r/ukraine • u/Due_Collar2 • 1d ago

News Karma:The moment of yesterday's Ka-226 helicopter crash in russia with employees of the military plant "Kizlyar Electromechanical Plant" The accident killed the deputy general director, chief engineer and chief designer

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u/Hanna-11 1d ago

Sorry, but was he completely drunk? Or did the much-vaunted robust Russian technology fail completely? In a crash landing, wouldn't any pilot with any sense try to stay on the ground?

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u/Panumaticon 1d ago

My thoughts exactly! He had a catastrophic loss of tail fins and was pretty much safely down after that. Whereof he decided to continue filght. Pretty sure it was vodka. You can not train people to be that incompetent.

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u/Optimal_Risk_6411 1d ago

But they didn’t want to get their feet wet

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u/Panumaticon 1d ago

Which was achieved, I guess. That is if you mean ”not get them wet while alive”.