The carrier-based aviation group of the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov of the Russian Navy, which is participating in the operation against militants in Syria, suffered another loss - a heavy carrier-based fighter Su-33. This was reported by the aviation website The Aviationist.

According to the publication, the incident occurred in the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday, December 3. The Su-33, during its second landing approach to the deck of the Kuznetsov in simple weather conditions (visibility - 10 km, waves - 4 points, wind - 12 knots), was unable to hook the arresting arrester cable and go for the next attempt. The fighter fell into the water at the stem of the aircraft carrier, the pilot ejected and was rescued from the water by an on-duty helicopter, writes The Aviationist.

The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed the loss of the Su-33 . According to the ministry, the Su-33 rolled off the deck when landing on the Admiral Kuznetsov due to a broken arrestor cable. “The fighter pilot managed to eject and was brought on board by the search and rescue service. The pilot’s health is not in danger,” the message says.

Later, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov commented on the fighter accident: according to him, the life of the pilot is more important than the plane. “This is very intense, difficult work, heroic work... this is how it should be assessed. First of all, the point is that the pilot remained alive,” Peskov emphasized.

Less than three weeks ago, the Kuznetsov air group suffered another loss: on November 13, a MiG-29KUBR fell into the sea, the pilot was rescued. The Aviationist was also one of the first to report the incident. The first versions linked the accident to an engine malfunction. The Ministry of Defense named the cause of the accident as a technical malfunction during training flights, without specifying its nature and location. Later, a detailed version appeared in the authoritative military-technical blog bmpd : a malfunction of the aerofinisher, which the deck crew could not fix on time. According to this version, the MiG-29K, which was in the Kuznetsov waiting area, ran out of fuel, and after that the pilot was forced to leave the plane. As for whether the MiG-29K could have gone to the coastal air base in Khmeimim if it had immediately received such an instruction, the opinions of aviation experts were divided.

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"Admiral Kuznetsov" lost a Su-33 fighter