"Two Air Force pilot killed in aircraft testing," reported the Department of misreading
At 13:19 on September 7, 2014 Source: People - Military Channel mobile phone to read news
People, Beijing, September 7 (by Yan Jiaqi) Recently, a number of media headlines said, "The two Air Force pilots killed in aircraft testing." People with reporters today, military sources confirmed that the news department misread, two killed were not perform carrier testing tasks, but also non-executive carrier-based fighter pilot flight tasks.
Recently, the reporter found that many people on the microblogging reproduced in "two air force pilots killed in aircraft test" message, forwarding account to participate in the corporate media are a number of well-known microblogging account. Search Internet news reporter also found a lot of this as the title of the news reports.
Traced the source of these reports and found that the message originated from August 27 Xinhua titled "CMC Chairman Xi Jinping signed an order to a unit, an individual awarded the honorary title of" reports. The main contents of the report of the Central Military Commission awarded an Air Force flight brigade "Hero flight brigade" Honor, awarded a Navy carrier-based air force deputy Deming Union troops long "aircraft carrier fighter test pilot hero," the honorary title. In this report, there is this passage: "command noted that for a long time, which adhere to the development of national aviation brigade and the construction of a powerful air forces for the mission to educate and guide test pilot personal ideals into practice a strong army, officers and soldiers always maintained strong fighting spirit; actively explore the theory involved in the design, test flight, the successful completion of the test flight mission, to fill the aviation field of 13 blank; consciously resist the temptation, frankly facing death, several challenges equipment and physiological limits, there are two comrades lost their lives, especially for the successful completion of the J-15 aircraft successfully implemented in Liaoning ship stop landing and flying leaps slippery task to make a significant contribution. "In fact, we carefully read the Xinhua report, it's easy to find the reported only that the brigade in the long-term test flight had two people lost their lives, and did not point out that two deceased person is given their lives in aircraft testing, nor reveal any information about the two ships in the implementation of the J-15 When the carrier aircraft killed mean task. Is such a sentence is not misleading, then, after a lapse of more than one week later, on September 6 is a website tampered heading to the "official announcement of two Air Force test pilots died in the aircraft" as the title to spread again, the proliferation of , followed by further fermentation in the microblogging, causing users misunderstanding.
Many military source told reporters, get the honorary title of this pilot test unit has participated carrier aircraft flight, but they sacrifice was killed in the previous test, no one died in the carrier-based aircraft in flight.
Flight is a high-risk occupation, known as the "long with death blows." Aviation community has such a set of data: an new machine from the flight to stereotypes, average 17 minutes to test a fault; former fighters fielded every type of modern, subject to the completion of hundreds of thousands of sorties flight test, with Thousands of various types of failure; even the world, "air power", each successful test flight of a new aircraft, but also fell on several planes.
Our test pilots for the sacrifice does not mince words. "Generation test pilot brave, dare Sword in numerous flight, suffered several aerial danger 3000, the successful handling of almost major plane crash more than 400 special circumstances, direct economic losses for the country billions of dollars. "" In the 61 years of flight history, there have been 27 Air Force test pilot to die in the sky. "media in 2013 had publicly reported the case of a test pilot sacrifice.