Oleg Leonidovich Spichka ( 1972 - 2011 ) - Russian military pilot, head of the flight test service of the Flight Test Center GLITS them. Chkalov . Test pilot of the 1st class, Hero of the Russian Federation (2012) [1] .
- Born on March 14, 1972 in the city of Tbilisi [2] .
- 1990–1994 - study at the Kaczynski Air Force Academy, then served as an instructor pilot in an aviation training regiment, trained cadets [2] .
- 2001–2011 - after graduating with honors from the CRLI, served as a test pilot and chief of the flight test service at the GLITZ Flight Test Center [2] .
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| Date of Birth | March 14, 1972 | |||||
| Place of Birth | Tbilisi , Georgian SSR , USSR | |||||
| Date of death | June 23, 2011 (39 years) | |||||
| Place of death | OK. Kabanovo Farm, Akhtubinsky District , Astrakhan Region , Russia | |||||
| Affiliation |  Russia | |||||
| Type of army | Russian Air Force | |||||
| Years of service | 1990 - 2011 | |||||
| Rank | the colonel | |||||
| Commanded | Head of Flight Test Service GLITS them. V.P. Chkalova | |||||
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- He died on June 23, 2011 in the area of Kabanovo and Grinkovo farms ( Astrakhan Oblast ) while performing complex aerobatics during a test flight. His carrier-based fighter MiG-29KUB, which took off from the Akhtubinsk airfield, crashed [3] . The plane belonged to the Russian Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation "MiG" [4] and was intended for delivery to the armament of the aircraft carrier "Admiral Gorshkov" [5] . First, information appeared in the press that the pilot and navigator managed to eject, but died [6] [7] . Later, representatives of the Ministry of Defense officially announced that both pilots, Oleg Spichka and Alexander Kruzhalin , died as a result of the disaster [2] [8] . When the pilots realized that the experimental machine could not be saved, they decided to take it away from the locality (the village of Kabanovo), thereby saving its inhabitants [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Pilots of the crashed MiG-29 became posthumous Heroes of Russia
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Country that does not know its Heroes (Inaccessible link) . The appeal date is April 13, 2012. Archived May 26, 2012.
- ↑ The fighter crashed in the Astrakhan region during a test flight (rus.)
- ↑ Director General of the MiG flies to the crash site of the fighter in the Astrakhan region (rus.)
- ↑ Crashed in the Russian Federation, the MiG-29 was intended to equip the Indian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov (Rus.)
- ↑ A MiG-29 fighter crashed in the Astrakhan region, two crew members died (Rus.)
- ↑ Ministry of Emergency Situations: The pilot of the fallen MiG-29 and his assistant, according to preliminary data, ejected (rus.)
- ↑ Defense Ministry: Both crew members of the crashed MiG-29 fighter died (rus.)
Links
Match, Oleg Leonidovich . The site " Heroes of the country ."