A Su-27 FLANKER of the Russian Air Force crashed in Lithuania yesterday (9-15-05). The pilot catapulted and is now in Lithuanian custody. The aircraft hit the ground 55 km from Kaunas.
Apperently the Su-27 was escorting a radar surveillance aircraft A-50 from Saint Petersburg to Kaliningrad when it run out of fuel.
Prior to the accident the Estonians complained that the lot of Russian aircraft violated Estonian airspace.
I guess that this will cause yet more obsticles with the already somewhat troublesome Russian-Baltic relations.
Some articles:
http://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/crime/article.php?id=7492230 (Photos!)
http://www.gazeta.ru/2005/09/16/last171054.shtml
http://www.prime-tass.ru/news/show.asp?id=680&ct=articles
http://www.prime-tass.ru/news/show.asp?id=532668&ct=news
http://www.interfax.ru/r/B/themearchive/317.html?menu=1&id_issue=11384394
http://www.rian.ru/incidents/accident/20050915/41407587.html
http://www.kaliningrad.ru/news/incidents/k60882.html
http://www.kaliningrad.ru/news/politics/k60907.html
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September 16, 2005 at 2:06 pm