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more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images go. on the streets of canada after. a child operation today. march twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred sixty. drone of aircraft 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 blood unicity ogun and you got it the

first ever made in space. seven years prior warning people twelve thousand nine hundred sixty one rescue helicopters flew over the plane around the city of san antone 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. and a flight into 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 geary's conclusive an important question of still remain. on the morning of april twelfth one nine hundred sixty one get a good get and woke up at half past five in the morning is breakfast space food

from 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. approaching the night lost track of that night as it gradually blended with the. normally i would have woken up in the morning and headed for the launches. are you who i thought about that night i didn't sleep in your new shoes needless to say. at any rate many myself included were found more agitated than hearing got a shim you. were good after final medical checkups good got in was helped into a space suit a bus transported him in his back up to the rocket this known footage shows chairman of the state commission. and me walking from the bus towards the spacecraft's chief designer sygate co you know what are you and other members of the commission seated around a table when you. got in and wishes him

a good journey i take a got in by the hand and take him to a ladder leading to the lift that's now about fifteen steps separate him from the list. on march twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred sixty eight the last morning of good got in his 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 good got and would have to fly tandem with flight instructor city ogun even though he was authorized to pilot aircraft on his own. we were flying in. in the clouds he did a very good job piloting the aircraft and showed a good command of the radio 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 a got in was to fly three times he was slated for two solo flights after the outing with instructor city. he and got into it seats in the cockpit of a mc training jet several minutes passed before they were allowed to take off. they reached what we call the point of turnaround in accordance with the flight pilots must treat start line before going into the flight zone after that they go through an air core door and enter the zone and only then did they begin to a sense of. april twelfth nine hundred sixty one just a few minutes past nine in the morning you got in is already in the cabin of the bus stop rocket final preparations and checks are being made all that remains is to

shut the hatch. it is a nerve racking operation for all associations of hot it's an unpleasant moment because of the consequences if the hatches law as it should be the cabin is him a tightly sealed and the flight is normal condition not a cosmonauts life might be in danger but he had a man. with a hash lot down in 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 knots and removed the hatch in a time first snow. look it was with the line speed to the connection with signals whether or not the hatches properly sealed. when everything there was ok moved was

on march twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred eighty eight good guidance training jet takes off from the runway to color scheme military airfield and heads eastward towards the flight zone the training exercises to last fifteen to twenty minutes the plane includes a barrel rolls hook turns and vertical loops but only four minutes later she colored skis flight controller here's good got an report done heading for base. and joining the third turn i heard gerunds voice. she was so quiet. right after that i reported to the commanding officer that i had heard the voice of number six to five. the flight commander was not alarmed quite clearly message found nothing strange about hearing good god and not the instructor said yogen chuckling over the airwaves. report 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 busto crockett takes off from the launch pad. got in radios back a phrase that within 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 eject from the descent module several kilometers above ground. for the special features was the seat. of the mechanism was powerful enough to eject. wearing a space suit. now clearly with a year at

a certain altitude the entry hatch was jettisoned because that made it possible for the cosmonauts to eject from the spacecraft. thirty nine this time there was no forest here at all there were only three things in dispute they have since grown into tall trees on the morning of april twelfth one thousand nine hundred eighty one conover was a six year old girl are 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. while my grandma they can't tough questions where he was from i remember he said she was from a ship where the positive there was no want anyway any other place but then she said i'm from a space ship. grandmother was the first humans to see got in after his return from outer space half an hour later a search party found a landing site in the south of regent only

a handful of people knew god and when he woke up on the morning of april twelfth when he went to bed the same day he had acquired global fame. garron and i in the flying club this picture shows us near a yacht eighteen airplane only a short distance separates the place where the first cosmonauts flight began and the place where he finally touched down both are in the set up to free agent we are going to meet up with if i make a garland september ninety four when both of us were going through a course of training at the club. or in several others or graduated from a school training young people for jobs in industry. thank you. yeah we just as great fans of aviation as myself who are here together at the globe. in sharing classroom desks and sitting examinations together. it just so happens that we had the same instructor. through. a real noon on march twenty seventh one thousand

sixty eight the flight controller of the skull of ski airfield was desperately trying to contact the 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 in and said you didn't respond to calls to contact ground control it became clear half an hour later that the fighter 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 her care and. 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 that two men had no chance for

survival the question immediately coming to mind was why such skilled pilots had been able to eject from their cockpit. says that there would be everybody wants to know why they didn't to chip in but in my day don't understand a pilot psychology something goes wrong with the zero play thing the pilot tries to get things right rather than each. simple because it is a former test pilot and he was a member of the commission looking into what caused the guidance death according to one of the initial geary's bad weather could have been responsible for the crash. due to 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 pilot might me a mistake in such conditions. no other air crash investigation in soviet history and receipt. if such attention even the tiniest plane fragments were collected from

the site what 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 may rise to a multitude of theories explaining what had caused the tragedy. wealthy british science some time to. market finance can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much cause or run no holds barred of the global financial headlines tune into khan's record. download the official on t.m.p.

