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The Tu-144 was later used by the Soviet space program to train pilots of the Buran spacecraft, and by NASA for supersonic research until 1999. The Tu-144 made its final flight on 26 June 1999 and surviving aircraft were put on display in Russia, the former Soviet Union and Germany, or into storage.
4 cze 1973 · Soviet TU-144 supersonic jetliner explodes and crashes during demonstration flight at Paris Air Show on June 3 killing approximately 14 persons, including crew members; wreckage falls on town...
View of the wreckage of the Tupolev 144 that crashed during the Paris air show in 1973, killing all six on board and eight on the ground, and destroying 15 houses in Goussainville, France. A...
16 cze 2017 · The world's first supersonic airliner -- the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 -- first appeared at Paris in 1973. During the Tu-144's performance, hundreds of thousands of spectators watched as the...
2 cze 2023 · People walk among the fallen wreckage of the Tu-144 that crashed onto Goussainville. The girl’s sister, Martine, was killed in front of Marianne by falling debris, while their cousin suffered...
4 kwi 2023 · During the dive, the Tu-144 broke up towards the bottom as pilot Mikhail Kozlov attempted to recover the aircraft. The ensuing accident killed all six Soviet crew members and two people on...
24 sty 2024 · All 100 passengers and nine crew members on board, as well as four people on the ground, were killed. It was the first and thankfully only fatal crash of the Concorde Supersonic Transport (SST)...
