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he Ilyushin Il-28 (NATO reporting name: Beagle) is a jet bomber of the immediate postwar period that was originally manufactured for the Soviet Air Forces. It was the Soviet Union's first such aircraft to enter large-scale production. It was also licence-built in China as the Harbin H-5. Total production in the USSR was 6,316 aircraft, and over 319 H-5s were built. Only 187 examples of the HJ-5 training variant were manufactured. In the 1990s hundreds remained in service with various air forces over 50 years after the Il-28 first appeared. The only H-5s in service currently are approximately 80 aircraft which operate with the Korean People's Air Force. The Il-28 has the USAF/DoD reporting name "Type 27" and NATO reporting name "Beagle", while the Il-28U trainer variant has the USAF/DoD reporting name "Type 30" and NATO reporting name Mascot.



About crash
EN
The airplane started at a night training flight from the base. During the night-light illumination, the airplane at an altitude of 3000 meters flew into an extreme turbulent cloud. The airplane dropped into an unusual position. The bomber went down steeply. The pilot exceeded the permitted Il-28 overload, it was followed by the destruction first of the right wing and then of the whole airplane.


CZ
Letoun odstartoval k nocnímu cvicnému letu z domovské základny Prerov. Behem provádení osvetlení cíle v noci vlétl letoun ve výšce 3000 metru do extrémní turbulentní oblacnosti. Kapitán letounu, petadvacetiletý pilot 3.trídy kpt.Stanislav Havlícek, techniku pilotáže v noci a v mraku nezvládl a s letounem spadl do nezvyklé polohy. Bombardér prešel do prudkého klesání. Po vylétnutí z mraku ve snaze zabránit nárazu letounu do zeme prudce vybral. Prekrocil však povolený násobek pretížení letounu Il-28. Došlo k destrukci nejprve pravého krídla a následne celého letounu.

Web Address for Related Web Sites: [Web Link] Date of Crash: 08/26/1958 Aircraft Model: Ilyushin Il-28 Military or Civilian: Military Tail Number: 6929 Cause of Crash: error of piloting, bad weather

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