But one public figure still remains in people's memory, and he is yuri gagarin.
/KOOC-0/96/KOOC-0/April/KOOC-0/2, Gagarin's "Oriental/KOOC-0/"manned spacecraft successfully circled the earth, winning the space race for the Soviets.
Gagarin was only 27 when he appeared in global newspapers. The son of this collective farm worker loves his family, is humorous and has a star-like appearance. He immediately won the admiration of a generation of Russians. This world-famous astronaut unfortunately died young, and the cause of his death still puzzles the Russians who love him deeply many years after his death, just as John F. Kennedy died by whom, it still puzzles the Americans today. Now, a group of famous Russian military and space officials, test pilots, accident investigators and medical experts have jointly drafted a petition to re-investigate Gagarin's death.
Rumors are everywhere.
1968 On March 27th, outside Moscow, Gagarin and his flight instructor Vladimir Sherukin were conducting daily flight training. It is said that the weather conditions that day were very bad. The two successfully completed the flight operation of the day and are returning to the airport. Suddenly, the radio communication between the plane and the airport was interrupted. When rescuers arrived at the scene, they found the wreckage of their MiG-15 plane crashed at the bottom of a deep pit in the forest. Both of them are dead and their bodies are severely deformed. They judged that the plane seemed to have an impossible "dive" and the pilot seemed to have completely lost control.
Russians are deeply saddened by the bad news. Thousands of Russians would rather wait in line for days than see the box containing the hero's ashes. Finally, Gagarin was buried under the walls of the Kremlin, with people like Stalin.
Afterwards, the government set up a special Committee to investigate the accident, with about 200 experts participating. But not long after, Soviet leader Brezhnev banned the publication of the investigation results and ordered that the 30-volume investigation report be shelved. The government stipulates that investigators are not allowed to publish concluding conclusions on the grounds that it endangers national security.
Even Gagarin's immediate family did not know the cause of his death. Gagarin's mother Anna had to wonder whether her son was murdered by Brezhnev regime. As time goes by, various "conspiracy theories" emerge one after another. There is a theory that Gagarin became an alcoholic after his successful return from space flight. They got drunk during the flight, so the plane lost control. However, the official accident report showed that no traces of alcohol were found in the blood of the two men.
There are also some sayings similar to madness. Some people say that Gagarin was abducted by aliens. He survived the plane crash and died in a psychiatric clinic in the Soviet Union in 1990. Some people say that Xie Jinlu killed Gagarin out of jealousy and then committed suicide. Some people say that Gagarin planned donnie darko and then had plastic surgery; Others say he was shot down by the CIA.
The official investigation can't figure it out either.
When rumors spread all over the sky, various official theories began to leak.
According to most officials who are still alive, the air traffic control at the local airport was very bad on the day Gagarin died. According to the investigation of 1986, the MIG-15 plane was hit by a strong airflow generated by a supersonic plane flying in the same area, and crashed out of orbit. Another recognized version of the cause of the accident is that the plane swerved suddenly to avoid hitting the weather balloon, leading to the crash. But the investigators failed to find any clues from the fuselage to prove such a theory. They also didn't find any faults in the aircraft control or engine. In a word, the accident is still shrouded in fog.
The most puzzling thing is why these two highly skilled and experienced pilots didn't eject from the plane when the accident happened. According to Russian media reports at that time, Gagarin bravely continued to manipulate the control device of the plane in order to prevent the plane from hitting a nearby school, but there has been no real evidence to prove this statement.
Man-made factors cause tragedy.
According to a recent report in Moscow's Russian Youth Daily, an air crash in 1968 killed Gagarin, the first astronaut in human history, and Xie Lukin, a famous pilot. Now the cause of the accident has finally been found out. It turned out that because the cockpit of MIG-15 fighter was not completely sealed, the plane descended too fast when handling the situation, and the pilot lost consciousness under strong pressure and overload, unable to control the plane, which eventually led to the tragedy of plane crash and death.
For many years, Kuznetsov, a former expert of the Air Force Aviation Equipment Use and Maintenance Institute, has been insisting on investigating the real cause of the accident. 1968 Participated in the work of the Soviet National Investigation Committee. After 37 years, he finally solved the biggest mystery of the accident: what happened to the plane and crew in the last 68 seconds?
The survey results confirmed that the pilots flew in the unsealed cockpit for more than 6 minutes at a height of 4200 meters without using oxygen masks, which meant that they began to lack oxygen. It can be confirmed that in the first 5-7 seconds, the pilot suffered a so-called "aerodynamic blow" and lost his working ability. Then, the plane dived into the ground out of control, and it took another 22 seconds for the plane to explode.
According to the relevant information collected, with the help of modern scientific and technological progress and modern knowledge, Kuznetsov comprehensively analyzed the accident situation and reached a very sensational conclusion: the pilot lost consciousness when the plane crashed and could not control the plane. The culprit is that there is no closed ventilation switch in the cockpit.
Kuznetsov pointed out that someone (a pilot) forgot to close the ventilation window board in the pilot's cockpit during the pre-flight preparation, which led to the decrease of cabin pressure and subsequent loss of consciousness. "Therefore, it can be judged that the tragedy is caused by human factors: a pilot made a mistake in preparing before flying."
Importantly, Kuznetsov did not rule out the possibility of murder. This hint is likely to lead to new speculation again: did the Brezhnev regime really murder Gagarin? Although Gagarin had a good relationship with Soviet leader Khrushchev in his historic space flight era, his relationship with Brezhnev was much colder. It is said that the former Soviet leader was tired of Gagarin's enduring reputation and felt that he was always shrouded in Gagarin's shadow in public.