space. seven years prior to nine hundred sixty one rescue helicopters flew over the plane around the city of. one thousand kilometers from moscow they were looking for the spot where you got in and successfully landed after his first space mission. trip took an average soviet pilot to international fame. the flight to took place seven years later cut short the life of the world's first cosmic what happened in those few seconds after contact with got in was lost what caused this disaster over forty years later no theory is conclusive and important questions still remain. on the morning of april twelfth one thousand nine hundred sixty one. half past five in the morning. space food from the tubes even joked about it saying it was only

fit for a man in orbit meanwhile device was sitting on the launch pad ready to catapult him into outer space. of that night as it gradually blended with. normally i would have woken up in the morning and headed for the launch. but that night i didn't sleep needless to say. at any rate many myself included will find more agitated than. after final medical checkups and was helped into a space suit a bus transporting him in his back up to the rocky. chairman of the state commission. and me walking from the bus towards the spacecraft's chief design a cigarette. and other members of the commission stated around a table. hugs and wishes him

a good journey i take by the hand and take him to a ladder leading to the lived but that's now about fifteen steps separate him from the lived. on march twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred sixty eight the last morning of good got any life mishaps plagued him from the very start after boarding the bus taking him to the airfield he remembered he'd left his pass at home he decided to return to pick up the document although we knew full well everyone in the air force regiment recognised him like many pilots he was superstitious and the first cause may not certainly considered this a bad omen. there were also other troubles in store for him got in would have to fly tandem with flight instructor city ogun even though he was authorized to pilot aircraft on his own. we were flying between clouds he did a very good pilot in the aircraft and showed a good command of the radio equipment. also stayed well within the flight zone very

together we did a very good job and. he was given x. little marks and allowed to pilot airplanes on a system. that a good gotten was to fly three times he was slated for to solo flights after the outing with instructor city. he got into it seats in the cockpit of a mc training jet several minutes passed before they were allowed to take off. they reached will be called the point of turnaround in accordance with the flight pilots must reach that line before going into the flight so after that they go through an air corridor and enter the zone and only then do they begin to ascend. april twelfth one thousand nine hundred sixty one just a few minutes past nine in the morning you get in is already in the cabin of the. final preparations and checks are being made all that remains is to. shut the hatch

. it is a nerve racking operation. it's an unpleasant moment because of the consequences. if the hatch is locked as it should be the cabin is hermetically sealed and the flight is normal. the cosmonauts life might be in danger but he had a man. with a hash lock down and engineers ready to leave the launch site the chief designer called from mission control he said sensors had indicated the cabin was not reliably sealed the hatch had to be checked immediately. how we felt isn't hard to imagine. but the technicians knew the job. they unscrewed the nuts and removed the had. inspected the connection with signals whether or not the hatches properly sealed.

when everything there was a. wolf but on march twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred sixty eight you got in straining jet takes off from the runway if you color scheme military airfield and heads eastward towards the flight zone the training exercises to last fifteen to twenty minutes the plane includes barrel rolls hook turns and vertical loops but only four minutes later. here's got an report heading for base. the third turn i heard a voice. was so quiet. right after i reported to the commanding officer the voice of number six two five. commander was not alarmed by the early message found nothing strange about hearing good god and not the instructor said you're going over the airwaves. would be his

last words that reach the flight command. improved twelfth nine hundred sixty one nine o seven am the first manifesto procket takes off from the launch pad. radios back a phrase that we did a few hours would be known around the world as his signature line. the first flight lasted one hundred eighty minutes this spacecraft begin to descend after orbiting the earth that was one of the most complicated phases of the mission because i'm not was to inject from the descent module several kilometers above ground. and that's one of the special features was the seat. of the mechanism was powerful enough to eject wearing a space suit. nothing new with you at a certain altitude the entry which was jettisoned. made it impossible for the

cosmonauts to eject from the spacecraft. even though this time there was no forest here there were only seedlings in this field they have since grown into toll trees on the morning of april twelfth one thousand nine hundred sixty one conover was a six year old girl playing potatoes with her grandmother they noticed two spots in the sky they grew larger and larger until she saw an odd looking creature wearing bright orange overalls. question. i remember. there was no want to anyway any other place but then he said i'm from a spaceship. there were the first humans to see god and after his return from outer space half an hour later a search party found the landing site in the region only

a handful of people got in when he woke up on the morning of april when he went to bed the same day he had acquired global fame. in the flying club. picture shows us nearing eighteen airplanes only a short distance separates the place where the first cosmonauts flight begin and the place where he finally touched down both are in the set up to free agent. in september ninety four when both of us were going through a course of training at the club. but. graduated from school training young people for jobs in industry. are just as great fans of aviation as myself. together at the club. kid and sharing classroom desks and sitting examinations together. it just so happens that we had the same instructor.

