Igor Myantsiuk

They were already destroyed by debris Y-2". May Day demonstration was in full swing, when Nikita Khrushchev at 10:45 am directly at the mausoleum was reported that near Sverdlovsk missiles "ground-to-air" shot down an American reconnaissance plane. Khrushchev ordered that "should bring down missiles," scared the whole world missiles – anti-aircraft and strategic. Y-2" should have been shot down and knock it rocket men, and the first rocket. Feat and death of the pilots of fighter planes in this logic is absolutely fit. Safronov died and miraculously landed on the remains of fuel Mentyukova carefully "forgotten". So who also knocked Y-2"? During the trial, permitted a short interview with the father of Powers managed to whisper: "Do not believe that I was hit by a missile. Shot down the plane – I saw him.

" At trial, downed pilot told more succinctly: "I heard an explosion and saw before a flash of orange flame, and the plane began to fall. " Anti-aircraft gunners fired after him, but what he saw Powers in front of him as the "orange flames" was nothing more than "Slam" or "explosion." And we are witnesses of this force the "explosion" of which flew in pieces of glass all houses within a radius of 2 km., convinced that "kick" that led to the death of a spy plane, was Francis and Y-2 still on the top-secret high-altitude interceptor" T-3 "and made him captain Igor Myantsiuk. A Novosibirsk, a "boom" from T-3, called the legendary title "Pendel" Francis Powers End 1960goda.