LOL at these jokers that cannot differentiate between Y-8 and a proper passenger jet. these people love to be fooled by their commie masters.
Y-8G long-range jammer crashes 12 people dead
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HENRI KENHMANN
JANUARY 31, 2018
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On the evening of Monday, January 29, around 8:40 pm local time, the Chinese Air Force issued
a short statement that one of their aircraft crashed in the Guizhou Mountain Province, during training that took place earlier in the afternoon, and that rescue operations are underway. The official text did not mention any details about the type of devices or the state of research, but by combining local sources and elements published on Chinese social networks, we learn that it would actually be a Y-8G electronic jammer aircraft, and that the 5 crew members and 7 operators on board would all have died in the crash.
If this is confirmed, then it will be the deadliest accident of the Chinese Air Force since June 2006, when a prototype AWACS KJ-200 crashed in the east of the country because of icing wing, killing all of the forty people on board, mainly technicians and engineers from the 38th CETC Institute.
We still know very little about the accident, but it was around 17:35 local time that the first message about a possible plane crash at Zunyi Xinzhou airport appeared on the Chinese social network Weibo (an equivalent of American Twitter), without specifying the type of aircraft concerned.
A first video began to circulate shortly after and shows the flight of a plane that resembles an Airbus A320 type commercial jet airliner flying at very low altitude, then the next scene shows wrecks on fire. But it turns out that the first part of this video has nothing to do with the crash.
It is then on one of the amateur videos diffused later by the local inhabitants that one finds the first index on the identity of the apparatus. Indeed, we can see on a passage some figures that end with "13" or "513" written on a sign, and they could correspond to the registration of a military aircraft.
Part of the wreckage showing a registration ending in "13"
The Y-8G registered 30513 that crashed last January 29.
At the same time, journalists from the Beijing Beijing News press were able to contact Suiyang County City Hall (绥阳 县), who confirmed the plane crash in Zheng Chang Zhen Village (郑 场 镇), 9 km away. north of Zunyi Xinzhou Airport. The press article was quickly removed from the site but the information has already been picked up by many Chinese media.
And it is several sources close to the Chinese Air Force that finally converge to say that it is a Y-8G registered 30513, belonging to a regiment of the 20th Division which is stationed a priori at the air base of Leizhuang (磊 庄), a hundred kilometers from the crash site, which is concerned by this fatal accident.
The place of the crash (Images: East Pendulum)
Characterized by its two wide lateral radomes that could host ECM antennas, the Y-8G is based on the Y-8 Category II platform and its inaugural flight dates back to 2004.
This aircraft specializes in long-range electronic jamming has entered into service with the Chinese Air Force with a relatively limited number, about a dozen. Some are deployed to the east and fly regularly over the Pacific Ocean in operations around the first chain of islands, while the rest are stationed in southwest China to handle the direction. from India, including the one that crashed on Monday.
Y-8Gs and other "special" aircraft on the final assembly line
Note that the Chinese army has already lost 10 aircraft in a single year 2017, among which are a J-10AH, a J-11BH and a J-15 of the navy, a J-10S two-seater, two J-10A and an Air Force JH-7A bomber fighter, as well as a JL-8 from the Air Force School and an Army Mi-171 helicopter. 7 pilots died.
And with a new training program that has just been published by the Central Military Commission, which further intensifies the training topics to be even closer to the actual fights, we could already foresee a possible increase of the accidents. of this kind in the next two years.
To be continued.
Henri K.
http://www.eastpendulum.com/crash-dun-brouilleur-longue-portee-y-8g-faisant-12-morts
The names of the 12 personnel lost in this crash are on the appendix of this article. I'd rather not post them on @Armand2REP 's joke thread out of respect for these servicemen.