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this is moscow radio station so disobedient aren't 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 and the first time ever a 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 good he got it. correct with may and some of my friends were in college getting ready for an exam in higher mathematics. but undergrad got dark and got older suddenly

a fellow student burst into the classroom. and says someone by the name of karen had been launched into space on it. yes 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 nine hundred sixty one in ceremony all steps major got in march toward soviet leader nikita khrushchev without noticing the issue aces and come undone still he made his official report. her very first secretary of the communist policy of the soviet union it is my pleasure trip to see you at the world's first space flight a boat that will start space suit and it on the twelfth of april one thousand nine hundred sixty one year. ships systems and equipment has been working like

clockwork without fail on an excellent healthy and ready to fulfill any new assignments by our party and government. major garrett. in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight who's a good god and death spread around the country almost as fast as news of his spaceflight seven years prior and that was despite the fact that the announcement 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 record seen by panels of scientists who had established the flights the exact trajectory we used to reports to pass judgment on whether the two men had done the right thing for. the. lack of information was the main problem facing the commission apart from that got into reports from the flight soon there

were only readings from on board instruments the investigators were not sure that they were reliable. in the event of a serious accident three eighty caterers of on board instruments weave an imprint on the remaining corner of the inexplicably as a rule it's possible to locate to position of the pointer at the time of the fresh . trigger got 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 good got him begin to travel widely and around the soviet union and abroad each time is 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 and 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. to say suzanne emerged from onto the table what she shared with horror and it's the thought that i would be unable to take any pictures at all for the i saw the bear crow was occupied by a venerable recorders where there was no place for a voice like me anyway which is when i talk right beside him he showed nori action and only when the slightest just sure where you just went on speaking he's going to use 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 there's nothing special about this photograph except that it gar instance side by side with. a pistol make

reprints of it. i like some of the calls that have seized the crash site from an altitude of four hundred meters for the first time the model is standing at the site where the world's first cosmonaut died is hardly visible. it's been established to the weather was bad doing the fun and there were two layers of clouds. like some this father is a well known designer of aircraft engines he says it's the aircraft's motor that caused the disaster. this situation unfolded as follows. when the pilots found themselves in the lower level of clouds and the conventional chute of one thousand five hundred meters the engine fails a little and even they tried to keep it going by forcing it to work at maximum capacity. to an abrupt halt in front of. the

theory that the engine was responsible for the crashes based on beings 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 timofey cause that if we've got an inside your going became aware of the slowdown they tried to restart the engine. almost. needed two hundred normal conditions but in this engine can be restarted in fine it's. regressively. the situation during a good guarding the last flight was such that the pilot was short of else achieved on time so they couldn't react because they had no time for that. in the mid one nine hundred sixty s. got into indicated his desire to get back in the cockpit 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 it 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. i first met him at a publishing have years ago frankly i had not expected or lieutenants recently promoted to the rank of major to be a great fan of books. gooding 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 this 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 to 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 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 results of the commission's work but some of them suggested their own theories. would be up and pull is not a version is that they hate it weather balloon it is even if some six hundred kilometers an hour of it that of just would that if that were do feel like cats equivalent must have been eclipsed three tons of. data from i'm. going to let them out think i don't see old the common sense of the aircraft interested in everyday through thought of the film. mikel 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 he hit a weather balloon. valet to us a call fiza 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 fell. 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 if they lost their bearings. and would fifteen years after got its death professor ability to close g.m. cars may not tell it c.e.o.

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 the turbulence put your guidance jet 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 fall into a spin when it answers turbulence through a special tests have proven that there is no spin in such situations credits that you should have been interviewing so many times during tests when he answered turbulence your aircraft risk you decide but you immediately regained control of that it's open to. all the remains of who got into your craft just kept in some twenty sealed barrels this standing orders fifty just several tons of twisted steel that used to be

a training fighter jet for ever there was still a commission as not conclusively established the cause of good got 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 getting to get in springboard for his rise to fame has been renamed after the first cousin or not young people who dream about flying high come here today as they used to in the mid one nine hundred fifty each. like the first cousin of a future pilot shall we go as the training aircraft beads around the.

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