1968 On March 27th, he and flight instructor Serekin were on a routine training flight when a two-seat jet plane crashed and died. On the day of the disaster, Gagarin was scheduled to fly the MIG-15 fighter trainer twice for half an hour each time.
10, the plane takes off. 10: 30, Gagarin reported the airspace operation to the flight commander, requesting permission to take the heading 320 to return. After that, the radio communication was suddenly interrupted. 1 minute later, the plane crashed to the ground.
After the accident, the government set up an accident investigation Committee. After careful analysis and research, it is considered that "1March 27, 968, the preparation for aircraft flight was carried out in full accordance with the requirements of the existing technical operating procedures." The investigation Committee found out the situation when the plane collided with the ground. At that time, the plane was flying in the airspace of two layers of clouds and could not see the horizon.
When I return home, I should turn from heading 70 to heading 320, and then something must have happened, which made the plane in a critical state.
The plane flew out of the low-altitude clouds, and the inclination of its flight path reached 70-90 degrees. The plane swooped almost vertically. Gagarin worked closely with another pilot to get the plane out of the dive. But at that time, the flying height was only 250-300 meters, and the time was only 2 seconds. They failed. Gagarin, who was only 34 years old, died like this, so that people didn't believe that he was really dead.
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1961April 12, Soviet astronaut yuri gagarin completed a feat in the history of human space and flew into space for the first time. Gagarin set sail from the Baikonur launch site on the "Oriental 1" spacecraft and flew around the earth for 108 minutes, and finally landed successfully in Saratov.
1968 On March 27th, Gagarin and flight instructor Serekin were killed in a routine training flight. To commemorate Gagarin's feat of going into space for the first time, Russia designated 12 in April every year as the Space Festival, and held a grand commemorative event on this day to remember this hero.
People's Network-Russia celebrates the Space Festival to commemorate Gagarin, the first human astronaut.
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