Z-channels Sound The Alarm Over Russian "airplane Crash"
- 3.04.2026, 17:38
The pilots are exhausted and falling asleep on the fly.
The Russian military aviation seems to have started a bad period: over the last four days the country lost four planes at once.
So, on Tuesday, March 31, a Su-34 bomber of the Russian Armed Forces was lost in occupied Crimea. Official agencies and state media did not report this - the information appeared in Z-channels. There claimed that the plane was not shot down, but the cause of the crash was not specified. It is known that the pilot was killed and the navigator was injured, writes "Dialogue".
On the same day in the evening, a military transport An-26 crashed in Crimea. There were 29 people on board, including General Alexander Otroshchenko, commander of the aviation of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Armed Forces. There are no survivors. The causes of the crash have also not been officially named.
At the same time, Z-blogger Egor Guzenko ("Thirteen") questioned the version about a technical malfunction. In his opinion, both planes could have been hit by Ukrainian drones. He noted that the versions of events contradict each other and the truth, according to him, is being hidden.
On April 2, the AFU's Unmanned Systems Force attacked a Russian airbase in Crimea. As a result of the drone strike, an An-72 patrol plane was damaged.
And on April 3, a Su-30 fighter jet crashed in the same region. The incident was confirmed by the Russian Defense Ministry, saying that the plane crashed during a training flight.
By these events, Russian Z-blogger Ilya Tumanov (Fighterbomber) previously complained about the pilots' severe overload. According to him, pilots are now logging more than 100 hours a month, which used to be the norm for a year. Because of this, he claims, labor and rest standards are violated, and in the case of single-seat fighters, there are cases of pilots falling asleep in flight. Sometimes, he said, other crews even have to fire cannons to wake up their colleagues.
Despite its numerical advantage, Russian aviation has failed to achieve complete air supremacy in the war against Ukraine and mainly operates over Russian territory and occupied territories.