Russian media outlets reported a fighter jet fell into the Pacific Ocean while on a training mission.
Russia's military on Tuesday reported a MiG-31 fighter jet crashed into the Pacific Ocean on the southeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula.four Russian military jets were tracked flying in airspace
near Alaska on Monday. Only the Bering Sea separates Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula from Alaska, but it is not known if the two incidents are related. According to a Tuesday story in the Associated Press,"The Russian air force has suffered a string of crashes that some observers have attributed to a higher number of flights amid the fighting in Ukraine and tensions with the West." Another in the"string of crashes" happened in April when Meduza, an independent Russian news outlet, reported another MiG-31 crashed in the Murmansk region of Russia in April after one of the engines caught fire.
A Russian Mikoyan MIG-31 jet fighter aircraft is presented at the air show during the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon, on July 20, 2021, in Zhukovskiy, outside of Moscow, Russia. Russia's military said Tuesday a MiG-31 crashed during a training mission.Kremlin-backed media outlets reported the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy fleet said the MiG-31 was on a training mission at the time of its crash into the Kamchatka Peninsula's Avacha Bay.
The RIA Novosti news agency wrote on Telegram that the fighter jet wasn't carrying weapons. The press service added that search and rescue forces of the Pacific Fleet had been dispatched to the accident site.
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