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In the Last Way - to the Motherland.
The Russian pilots who perished when falling the heavy
fighter MIG-31 had been Belarus born. As has already been informed, the
catastrophy happened last week in Arhangelsk region.
Their plane, allotted to the devision of the anti-aircraft
defence troops of Russia and based on the air-base in the town Kotlas,
crashed down into the boggy forest swamp from the height 12-13 kilometres
through obscure circumstanses. On the collapse place a crater with diameter
of 15 and depth of 6 meters arised, and soon filled up with water, that
impeded the work of savers. Only in the fifht day they managed to establish,
that the plane`s crew- Major Vasilij Strizhennikov and Captain Yurij Scherbanyov,
Grodno and Gorki (Moglyov region) born haden`t baled out. They had perished,
trying to save the plane.
As the BelTa correspondent was informed in the press-service
of the Byelorussian Ministry of defence, the bodies of the rerished pilots
had been taken to Belarus on the 24th of January. According to the instruction
of Major-General Alexandr Chumakov, the Minister of Defence, headquarters
of Air Force and leaders of military garrisons will render assistance in
funeral organization. The courageous pilots will be burried with all military
honours in their Motherland.
Major Vasilij Strizhenikov's wife and two children and
Captain Yurij Scherbenev's wife and son haven't waited them from the last
flight.
27.01.97.
Andrej Alexandrovich.
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Translator into English: I.Potapova
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