He miraculously survived: the Tu-160M ​​bomber, on which Putin was flying, burned down in Russia – mass media

Lyudmila Zhernovska17:47, 05/24/24

According to journalists, four engines were destroyed.

In Russia, on March 11, the Russian TU-160M ​​supersonic strategic missile-carrying bomber , on which Putin was flying, caught fire.

According to the Russian project of the Cheka-OGPU , during the preparation for take-off, one of the engines caught fire and was destroyed, three more were burned in the fire. The bomber suffered significant damage, all models with such engines were temporarily suspended from flying.

It is noted that it is a TU-160M ​​with flight number 801. “On February 22, Putin made a flight on this very plane and remained alive only due to the short duration of the flight,” they write.

According to journalists, the fire and explosion of the first engine occurred as a result of the destruction of the faulty support of the engine’s turbine. At the time of the accident, the engine had run for about 50 hours after overhaul.

Putin’s Tu-160M ​​flight: what is known

We will remind, on February 22, the Kremlin ruler made a half-hour flight on a modernized Tu-160M ​​strategic bomber in Tatarstan.

After the flight, Putin told reporters that it was a “reliable” and modernized aircraft that could be adopted by the Russian Air Force.

It was also reported about his visit to the Kazan Aviation Plant, where he was presented with four Tu-160M , two of which are new.

(C)UNIAN 2024

8 comments

    • putler (or a body double) flew on the plane on February 22; the engine caught fire on March 11. That’s a lot of seconds in between…

      • Yup, Larry, it almost certainly was a doppelgaenger. Why should Putin run such a risk himself? He wouldn’t. This wasn’t an important meeting, just a publicity stunt, so ge could send a double, without any problems. 🙄

  1. “After the flight, Putin told reporters that it was a “reliable” and modernized aircraft that could be adopted by the Russian Air Force.”

    By russian standards it was reliable, only one of the engines caught fire. I have no doubt someone will have been sent to Ukraine over this near escape.

  2. Why doesn’t the devil ever get this high-heeled fecal matter? Oh, that’s right. Not even he wants vlad.

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