Three Russian nuclear bomber crew members killed 'after ejector seat malfunctions'

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Three Russian nuclear bomber crew members killed ‘after ejector seat malfunctions’
The three crew members suffered injuries ‘incompatible with life’
independent.co.uk
4:56 AM · Mar 23, 2021

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-nuclear-bomber-crash-crew-death-b1821066.html

[FreepFryer]

1. Good god. (Nt)

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Was the bomber loaded?

Where is the aircraft?

[soothsayer]

3. Were they trying to eject?

[Nevilledog]

5. It's a brief story, but seems like they might have still been on the ground.

Looks like someone accidentally pushed the eject button

[soothsayer]

10. Where was Putin

[Irish_Dem]

13. Or perhaps very low altitude so parachute could not deploy.

Maybe it happened on take off?

[Grins]

4. Russian ejection systems are probably the best in the world.

Makes this a real freak of a story.

[Budi]

6. Ouch! Eee gaad.

Bye Russian nuclear bomber crew members

[Doc_Technical]

7. I surmise that this old aircraft

was not retrofitted with zero/zero ejection seats.

[sir pball]

8. It was refitted, but not with 0/0s

As best I can find, the seats are zero-altitude but have a lower speed limit of 185mph.

Still, beats the original downward-firing seats - those would have been quite messy to have fire on the ground...

http://www.airvectors.net/avtu22.html

[MagickMuffin]

9. three crew members suffered injuries 'incompatible with life'

I guess so, sorry about that.

[mitch96]

12. " injuries 'incompatible with life'". PC for....... they died. In the hospital we would say

The Patient had an unfortunate outcome... Can't say "died"..... what's that all about.. Distance yourself from what happened?
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[magicarpet]

11. Like a rocket when those ejection seats triggered.

[question everything]

14. Really bad accident. Here is some more

The Russian Defense Ministry said the incident happened at an airbase in the Kaluga region, about 145 kilometers (90 miles) southwest of Moscow.

It said the crew of a Tu-22M3 long-range bomber was preparing for a training mission when its ejection system malfunctioned and accidentally shot the crew out. The ministry said the altitude wasn’t enough for the parachutes to open and three of the four crew members died of injuries.

Russian media reported that the victims included Col. Vadim Beloslyudtsev, the commander of the bomber unit stationed at the Shaikovka airbase near Kaluga.

Russian news reports said the fourth crew member survived the incident and was hospitalized.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2021/03/23/3-members-of-russian-bomber-air-crew-killed-by-ejection-system-glitch/