+MigBuster Posted June 17, 2013 Posted June 17, 2013 Yuri Gagarin air crash details emerge New details have emerged about the air crash on 27 March 1968 that killed Yuri Gagarin - the first man in space. Fellow cosmonaut Alexey Leonov claims an "unauthorised" plane flew too close to Gagarin's fighter jet, sending it into a spin. Gagarin and his flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died when their MiG-15 went down near the town of Novoselovo, about 90km from Moscow. ............... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22940068
+Gepard Posted June 17, 2013 Posted June 17, 2013 This is not really new. Leonow told this story since years. I have read it in two books and saw some years ago one interview were he told the story that two Su-7 caused Gagarins MiG crash.
+CrazyhorseB34 Posted June 19, 2013 Posted June 19, 2013 I heard he got caught in the jet wash of the Su-15 prototype that was conducting secret tests in the region that he was flying in.
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