Sep 132022
This loss of aircraft and crew didn’t need to happen… two SU-25’s took off at the same time and seemed to clip each other in flight, causing one to promptly crash and explode. Alternative explanation: banking too much, too soon, at too low of an airspeed, causing a wing stall. Gotta wonder if there was a problem with the pilots… either negligence/arrogance in the simultaneous takeoff (showing off?), or perhaps fatigue from nonstop missions against an enemy with a pretty good track record of turning planes like that into smoking ruins.