on march twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred eighty eight the flight controller of the airfield was desperately trying to contact a fighter jet trainer number six to five got in the pilot and reported ten minutes before in theory the aircraft should have appeared over the runway two minutes after the radio exchange time passed got an insidious didn't respond to calls to contact ground control it became clear half an hour later. had been involved in an accident. the air force regiments second in command were told me to report to the general. he told me about something that happened to. rescue teams were dispatched to locate the crash site around three pm one of the crews noticed a deep charring hole in the ground amidst the birch trees it was later established that it was five meters deep the disaster meant the two men had no chance for survival the question immediately coming to mind was why such skilled pilots had

been unable to eject from their cockpit. everybody wants to know why they didn't to chip in to bring in my they don't understand a pilot psychology something goes wrong with the syrup the pilot tries to get things right rather than each. step is a former test pilot he was a member of the commission looking into what caused deaths according to one of the initial dairies bad weather could have been responsible for the crash. in trouble they were flying between clothes when an aircraft is in thick clouds difficult to put. matters become even worse considering that the pilots might meet a mistake in such conditions. no other air crash investigation in soviet history and receives such attention even the tiniest plane fragments were collected from this site but investigators could glean only

a small amount of information from the wreckage besides in the one nine hundred sixty s. an aircraft were not equipped with flight recorders the lack of data gave rise to a multitude of dairies explaining what had caused the tragedy. to. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've. covered this is a cable from the u.s. embassy in. of extrajudicial executions the military reported to the press that on that day to tell nine guerrillas and from that investigation by instructs young couldn't you know and then strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues.

explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action and this and this idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration this is a cia document central intelligence agency they knew about these activities they knew they were happening they knew about links to paramilitary groups and yet usaid continued to. this is moscow radio stations of the soviet union are on here. on april twelfth one thousand nine hundred eighty one people across the soviet union were glued to their radios they heard a stunning message for the first time ever man had broken out of earth's gravitational pull and gone to outer space. the first man to do so was the soviet

union's very own judy got in. practice communion some of my friends were in college getting ready for an exam in higher mathematics thinking i would be a great god to god all of a sudden a fellow student burst into the classroom. and says someone by the name of god karen had been launched into space on a pole. yes we asked him what the patronymic of this pilot would. save if he said yes now we knew that he was yuri gagarin back down with a cold. there was a red carpet rolled out on the airfield of a moscow airport on april fourteenth nine hundred sixty one in ceremonial steps major got in march toward soviet leader nikita khrushchev without noticing that issue aces had come undone still he made his official report. or it.

comrade first secretary of the communist policy of the soviet union it is my pleasure trip though to you. the world's first space flight to both of those stuck spaceship anded on the twelfth of april nine hundred sixty one. ship systems and equipment has been working like clockwork without fail on an excellent healthy and ready to fulfill any new assignments. and government. major garrett. in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight. deaths spread around the country almost as fast as news of his spaceflight seven years prior that was despite the fact the d.n.a. been long delayed and was couched in very terse phrasing. the commission to investigate the cause of the tragedy was already in full swing. we were provided with reports in panels of scientists who had established their flights the

exact trajectory that we used to reports to pass judgment on whether the two men had done the right thing. at the. lack of information was the main problem facing the commission apart from good reports from the flight so there were only readings from on board instruments the investigators were not sure that they were reliable. in the event of a serious accident. on board instruments we've been imprinted on the remaining corner of the even explain as a rule it's possible to look a day. position of the pointer at the time of the crash. and smile was a vivid soviet symbol without precedent a symbol that had great appeal across the world newspapers around the globe featured front page pictures of got in for several days after his first flight the world's first kuzma not was no longer an ordinary man become

a national icon. after his first spaceflight got him began to travel widely and around the soviet union and abroad each time his visit attracted thousands of people this is how he was welcomed in japan. this is how it was visit to britain got underway. the russian photographer by the scope remembers very well how his first famous photograph came to pass been assigned to cover the soviet visit of italian film star gina lollobrigida got in was among the guests. as soon as i merged from onto the table i shared it with horror at the thought that i would be unable to take any pictures at all for the i saw that the crew was occupied by a venerable recorders where there was no place for a voice like me anyway so when i poked op right beside him he showed no reaction in

