids!

On a more serious note though... it seems like engines cut out a lot at airshows these days like that clip of the MiG-29 and there was one where Saab's new fighter does the same thing. Sad that so many people died and got injured.