"Footage showing 22 Jan loss of #Russia Tu-22M3 "RF-94159" has apparently emerged"

[tblue37]

Horrifying.

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

1. Longer version:

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

2. Omgosh. That's awful.

He hit hard. Looked like it snapped the fuselage. Horrible ending for that pilot.

[tblue37]

3. Apparently there were four crew on board and one survived. At least that is what I read on

that Twitter thread.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. That's grim. What do you see happening in the video...

why the crash?

[tblue37]

6. The comments on the Twitter thread suggested metal fatigue combined with extremely cold weather,

and a too steep angle of approach.

[Codeine]

7. That plane has a history of airframe issues.

Development was rushed and the manufacturing quality was poor. They’re also quite old.

[denbot]

5. It looked like the nose snapped off on touchdown.

Then the main body seemed to drop on the forward section as it slid down the runway. I’m surprised anyone survived.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. The plane landed so hard that the main landing gear collapsed into the fuselage.