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if you just. would be twenty four hours a day. comes face to face with the specter of terrorism for the first time five people have already been arrested. that killed thirteen and wounded over two hundred. continues between pro and forces in libya amid reports of more nato airstrikes involvement could do more harm than good and the experts say it's. radioactive ammunition. europe struggles to deal with the reality of
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multiculturalism. the rising wave of immigration and muslims and so outraged at the end of the book. with more on these stories in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime a fascinating life and a mysterious death special report on yuri gagarin the two flights is coming up next . march twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred sixty. the drone of aircraft in the skies over moscow region. rescuers look for a training jet didn't 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 vladimir city ogun and you really got it
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defers to her man in space. seven years prior warning people twelve thousand nine hundred sixty one rescue helicopters flew over the plane around the city of sit on top of one thousand kilometers from moscow they were looking for the spot where you to get got in and successfully landed after his first space mission. that trip took an average soviet pilot to international fame. to fly can take place seven years later cut short the life of the world's first cosmetic what happened in those few seconds after contact with got in was lost what caused this disaster for forty years later no theory is conclusive and important questions still remain. on the morning of april twelfth one thousand nine hundred sixty one you to get out
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and woke up at half past five in the morning is breakfast space food from tubes even joke 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. the night lost track of that night as it gradually blended with don't. normally i would have woken up in the morning and headed for the launch sun. but that night i didn't sleep in your new mission is needless to say somebody right many myself included will find more agitated than a year ago got a shim usage good enough for final medical checkups good got and 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 road news and me walking from the bus towards the spacecraft's chief designer sygate cut off and other members of the commission
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stated around a table. got in and wishes him a good journey i take a got in by the hand and taken to a ladder leading to the lift 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 in his life mishaps plagued him from the very stark 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 to. cloud's he did a very good job piloting the aircraft showed
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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 allowed to pilot airplanes on a system. that he got in was to fly three times he was slated for two solo flights after the outing with instructor sitio get him good got into have seats in the cockpit of a mid 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 scheme pilots must reach that 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 assemble. the fruit twelve thousand 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
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shut the hatch. it is a nerve racking operation full associations of cause it's an unpleasant moment because of the consequences if the hatches locked as it should be the cabin is one medically sealed and the flight is normal but in this condition the cosmonauts life might be in danger. with the hash lock down and engineers ready to leave the launch site the chief designer called from mission control he said sensors that indicated the cabin was not reliably sealed the hatch had to be checked immediately. how he felt isn't hard to imagine. but the technicians knew their job well. then screwed the knots and removed the hatch in no time and he sneered. now before the mines fade to the connection with signals whether or not the hatches properly
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sealed will nuke everything there was a. movement on march twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred sixty eight and got in straining jed takes off from the runway a few color scheme military airfield and heads eastward towards the flight so the training exercises to last fifteen to twenty minutes the flaming fluids barrel rolls hook turns and vertical loops but only four minutes later she colored skis flight controller here's good out and report on heading the first base. joining the third turn i heard karen's voice. 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 by the early message found nothing strange about hearing good god and not the instructor said yogen
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chuckling over the airwaves. report would be his last words that reach the flight command. if true twelfth one thousand nine hundred sixty one nine o seven am the first man busto profit takes off from the launch pad. got in the 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 and the spacecraft began 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. with one of the special features was the seat. of the mechanism was powerful enough to a genuine cosmonaut wearing a spacesuit. another unit with a year at
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a certain altitude the entry hatch was jettisoned. made it possible for the cosmonauts to eject from the space crew to ensure. the team and that he 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 eighty one reader chris conover was a six year old girl out 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. my grandma they can't tough consumer questions way he was the broom i remember she said she was from a ship with a positive there was no want anywhere near the place but then she said i'm from a spaceship. her grandmother with the first humans to see got in after his return from outer space half an hour later
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a search party found the landing site in the south of regent only a handful of people knew who 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 for the very. good karen and i in the flying club this picture shows us near a jack 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 out to free agent wright and. i met a garland september night if you for when both of us were going through a course of training at the club. he and several others had graduated from school training young people for jobs in industry. thank you to me there were just as great fans of aviation as myself who did it we kept together at the globe. in sharing classroom desks and sitting examinations together. it just so happens that
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we have the same instructor. they were. around noon 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 sixty 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 the fighter had been involved in an accident. the air force regiments second in command were told me to reports to the general. he told me that something had happened to you karen hughes ago where the. 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 disaster mended two men had no chance for survival the
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question immediately coming to mind was why such skilled pilots had been unable to eject from their cockpit. is a day everybody wants to know why they didn't to jet anybody my they don't understand a pilot's psychology good cheape when something goes wrong with the serial plan the pilot tries to get things right rather than the general. stupid and is a former test pilot he was a member of the commission looking into what caused the guidance death according to one of the initial dearie he's bad weather could have been responsible for the crash that had been trouble was that they were flying between clothes on an aircraft isn't thick clouds difficult to put out it was still matters become even worse considering that the pilots might meet and it's taken such conditions. no other air crash investigation in soviet history and receive such thorough attention even the tiniest plane fragments were collected from this site but investigators
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can glean only a small amount of information from the wreckage besides in the one nine hundred sixty s. the aircraft were not equipped with flight recorders and the lack of data gave rise to a multitude of theories explaining what had caused the tragedy. of the. space is a lot of our national security there is no substitute and there is no alternative to military comes in space. bombs on target time element. in the us will. those two little over three space shuttle landings seat. better than. any frame down the field have to count. down and we must. be.
