The story of a Soviet pilot fled to the United States on a secret fighter

2017-08-27 13:50

The story of a Soviet pilot fled to the United States on a secret fighter
Air force pilot of the USSR, fled the country on the state of the art MiG-25.

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This story happened in 1976, reports Rus.Media. Air force pilot of the USSR, fled the country on the state of the art MiG-25. He landed in Japan, and then asked for asylum in the United States. In the Soviet Union he is survived by his wife and children, whom he never saw.

1. He decided to flee during a training flight

The plane of Viktor Belenko disappeared from radar unexpectedly. On the ground everyone thought he dived straight into the sea. Later, it became clear that the pilot managed to deceive the radar by flights at low altitude.

2. The Soviet military got in touch with the Japanese air force in order to catch the fugitive, but as soon as the pilot began to pursue it again disappeared from the radar

He sat down on one of the civil airports, asking to hide it.

3. The Soviet authorities did not want to believe that the guy ran away

In the USSR believed that Belenko was lost and made an emergency landing, and the Japanese took him prisoner. However, conducting an experiment, our military understood that Dmitry used an elaborate scheme to avoid radar. Only then everyone realized that he was running specifically.

4. The Soviet Union, however, presented this fact as if the pilot made an emergency landing in Japan

On television was shown to the family of the pilot who was ordered to deny all the rumors.

5. A special place in history is the plane

It was the most modern and secret Soviet aircraft. All aerodromes, where was this plane was guarded by special forces.

6. Moscow demanded that Tokyo immediately return the aircraft and the pilot

However, while negotiations were under way, the MiG-25 was disassembled and shipped to the USA where he studied and brought back. Home the aircraft returned only two years later.

7. Belenko was a pilot of the highest class, but very ambitious

Some believe that Belenko was recruited by the US long before the escape and actually had to land on a U.S. military base, but at the last moment he got scared that I shot him and decided to land on civilian airport.

8. His behavior was also strange

It is known that the transfer to the far East Dmitry asked himself. Belenko often went to one little town in the neighborhood, but none of my family told me what he was doing. Always taught English. In the United States, the pilot received citizenship, taught at the Military Academy, becoming famous. It is not known whether he is alive still.