A Russian aviation blogger was killed in a fatal air defense error after his ultralight aircraft was mistaken for a Ukrainian drone and shot down

https://tvpworld.com/92270896/russian-aviation-blogger-killed-in-air-defense-blunder-near-moscow

28 Comments

  1. A microcosm of the bubble many Russians are in, somehow protected from the brutal reality of the war instigated in their names. It’s the impoverished people from peripherals torn apart at the front while the privileged carry on as though everything is perfectly normal. Russian aviation blogger, good grief!

  2. carlosdangermouse on

    Seems like a good candidate for a Darwin Award. There’s a time and a place for everything and that was not it.

  3. ZebraSandwich4Lyf on

    Tragic but ultimately avoidable, I cannot think of a worse hobby to take up during a time of war.

  4. I can’t get the article to open, but if I’m being honest ultralight aircraft usually do kind of look like a drone. It was maybe ill advised to do this during an active war. Sadly I bet his government has been lying to him, and saying that there is no serious conflict.

  5. morrisminor66 on

    Darwinism in action. You’ve got to be a complete numbskull to chose to fly something like that near a missile factory during a drone attack

  6. The Russian troops are dumb, we all know that much. But who in their right mind would want to go flying their own aircraft in an ACTIVE MILITARY ZONE?! How did you expect this would end?

  7. Clumsy_triathlete on

    At first, I was blaming the amateur pilot thinking he was doing a stunt near the border but this wasn’t the case. He was just flying somewhere south of Moscow away from Ukraine so it’s the inept Russian Military at fault and showing how scared they are

  8. OppositeFingat on

    >The crash site lies close to a facility that produces Iskander missiles, which have been widely used in the war in Ukraine, potentially contributing to the aircraft being misidentified amid increased drone activity. 

    For anyone wondering, this idiot was flying south-east of Moskow near a military factory in a period when Ukrainian drones return the SMO back to russia.

  9. Elusive_Zergling on

    Was it an error though? It’s not as if the mighty russia federation wouldn’t kill one of its own if he/she w/e said something the kremlin didn’t like.

  10. feel-the-avocado on

    I kinda feel like he should have known better than to be both russian and in a state of flight.