Massive Tu-95 explosion during take-off video
 

All this happened June 2015. A video has been released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtqYAv5xyTg

Engine fire was the cause behind the accident

Wow that's an impressive uncontained engine failure if there ever was one :(

Hardly! That was something far far more violent and dynamic than a mere engine fire.

Blimey, at that height did they get out? as the explosion seems to have been on the outer wing and you lose sight of the fuselage as it spins around the back of the fireball. :(

2 died, (initial report was 1 dead, 1 injured, but that was updated), 3 got out OK.

From a Russian forum:

looks like there was something flashing by the runway - maybe an aerial or a hut or something - that he clipped as he spun off

I am with Wageslave at post#3.

I would believe it if the Russians were to admit that an explosive device had detonated.

Failing that I would guess at a fuel-air explosion. That might have been a secondary result of an engine break-up of course.

It is not clear to me if the explosion or the departure from the runway came first.

If runway departure came first, the wing (and therefore fuel tanks or fuel lines) might have been disrupted by the collapse of the port undercarriage. However the wings can be seen (at 27 secs elapsed) in the light of the explosion to be absolutely level.

The port wing is completely broken, up not backwards, by the explosion. It is almost inconceivable that the aircraft design would allow a powerplant failure to have that effect.

Wow thats a big one...

Looks like the left wing completely collapses as the aircraft starts to twist to the left. Not sure if just due to massive and sudden differential thrust, or if other problems adding to it, such as undercarriage problem or wing digging in

hmm seems the egg came before the chicken ??

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...psxhhdpth8.png

Looks like an uncontained engine failure to me. There are now quite a few famous examples of hp parts vacating via fuel tanks but I'd wager few of them were carrying more fuel than this little bear on her 8000nm foray into the woods.

Before entering service in 1956, Soviets designing the engine and fuel tanks might have taken a similar view to that of English Electric on Vmcg just 10 years before.



Afternoon Mr B! :ok:

Two explosions
 

If you pause the video at 26 seconds and then set replay speed to 0.25 and continue playing there is an initial explosion in the area of the number two engine which rapidly decays and then a secondary, much larger explosion. Up until the second explosion the aircraft appears S&L.

I thought it looked like an uncontainable failure rupturing the tank and causing the explosion, you see something fly off / up prior to the explosion. I thought it looked like it was coming from the outboard engine area.

Those engines are some of the most reliable they have mainly due to the low internal operating temps. ITT 230 degs in the cruise.

Looks like an uncontained engine failure on one of the engine on the left wing, which penetrated the left wing fuel tank. Not much the crew could do with that, other than hang on or eject. Sad RIP to the guys who lost their lives...