the slightest and just just went on speaking when he finished speaking and i finished taking pictures he turned to me and said it's with so what have you been able to take any pictures there is nothing special about this photograph except that if the gaar instance side by side with the liberty to. still make reprints of it. oleksandr calls that have seized the crash site from an altitude of four hundred meters for the first telling . standing at the site where the world's first cars may not. died is hardly visible . it's been established of the weather was bad during the flight there were two layers of clouds. alexina's father is a well known designer of aircraft engines he says is the aircraft's motor that caused the disaster. this situation unfolded as

follows. through when the pilots found themselves in the lower level of clouds and through an altitude of one thousand five hundred meters the engine failed a little bit even they tried to keep it going by forcing it to work at maximum capacity but both don't brought it to an abrupt halt in flight. this theory that the engine was responsible for the crashes based on readings obtained from onboard instruments the velocity gauge recorded a high speed on impact with the ground this means that the pilots made no attempt to pull the aircraft out of the spin otherwise they would have cut down on the thrust according to to my feet cause if we've got an inside your going became aware of the slowdown they tried to restart the engine. almost. you could under normal conditions but in this engine can be restarted and thought it. through aggressively . the situation during the good god ngs last flight was such that the pilot was

short on. time so they couldn't react because they had no time for that. in the mid one nine hundred sixty s. good got in the indicated his desire to get back in the cockpit but piloting turbojets was too much of a risk because such airplanes had not been properly tested these were new models the country's leadership didn't like the idea of putting the life of the first cars are not in jeopardy for a long time gotten was denied a chance to pilot planes instead he was offered executive jobs he was appointed to the post of deputy head of cars not training center. still he attended classes at an air force academy and wrote a book. to be sure. i first met him at a publishing alice frankly i had not expected a lieutenant recently promoted to the rank of major to be a great fan of books. he. came to see valentino's support for the publishing house

a few days before his final flight he brought the latest version of his book to be published just a few months later. with a huge this is the bullet. in his he tells about how he feels when he gets into this craft alone or together with others to put up. this state commission investigating the cause of god and his death did not come to a definitive conclusion its report said briefly that some unclear circumstances and put the aircraft into a tailspin the pilots couldn't pull it out of the spin because their crafts altitude was too low and they'd run out of time. all the materials relating to the investigation were kept under lock and key even commission experts were unaware of the result of the commission's work but some of them suggested their own theories. would be up and close a lot of version is that they hate it weather balloon it is spinning off some six

hundred kilometers an hour at that of just that if they're going to feel like the impacts equivalent must have been a three tons. of. it going to left them out if you unsealed the common sense through the aircraft into a sudden it could be in a through with a lot of them the version is based on speculation that the fighters cockpit had already come open before it hit the ground in other words the pilots were not in control of their plane after losing consciousness when it hit a weather balloon. violator yes a cough is a flight instructor he was up in the air on the fateful morning of march twenty seventh he says faulty on board instruments may have caused the tragedy. that's normal and i don't wish to draw parallels with other disasters i knew they felt. into a spin after finishing the exercise a tumble and a steel door and with

a tilt of sixty degrees. there were no clouds when they started their report. it was soon as they entered the clouds they lost their bearings. and. fifteen years after got a nice death professor billet sort of. put forward yet another theory for the disaster according to them the fighter entered the turbulence left behind by a supersonic aircraft that had been in the area shortly before the crash and in turbulence put gotten into a spin the pilots were unable to pull their aircraft now they needed two hundred three hundred more meters two or three more seconds. the old pilots agree that in a craft can't fall into a spin when it enters turbulence or puffed a special tests have proven that there is no spin in such situations instead it's that you have been in turbulence many times during tests when he answered turbulence your aircraft askew just some thoughts you immediately regained control

of that he thought i would have. all the remains of good got in sarah craft is kept in some twenty sealed barrels the standing orders to keep to several tons of twisted steel that used to be a training fighter jet for ever though a state commission has not conclusively established the cause of god instead. chances are these will someday be open so that people can once again search for answers behind the death of the first man to cross the space frontier. descent until flying club get in springboard for his rise to fame has been renamed after the first cosmic not young people who dream about flying high come here today as they used to in the mid one nine hundred fifty s. . quite like the first cousin on future pilot shelf off we

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