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several hundred million dollars of investment in the peaceful uses of body space. is incredible investment from the united states and from the european union can add other countries like this all this stuff is completely in jeopardy if we start putting weapons in outer space. if. eleven in a country that don't understand that there's more violence in the streets of this country than there are in the streets in afghanistan or baghdad. in one night in desperation the young man braces. as if this.
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is true but. i'm. proud of this room and beyond. the streets of the. this is moscow radio stations of the soviet union aren't here. on april twelfth one nine hundred sixty one people across the soviet union were glued to their radios they heard a scummy message for the first time ever. and man had broken out of earth's gravitational pull and go into outer space. the first minute do so was the soviet union's very own duty got in. practice can lay in some of my friends were in college getting ready for an exam in
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higher mathematics. and their grade got darker to god it was a fellow student burst into the classroom miss someone by the name of karen had been launched into space article. we asked him what the patronymic over his 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 that issue aces and come undone still he made his official report. comrade first secretary of the communist tulsi of the soviet union it is my pleasure trip to see you. the world's first space flight a job that will start space ship and it on the twelfth of april one thousand nine
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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 a party and government ready 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 long delayed and was couched in very terse phrasing. the commission to investigate the cause of the tragedy was already in full swing. and in which we were provided with reports about panels of scientists who had established a flight c exact trajectory we used to reports to pass judgment on whether the two men had done the right thing that flight i would hope that we will reach
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a lack of information was the main problem facing the commission apart from good guidance reports 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 to the eighty creators of on board instruments we've been imprinted on the remaining portal to even explain as a rule it's possible to look eight to position over points at the time of the crash you. 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 good 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 good got him began to travel widely and around the soviet union and abroad each time is visited attracted
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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. as soon as i emerged from onto the table i shared with horror and a thought that i would be unable to take any pictures at all for i saw that their crew was occupied by a venerable recorders where there was no place for a voice like me anyway so when i poked alk right beside him he showed nori action only when the slightest just sure where you just went on speaking he was going to use when he finished speaking and i finished taking pictures of he turned to me and said because so through have you been able to take any pictures and there is
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nothing special about this photograph except that if the gaar instance side by side with the liberal gita they still make reprints of it. alecks some of the calls that have seized the crash site from an altitude of four hundred meters for the first time jobless standing at the site where the world's first cars may not guide is hardly visible. it's been established to the weather was bad doing the fun and there were two layers of clouds. i let some of 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 followers. thought when the pilots found themselves in the lower level of clouds in the suit of one thousand five hundred meters the engine failed i mean they tried to
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keep it going by forcing it to work at maximum capacity. don't brought it to an abrupt halt in flight. fearing that the engine was responsible for the crashes based on beings obtained from onboard instruments divil atsugi 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 tina fey cause if we'd gotten in city again became aware of the slowdown they tried to restart the engine. and they'd need to under normal conditions i mean this engine can be restarted and thought it. through aggressively . the situation during the guarding the last flight that it 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.
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got any 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 good god was denied a chance to pilot planes instead he was offered executive jobs he was appointed to the post of deputy head of qassam not training center. still he attended classes at an air force academy and wrote a book. future war i first met him at a publishing house frankly i had not expected a lieutenant recently promoted to the rank of major to be a great fan of books. 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. and this is the bullet. in his he tells about how he
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feels when he gets into this craft alone or together with others to put up. this tree 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 include 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 with some of them suggested their own theories. would pick up and pull as a lot of version is that they had a weather balloon you know some six hundred kilometers an hour at that of just would that if that were goofy logic packs equivalent must have been accused three times that of course the data from. the other left them out i
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concealed the common sense of the aircraft into sudden and really through thought of the film. maker 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. valet to us the 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 known and i don't wish to draw parallels with a lot of disasters i knew they fell. into a spin after finishing the exercise about a tumble and a steel door and with a tilt of sixty degrees. where there were no clouds when they started their report . it was soon as they entered the clouds if they lost their barracks.
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fifteen years after got in this death professor billet said of course he had a cause for not delicacy on the 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 out they needed two hundred three hundred more meters two or three more seconds. here to go pilots agreed it in a craft can fall into a spin when its answer is turbulence above through a special tests have proven that there is no spin in such situations that it's that you have been in turbulence many times during tests when you answer turbulence your aircraft askew just sighed but you immediately regained control of that it's a product.
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of the remains of could go out and sir 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 as not conclusively established because 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 did he get a 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 each. like the first cosmonaut future pilot shelled off we go as the training aircraft leaves a runway. more
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