Second Russian fighter jet deployed in Syria ‘crashes into the Mediterranean while attempting to land on aircraft carrier’
A SECOND Russian jet has crashed into the Mediterranean as it attempted to land on aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, it is claimed.
It marks the second time in the past few weeks one of Putin's planes deployed in Syria has crashed during a bungled landing.
It was attempting to land for the second time on the aircraft carrier that travelled through the English Channel earlier this year, reported.
The pilot ejected before the plane hit the water and was later picked up by a Russian search and rescue helicopter, the website stated.
It comes as it was recently claimed the aircraft carrier was deemed to be floating failure.
Satellite imagery published in Jane’s Defence Weekly shows eight Russian Su-33 aircraft and one MiG-29 jet parked the Kremlin’s Humaymin air base in Latakia province, western Syria.
These aircraft are usually take off from the deck of the ageing aircraft carrier which built in 1982 but had a re-fit in 2015.
Igor Sutyagin, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute said the lack of a catapult system to launch the planes has hampered the ability of pilots to operate at sea.
This has forced them to carry fewer weapons and less fuel when they take-off from a specially built ramp.
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