A new explanation comes from russian media to the fact that a week ago, on October 17, a Su-34 aircraft crashed into a residential building in Yeysk.
As russian propaganda media TASS claims, referring to its sources, the reason behind the plane’s fall was two seagulls flying into the engine. As stated, the remnants of the birds were found during the examination; noted that those got trapped into the engine when it was taking off.
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But despite all the efforts to make it sound reasonable, in every footage of the accident, we can see no engine on fire, contrary to the claims of russian media. Therefore, the assumption of the problem being in the engine is non-viable.
Considering that, it looks like russia is trying to hide the real reason that led to the catastrophe with the Su-34, and the Su-30SM, too, which fell straight after takeoff from the aircraft factory the other day.
Defense Express earlier made an assumption that the real issue could be the SDU-10 flight control system which is supposed to automatically maintain a stable flight and is installed both on the Su-34 and Su-30SM aircraft. Perhaps the russian federation wasn’t able to provide a viable import substitution of the western components used in this system.
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