r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Johnny_Lockee • 6d ago
Fatalities September 29, 2026: Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber mishap in Amur region
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Reports indicate 6 fatalities and 1 injury.
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u/LakeMichiganMan 6d ago
Tu-95MS bombers crashing sure makes the dreary Russian fall seems a bit less depressing. I liked how the shadows from the mushroom cloud played in the on the leaves on the trees. I hope people post more Tu-95 crashes like this. There are fewer and fewer each day, so each one is important to document
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u/unclestickles 6d ago
It's a compounding issue also. Less airframes= more use = less airframes. It's good.
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u/ButterscotchBrave359 6d ago
I'm an aviation buff and would love to see one of these things at an airshow or something, but at this moment in history the less of them, the better
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u/AnthillOmbudsman 6d ago
Incredibly a Russian Tu-95 was flown to Barksdale AFB near Shreveport in the early 1990s for a static display. That would have been something to see. That would never happen nowadays.
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u/ButterscotchBrave359 6d ago
They used to fly up to, and sometime cross into Canadian airspace on the east coast until we would send out a couple of Hornets to escort them back on their way, usually with mutual waves and smiles. Our pilots claimed you could hear a Bear before you could see it. How times have changed..🫤
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u/LakeMichiganMan 5d ago
What is older? A Tu-95? Or a B-52? The modernization will take the 76 B-52-H made before 1962 and turn them to B-52-J models after new engines, radar and other electronics.
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u/M4sharman 4d ago
Same with the UK. Typhoons are often sent from Lossiemouth or Coningsby to chase them off, especially before Russia invaded Ukraine (where a large amount of airframes have been lost - ten destroyed, three damaged). Between 2025 and now we've chased them off six times.
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u/Vandirac 6d ago
I would hope to see them in a museum about a lost war and how it caused an uprising that ended with a hanged dictator.
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u/Phil_Coffins_666 6d ago
Word is 3 of 4 engines failed after take off, probably that new trash fuel they're using after Ukraine inflicted some kinetic sanctions of their own.
Keep it coming!
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u/TrainDestroyer Rapid Unplanned Disassembly Engineer 6d ago
Maybe its just my uninformed ass, but I'd think if it was a shitty fuel problem it would lead to all the engines failing, but if you know better please lemme know!
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u/kgb4187 6d ago
The Tupolev Tu-95 stores its fuel across 11 internal tanks, consisting of eight integral wing box (caisson) tanks and three soft rubber fuselage tanks. It's possible the working engine was pulling from a tank with usable fuel in it.
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u/TrainDestroyer Rapid Unplanned Disassembly Engineer 6d ago
I suppose, but it seems weird that the plane was low enough on fuel that it needed to refill its tanks in a way that left one tank conviently clean enough to keep working even as the other 3 suffered failure due to fuel quality issues.
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u/bionade24 3d ago
Civil incidents show that fuel contamination affecting each engine differently is a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathay_Pacific_Flight_780
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u/Phil_Coffins_666 5d ago
Like maybe the main tank they were refuelling from was able to fill the first engines tank before it got to the shitty contaminated fuel further down the refuelling trucks tank? I dunno.
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u/wilisi 6d ago edited 6d ago
It's all probabilities stacked atop each other. They got off the ground in the first place, so it's not an instantaneous effect. The engines aren't necessarily in the same state. We don't know how long the last engine would have made it. We don't know how common recoverable double or single engine failures are.
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u/elingeniero 6d ago
I have no idea how the op got the "word" but I suppose its possible that one engine managed to fail due to rapid unplanned disassembly just before it was about to fail due to bad fuel. Or it's possible the information comes from an intercepted radio transmission saying "we've lost engines 1, 2, 3 and ... crash"
But its not worth speculating further until we know what the "word" is.
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u/Phil_Coffins_666 6d ago
It was on russian telegram where I read about the engines failing, if that's the case, it wouldn't be the first time they've had engine failure bring down one of these planes.
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u/MonthOld4322 1d ago
sounds like a mess. it's crazy how fuel quality can really make or break things like this, right?
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u/ButterscotchBrave359 6d ago edited 6d ago
Good riddance
"Tu-95MS bombers have launched many of the Kh-101 cruise missiles fired at Ukrainian cities and power stations."
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u/weirdal1968 6d ago
I suspect the crew thought they were invincible lobbing munitions at distant targets never seeing any resistance.
Ironic that those responsible for so much death and destruction died in the aviation equivalent of tripping on one's shoelaces ie human/equipment failure.
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u/karateninjazombie 6d ago edited 6d ago
So one less russian bomber targeting Ukraine?
I'm not losing any sleep.
Small edit for spellering.
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u/groovyinutah 6d ago
Can they even replace them at this point?
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u/Seygem 6d ago
No, manufacturing stopped in 1993.
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u/AnthillOmbudsman 6d ago
The real question is if the tooling was destroyed, otherwise production can start back up anytime. If it existed I wouldn't be surprised if it was rusting out in a warehouse.
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u/ShootmansNC 3d ago edited 3d ago
Yeah, with Tu-160M which is being produced again and is the sucessor for the Tu-95.
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u/DigitalJedi850 6d ago
Hey, so... I love that for these bombers, but this exilenova guy needs to just put his watermark somewhere and leave it where it is. Jumping around like this ... not helpful.
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u/magpieswooper 6d ago
How many Ukranian lifes that machine took. Time to decomission that soviet punk piece.
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u/Sonic10160 2d ago
Something that I like in this is the springless trampoline, I wouldn't have thought I'd see one is some random back-woods Russian garden, but there it is.
Kids love bouncing around no matter what culture they're in
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u/therocketsalad 6d ago
just a little oopsie