base. 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. that trip took an average soviet pilot to international fame. the flight in took place seven years later cut short the life of the world's first. what happened in those few seconds after contact with god and was lost what caused this disaster for forty years later no theory is conclusive an important question still remains. on the morning of april twelfth one thousand nine hundred sixty one. half past five in the morning. space food from even joked about it saying it was only fit for

a man in orbit meanwhile the kid was sitting on the launch pad ready to catapult him into outer space. 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. 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 and his back up to the rock. shows chairman of the state commission. and me walking from the bus towards the spacecraft's chief designer. and other members of the commission stated around a table. currently hugs and wishes him

a good journey i take by the hand and take him to a ladder leading to the lift that's now about fifteen steps separate him from the lived. on march twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 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 equipment. also stayed well within the flight so very

together we did a very good job and. he was given x. little marks and allowed to pilot airplanes on a system. that was to fly three times he was slated for two solo flight after the outing with instructor city he got into it seats in the cockpit of a training jet several minutes passed before they were allowed to take off. they reached will be cold the point of turnaround in accordance with the flight pilot's must reach the line before going into the flight so after about 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 got in is already in the cabin of the. final preparations and checks are being made all that remains is to show. the hatch

. 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 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. 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 took turns in vertical loops but only four minutes later flight controller here's got a report done heading from 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. his last

words that reach the flight command. april twelfth one thousand nine hundred sixty one nine o seven am the first manifesto prompted 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 the 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 object from the descent module several kilometers above ground. that's one of the special features was the seat. of the mechanism was powerful enough to eject wearing a space suit. number your new with a certain altitude the entry which was jettisoned and. made it possible for the

cosmonauts to eject from the spacecraft. good even though this time there was no forest here there were only seedlings in this field they have since grown into a tall tree. on the morning of april twelfth one thousand nine hundred sixty one conover was a six year old girl planning 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. questions where he was from i remember he said he was from a ship. there was no want any way any of the place but then he said i'm from a space ship. 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 twelfth when he went to bed the same day he had acquired global fame. in the flying club this picture shows us nearly 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. graduated from high school training young people for jobs in industry. were 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 that something had 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 the death according to one of the initial dairies bad weather could have been responsible for the crash. they were flying between clothes when an aircraft he's 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 receive such attention even the tiniest plane fragments were collected from the 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 the realm for. the future covered. live only next to the border but egypt. a quarter of peace and war. they are responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved ones. they are ready to take any risk.

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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. store to. practice khamenei and some of my friends were in college getting ready for an exam in higher mathematics. but i regret it got dark corridor. a fellow student bursts into the classroom. and says someone by the name of could have been launched into space. we asked him what the patronymic this pilot. which he said now we knew that he was yuri gagarin.

there was a red carpet rolled out on the airfield of a moscow airport on april fourteenth nine hundred sixty one in ceremony all steps major got in march toward soviet leader nikita khrushchev without noticing that issue come undone still he made his official report. comrade first secretary of the communist policy of the soviet union it is my pleasure trip to. the world's first space flight to both have all stuck spaceship anded on the twelfth of april one thousand 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 already made. in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight. deaths spread around the country almost as fast as news of his spaceflight seven years prior was despite the fact that

d.n.a. has been a 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 guy. from the flight zone there were only readings from on board instruments the investigators were not sure that they were reliable. in the event of a serious accident the eighty creators of on board instruments we've been imprinted on the remaining part of the even explain as a rule it's possible to locate to position of the pointer at the time of the fresh

. out 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 to become a national icon. after his first spaceflight got in 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 buddy scopolamine remembers very well how his first famous photograph came to pass even 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 and it's the thought that i would be unable to take any pictures at all for that i saw that the back row 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 money when the slightest just just went on speaking when he finished speaking and i finished taking pictures of coke he turned to me and said because so what have you been able to take any pictures that there is nothing special about this photograph except that if you. ghar 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 time. standing at the site where the world's first cause may not died is hardly visible. it's been established to the weather was bad during the flight

there were two layers of clouds. like some of the father is a well known designer of aircraft engines he says it's the aircraft's motor that caused the disaster. if you will to properly 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 for both don't brought it to an abrupt halt in flight was the goal. to siri 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 that 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 in flight whether. it's regrettably. the situation during the good god ngs last flight it was such that the pilot was short on also two to untolerable 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 night in jeopardy for a long time got and 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. war movie i first met him at a publishing harris frankly i had not expected a lieutenant recently promoted to the rank of major to be a great fan of books lou. you're going 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. and this is the book. 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 in his death did not come to a definitive conclusion in 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 the aircraft's 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 pull out a lot of version is that they hate it weather balloon it is you know if some six hundred kilometers an hour limit of just that if they're going to feel like the impacts equivalent must have been a list of three tons of data from under. them and left them out by one sealed the cabin and sent the aircraft into a sudden being a through thought of the film the young's 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 the 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 a lot of 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. a lot. fifteen years after gotten its death professor billet sort of cause i'm not a leo enough 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 they needed two hundred three hundred more meters two or three more seconds. all pilots agree that

in a craft can't fall into a spin when it enters turbulence or puff that special tests have proven that there is no spin in such situations that you should have been in turbulence many times during a test when he answered turbulence your aircraft. but you immediately regained control of that it's open to. all the remains of good got into their craft is kept in some twenty sealed barrels this 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.

to set up the flying club did he get an springboard for his rise to fame has been renamed after the first cosmonaut young people who dream about flying high come here today as they used to in the mid one nine hundred fifty s. . like the first cousin a future pilot shall we go as their training aircraft needs a runway. download the official location on the phone or i pod touch from the i choose i'm still. life on the go. video on demand on teens my bold colors and r.s.s.

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almost a thousand people are detained in central moscow as police attempt to prevent ethnic violence at a protest linked to the murder of a football fan reports say some of the. the council of europe points the finger of blame at the internet silkie me to see the thing to properly investigate the actions of the cause of the liberation army both during and after the war and joining me in just a few moments from all from pristina. europe prepares for a new austerity protest with greece already and gulf strikes and riots. being used to pay for the mistakes of corrupt politicians.

the news from russia and from around the world this is in the russian capital good to have you with us this hour rival russian nationalist groups and ethnic north caucuses gangs have been involved in scattered clashes across moscow up to a thousand people have been arrested some of them are all and today's trouble comes off the violent clashes at the weekend following the murder of a football fan correspondent sean thomas i'm told we're at different sites in the city which saw some violence but certainly has been a very interesting is being here at. which is a major train station here in the center of moscow it is also kiev metro station is . so one of the main metro hubs here where different lines exchange so very busy place very interesting evening in fact let me take you back and paint a picture if you will this is a very large open area by a between the train station there is a european small center here as well as well as the moscow metro station thousands of police descended upon.