It seems like they all go down during Airshows or preparing for Airshows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SU_27

 

Damn, I was just at an airshow 2 weeks ago and they had one there. It was just a static display tho, and i guess im grateful for that now. I dont think thats something i'd really want to see. Sweet lookin' plane though...

 

Did the pilots eject?

 

The article said the only 2 fatals were the 2 crew members

 

Wasn't this plane kind of a knock off of the F15 that the soviets had come up with partly based on stolen schematics? I thought I had heard this on one of those "Top Ten Miltary Fighter Jets" shows on military channel.


And which one is the Russian badass plane with the thrust vectoring engine nozzles that can turn on a dime?

 

That was the Mig 29...but yeah - same program.

You might be thinking of this one: Su-30

 

Nope. Seconds before the crash the pilot radioed he'd try to clear out of the crowd and save the plane . BTW, one of my "comrade" was about 400 ft from the place where the plane crashed .