On March 27, 1968, during a training flight on the MiG-15UTI, Yuri Gagarin and his instructor pilot Vladimir Seryogin (who also taught Tereshkova) crashed.
29 volumes of the investigation were top classified; in 2003, only the state commission’s conclusion about the causes of their deaths was revealed. This is a “sharp maneuver and falling into a tailspin,” but why such a maneuver was made – opinions differ, there is no official version.
According to the head of the Cosmonaut Training Center, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Seryogin was not feeling well at the time and could have gotten sick while performing turns. He could unfasten the seat and parachute straps, and his body could lock the controls. Gagarin could make turns to bring Seryogin to his senses – until his death.
The version of the pilot Vladimir Aksenov is that the crew made a mistake in difficult weather conditions, which led to the crash. The version of Air Force veteran Eduard Shersher – the cause of the disaster was “hussarism” – performing aerobatics that were not specified in the flight mission.
There is an version of Air Force Colonel Igor Kuznetsov – the technicians left one of the ventilation taps half-open and oxygen starvation began. The version is disputed – depressurization even then did not pose a threat to the crew.
According to Lieutenant General Belotserkovsky and cosmonaut Leonov, the plane went into a flat tailspin as a result of evading the Su-15 or falling into its wake or colliding with a balloon.
In 2023, the State Archive declassified photographs from the crash site – in some of them one can discern fragments of the MiG-15UTI fuselage and parts of pilot jackets.
Everlasting memory.
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