In the Air Force (Air Force), the United States has revealed the circumstances and the cause of the F-22 Raptor fighter fighter accident that occurred in May 2020 in Florida, reports The Drive.
The publication writes that the plane crashed due to the “wrong” washing, which influenced the operation of the sensors responsible for managing the fighter. It is noted that there are several warnings that do not correspond to the real behavior of the aircraft in the panel of the pilot instruments.
In front of the incident, the fighter in the air turned upside down with a belly, and the instrument indicators of the speed and height of the flight did not correspond to reality, as a result of which the pilot F-22 Raptor decided to the catapulting.
As a result of the incident, the pilot survived, and the plane entered the corkscrew, fell and burned down.
In December 2019, the Russian fighter of the fifth generation SU-57 crashed in a taiga 111 kilometers from the Dance airfield in the Khabarovsk Territory. The pilot of the aircraft catapulted.