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| Date: | Tuesday 12 May 1970 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  MiG-25P |
| Owner/operator: | Soviet Air Force |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Gorki (now Nizhny Novgorod) -
 Russia
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
MiG-25P crashed during test flight near Gorki (now Nizhny Novgorod). Test pilot Major Boris Alekseevich Varenov was killed.
Sources:
http://testpilot.ru/russia/mikoyan/mig/25/mig25_crash.htm
http://testpilot.ru/base/2013/05/varenov-b-a/
http://www.bvvaul.ru/profiles/3921.php
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-Apr-2017 08:05 | JF | Added |
| 06-Jan-2019 08:49 | JF | Updated [Narrative, ] |
| 17-May-2021 23:28 | JF | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Narrative, ] |
| 18-May-2021 09:52 | JF | Updated [Location, Narrative, ] |
| 31-May-2021 23:35 | JF | Updated [Narrative, ] |
| 06-Jun-2021 18:02 | JF | Updated [Aircraft type, ] |
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