Cosmonaut Boris Volynov revealed the version of the death of the first person who flew into space, Yuri Gagarin. Twice the Hero of the Soviet Union, the last now living term of the first cosmonaut detachment told in a conversation with RIA Novosti.
According to him, it is not possible to know exactly what happened that day. However, perhaps the cause of the tragedy could be the collision of the Gagarin aircraft with meteozond. Volynov noted that the soldier could launch a meteorological pilot, in which the pilot crashed at high speed. At the same time, he stressed that it is impossible to see the ball at high speed in advance.
Previously, the deughter of the pilot, CEO of the State Museum-Reserve “Moscow Kremlin” Elena Gagarin said that the risks of the first cosmonaut perished in space were more than 50 percent. Such a point of view, according to her, adhered to the chief designer of rocket and space technology Sergey Korolev.
Yuri Gagarin died on March 27, 1968 during the MiG-15UTI Training Flight in the Vladimir Region. The exact cause of the occurrence is not installed.