Article: Russian air force general crash-lands his fighter jet, ejects to safety


AP Worldstream
01-28-2004
Dateline: MOSCOW
A Russian air force general set his fighter jet on course for a gear-up landing and ejected to safety when the aircraft touched down, officials said Wednesday.

Lt.-Gen. Yuri Komissarov, in charge of an air force group in the southern Rostov region landed his MiG-29 on its belly after the landing gear failed, air force spokesman Col. Alexander Drobyshevsky said, ...

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