twenty seven nine hundred sixty. craft in the skies over moscow region. rescuers look for a training jet did it disappeared from radar screens. as soon as they spotted the crash site it was clear nobody could have survived. the aircraft was piloted by flight instructor. the first ever man in space. seven years prior on april twelfth one thousand 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 cosmos what happened in those few seconds after contact with got in was lost what caused this disaster over forty years later no geary's 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 the us still crockett was sitting on the launch pad ready to catapult him into outer space. of that night as it gradually blended with don't. normally i would have woken up in the morning and headed for the launch of. but that night i didn't sleep needless to say.

at any rate many myself included will find more agitated the nearer. good after final medical checkups got and was helped into a space suit a bus transporting him and his back up to the rocket this film footage shows chairman of the state commission. and me walking from the bus towards the spacecraft's chief designer. of groom and other members of the commission seated around a table. got in and wishes him a good journey i take got in by the hand and take him to a ladder leading to the lift but that's now about fifteen steps separate him from the lift. on march twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred sixty eight the last morning of good got a nice 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 job piloting the aircraft a good command of the equipment. also stayed well within the flight so 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 to solo flights after the outing with instructor city. he got into seats in the cockpit of a mig training jet. minutes passed before they were allowed to take off. they

reached will be called the point of turnaround in accordance with the flights pilots must reach that line before going into the flight zone after about they go through an air corridor and enter the zone and only then do they begin to a sense of. april twelfth one thousand nine hundred sixty one just a few minutes past nine in the morning you get out and 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. of hot it's an unpleasant moment because of the consequences if the hatches locked as it should be the cabin is hermetically sealed and the flight is normal. if not 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 well. they unscrewed the nuts and removed the hatch an atomic. weapons inspector the connection with signals whether or not the hatches properly sealed. when everything there was a mine 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 flight controllers here's good got a report done. 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. not alarmed by the early message found nothing strange about hearing good god and not the instructor said yogen over the airwaves. would be his last words that reach the flight command. april twelfth one thousand nine hundred sixty one nine o seven am the first man. takes off from the launch pad. radios back a phrase that would in a few hours would be known around the world as his signature line.

the first flight lasted one hundred eighty minutes to space craft begin to descend after orbiting the earth that was one of the most complicated phases of the mission because not was to object from the descent module several kilometers above the ground. of the special features was the seat. of the mechanism was powerful enough to eject. wearing a space suit. number of unit with a certain altitude the entry which was jettisoned and. made it possible 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 tall 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 he said she was from a ship. there was no want to anyway any of the place but then he said i'm from a space ship. there with the first humans to see 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 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 nine hundred fifty four when both of us were going through a course of training at the club. from a school training young people for jobs in industry. are just as great fans of aviation as myself. kept 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 the fighter jet trainer number six two five. the pilot had reported ten minutes before in theory the aircraft should have appeared over the runway two minutes after the radio exchange time passed. 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 took a government. 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 but you might they don't understand a pilot psychology something goes wrong with the serial killing the pilot tries to get things right rather than. simple is a former test pilot he was a member of the commission looking into what caused god instead according to one of

the initial dairies bad weather could have been responsible for the crash that you've been trouble was that they were flying between clothes when an aircraft is in thick clouds difficult to put out of a spin 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 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 theories explaining what had caused the tragedy. of nature and discovery.

communicate with the wild. test yourself and become free. nature can give you. that are killing innocent kids allies a call this of course and that's never absent. massaponax cosco what may i think of it every day. the flashbacks from the memories and. so much so long time i'm just here trying to tell you. i was ashamed. i was ashamed that i had been wounded i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why i got my legs. in

the mine. and what i want to be. i don't believe what i was going on once or i think. that i was a good soldier. but now most soldier on the other side and i think i'm just and. this is moscow radio stations of the soviet union are on here i guess. it's. 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. after

hours practice canadian some of my friends were in college getting ready for an exam in higher mathematics. and their grade got quantum got all of a sudden a fellow student burst into the classroom. and says someone by the name of garan had been launched into space on a golf. we asked him what the patronymic of this pilot. save if he said yes 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 one thousand sixty one in ceremony all steps major got in march toward soviet leader nikita khrushchev without noticing that issue aces had come undone still he made his official report. earlier comrade first secretary of the communist tulsi of the soviet union it is my

pleasure trip though to you. the world's first space flight above the vostok space ship ended on the twelfth of april one thousand nine hundred sixty one. terrible. 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 was despite the fact the d.n.a. had 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 a flight c. exact trajectory we used the reports to pass judgment on whether the two men had

done the right thing during that flight what the. lack of information was the main problem facing the commission apart from the reports from the flight so there were only readings from onboard instruments the investigators were not sure that they were reliable. in the event of a serious accident the eighty creators of on board instruments weave an imprint on the remaining corner of the inexplicably as a rule it's possible to locate the position of the pointer at the time of the pressure to. go 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 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 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 if the thought that i would be unable to take any pictures at all for the 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 noni when the slightest suggestion just went on speaking to us when he finished

speaking and i finished taking pictures he turned to me and said so what have you been able to take any pictures at the 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 time. standing at the site where the world's first cosmonaut 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 this 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 this situation unfolded as follows. through when the pilots found themselves in the lower level of clouds in

the booth at 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 or both don't brought it to an abrupt halt in flight with. 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 timothy cause if we'd gotten in city org and became aware of the slowdown they tried to restart the engine. almost a new good thing under normal conditions but in this engine can be restarted in thought of whether it's regrettably. the situation during the good god wrings last flight that it was such that the pilot was short on. 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 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 cost not training center. still he attended classes at an air force academy and wrote a book. i first met him out of publishing have this frankly i had not expected a lieutenant recently promoted to the rank of major to be a great fan of books. the. gun 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 this is the book. in as 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 the gun 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 and. 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 monitors you know stick they hate it whether balloon it is you know some six hundred kilometers an hour i meant that if yes would that if they're going to feel like the impacts

equivalent must have been a three tons. of i'm. going to have left them out i don't seal because i'm in and send thirty aircraft into a seven b.n.a. through thought of the film the younes 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. 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. fifteen years after got into death professor billet sort of. like celio 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 in turbulence put got him into a spin the pilots were unable to pull their aircraft they needed two hundred three hundred more meters two or three more seconds. old pilots agree that in a craft can't fall into a spin when it enters turbulence special tests have proven that there is no spin in such situations instead it's that you must have been in turbulence many times during a test when he answered turbulence your aircraft. but you immediately regained control of that it's a product. of

the remains of could go out and stare 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 on future pilot shell and off we go as their training aircraft leave the runway.

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