Russian military prosecutors are hunting the fighter jet pilot who buzzed highway traffic. A dashboard camera captured this video of a low level flying Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer fighter jet zooming over traffic last week.
The low-level buzz on the highway between Volgograd and Kalach-on-the-Don has gone viral, appeared on Russian television – and is likely to have landed the pilot in a whole world of trouble. According to the Interfax news agency, Russian authorities are combing through military airfields logs to identify the pilot.
An AFP news agency report quoted prominent Russian test pilot Anatoly Kvochur as saying that the stunt was “normal training” for the Su-24, which is designed for ultra low altitude strike duties.
“The more pilots we have like this, the better,” the report cites him as saying. Despite that endorsement, there may be one less pilot in the air for a while once the authorities catch up with him.
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