"2 air force pilots have died in the carrier test" misreading reports | pilot sacrifices | test _ an aircraft carrier news

People's daily online, September 7 (yanjiaqi) recently, many media headlines saying "two air force pilots died in the carrier test". People's daily reporter today interviewed military sources confirmed that the message was read by mistake, 2 UN does not perform carrier testing task, nor the implementation of ship-borne fighter pilots of the task.

Recently, this reporter found a lot of people on Twitter in the reprint of "two air force pilots died in the carrier test" messages, participate in forwarding account there are a number of reputable media corporate Twitter accounts. Searches Internet news reporters, also found that many news reports on this title.

Trace source of these reports, found that the originating from August 27, Xinhua, entitled "Chairman XI Jinping signed a decree giving 1 unit, 1 individual award honors" reports. The main contents of the report are the CMC awarded the air force flight test team, "hero flight test group" honorary title, awarded the Navy carrier aviation troop Vice long Deming au "carrier fighter hero pilots" honors. In this article reported in the, has such a words:"command pointed out that, has long, the Brigade insisted to development national aviation career and construction powerful air power for mission, education guide test pilot put personal ideal into strong army practice, soldiers always keep has exuberant fight; active exploration theory, and participation design, and test flight, successfully completed the test flight task, fill China Aviation field 13 items blank; consciously boycott temptation, and calm face death, repeatedly challenge equipment and physiological limit, has 2 name comrade gave life. In particular for the successful completion of -15 aircraft in Liaoning destroyer successfully block on ski-jump takeoff and landing mission to make a significant contribution. " In fact, we read the Xinhua reports, it is easy to find, the report simply said the Brigade during the long flight there were 2 people gave their lives, does not point out the two dead are dying in a carrier test, did not reveal any information about the two men was killed when carrying out f-15 carrier aircraft. Is that such a sentence is not misleading, the first time in more than a week later, on September 6 was a site tampering with headers, to "officially announced that two air force pilots died in the carrier test" to spread again, the spread for the title, followed by further fermentation on Twitter, creating difficulties for misunderstanding.

Many military source told reporters that the Brigade has received the honorary title of the flight test pilots participated in the carrier-ship, but at the expense of two men killed in the previous test flights, nobody dies in the carrier-ship.

Flight test is a high-risk occupation, known as "for many years faced with death". So that one set of data to the aviation industry: a new plane from the first flight to stereotypes, flights averaged 17 minutes a failure each type before the modern fighter planes, hundreds of subjects and thousands of flight testing to be completed, along with all the fault happened in thousands, even for a world of "air power", and every new airplane test flight OK, have to slam a few frames.

Our test pilot of sacrifice does not pretend. "Generations of pilots is brave and fearless, dare to bright sword, in countless flights, encounter danger in the air more than 3,000 times, successful disposal nearly crash a major informant more than 400 cases, retrieve direct economic losses of tens of billions of dollars for the country. "" In 61 test flight history, there have been 27 blood sprinkled the sky air force test pilot. "Media 2013 has publicly reported Chinese test pilot sacrifices.

(Edit: SN123)
13:19 on September 07, 2014
People's daily online