FFS, when will this worlds death and carnage stop?
I'm happy raise a toast to our 6 fellow comrades killed for doing nothing more than relaxing part way through a gruelling schedule. R.I.P boys.
To lighten up an immensely painful occurrence I am going to travel back a few hours in the lives these pilots before their final moments.
I'm picturing them unwinding in the hotel bar. Knocking back a few shots of Smirnoff in between mouthfuls of dressed herring, followed by a couple more shots of Smirnoff, and recapping the days work. Swapping war stories about flying the illustrious An-124, a behemoth of the sky, landing at max weight and praying that the airports PCN will cope! Laughing about their days on the AN-12, and how the poor bastard Engineer would sit in the gun turret and how locals would sometimes call the Firies after seeing 4 trails of burnt kero as she left her signature trail in the sky post takeoff!
As the night draws on the lads start to throw in some 'girl' stories, you know 'blondes vs brunettes, tall vs short, slim vs cuddly', east vs west. Indeed, Russian pilots love their women, food, Vodka and planes.
6 Crew doing their thing, cut short by a violent, psychopathic disintegrating world.
R.I.P
I'm happy raise a toast to our 6 fellow comrades killed for doing nothing more than relaxing part way through a gruelling schedule. R.I.P boys.
To lighten up an immensely painful occurrence I am going to travel back a few hours in the lives these pilots before their final moments.
I'm picturing them unwinding in the hotel bar. Knocking back a few shots of Smirnoff in between mouthfuls of dressed herring, followed by a couple more shots of Smirnoff, and recapping the days work. Swapping war stories about flying the illustrious An-124, a behemoth of the sky, landing at max weight and praying that the airports PCN will cope! Laughing about their days on the AN-12, and how the poor bastard Engineer would sit in the gun turret and how locals would sometimes call the Firies after seeing 4 trails of burnt kero as she left her signature trail in the sky post takeoff!
As the night draws on the lads start to throw in some 'girl' stories, you know 'blondes vs brunettes, tall vs short, slim vs cuddly', east vs west. Indeed, Russian pilots love their women, food, Vodka and planes.
6 Crew doing their thing, cut short by a violent, psychopathic disintegrating world.
R.I.P