[kellyhound]

On Sunday, tragedy struck during an air festival in Villa Cañás, Argentina, as a military training jet, the L29 Dolphin, crashed, resulting in the loss of both the pilot and co-pilot's lives. The aircraft plummeted to the ground just meters away from spectators at the Aeroclub in Santa Fe.

This Czechoslovakian jet, originally designed for aerial combat training, made a low pass before executing a half spin and crashing to the ground. Tragically, both pilots perished instantly, their bodies engulfed by the ensuing fire as the aircraft exploded.

The aircraft's owner, identified as "G.V," was piloting it from Venado Tuerto, while the co-pilot resided in the Buenos Aires town of Salto. The incident was captured on film by numerous attendees at the Air Festival.

[kellyhound]

pilot and co-pilot G.V and N.S.

[Hogmann]

L29 was made by AeroVochody.
A Czechslovakian company. Not Russian

[tspang80]

Whoops

[durt]

Ya, not quite enough room for that

...altitude

[houseoftechno]

Not sure what they were trying to do there. Started out as a barrel roll, but they stopped the roll at 50% and kept it inverted at low altitude. Inverted stall ensued.

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[Roosta]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

The pilot and co-pilot of a plane died this Sunday when the plane they were crewing crashed during an air festival that was taking place in the Santa Fe town of Villa Cañás, Argentina, a few meters from where the public was watching the show, the police reported.

The two people died when the L29 Dolphin Military Training Jet plane, which they were crewing, crashed to the ground during the aerobatics show that was taking place at the Aeroclub in the Santa Fe town of Villa Cañás.

The Czechoslovakian jet aircraft, built for military training in aerial combat , "came down a few meters from where the public was witnessing the spectacle," the head of the Villa Cañás Fire Department, Horacio Pereyra, told Télam.

The official explained that the plane "made a low flight and when it finished crossing the runway at one of the runways, it made a half spin and then plummeted to the ground."

"The two pilots died instantly, and their bodies were trapped by the fire, because after the fall, the aircraft exploded and caught fire," added Pereyra.

The Fire Chief added that the owner of the plane "would be G.V", who piloted the aircraft "from Venado Tuerto" while his co-pilot and companion had a residence "in the Buenos Aires town of Salto."

"We are all very moved by this unfortunate tragedy," said Pereyra , who noted that now "the expert reports will begin to determine why the plane crashed to the ground."

The fall of the aircraft was filmed by numerous attendees at the Air Festival.

Situational awareness probably played the biggest part of this aircraft going in as there was a stagger in the barrel roll that I personally believe he was trying to execute which tells me that he lost it for a second or two n that's all it takes to go in.

Sad indeed !

The Aero L-29 Delfín (English: Dolphin, NATO reporting name: Maya) is a military jet trainer developed and manufactured by Czechoslovakian aviation manufacturer Aero Vodochody. It is the country's first locally designed and constructed jet aircraft, as well as likely being the biggest aircraft industrial programme to take place in any of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) countries except the Soviet Union.[2]

In response to a sizable requirement for a common jet-propelled trainer to be adopted across the diverse nations of the Eastern Bloc, Aero decided to embark upon their own design project with a view to suitably satisfying this demand. On 5 April 1959, an initial prototype, designated as the XL-29, performed its maiden flight. The L-29 was selected to become the standard trainer for the air forces of Warsaw Pact nations, for which it was delivered from the 1960s onwards. During the early 1970s, the type was succeeded in the principal trainer role by another Aero-built aircraft, the L-39 Albatros, heavily contributing to a decline in demand for the earlier L-29 and the end of its production during 1974.[3]

During the course of the programme, in excess of 3,000 L-29 Delfín trainers were produced. Of these, around 2,000 were reported to have been delivered to the Soviet Union, where it was used as the standard trainer for the Soviet Air Force.

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