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A Chinese surveillance aircraft believed to be derived from the Ilyushin Il-76 crashed in China on 3 June, killing all 40 people on board. Beijing officially identified the aircraft only as an unknown military transport, but Chinese newspapers report it is an airborne early warning aircraft called the KJ-2000, which has been developed locally over the past few years using the Il-76 airframe. The aircraft was on a surveillance or testing mission when it crashed in a rural area in eastern China, killing 35 mission crew members and five cockpit crew members. It is believed that there are at least two other KJ-2000 proto*types in existence, equipped with radar and sensors developed by a research institute based in Nanjing.

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highsea

35 mission crew and 5 cockpit crew on an AWACS???

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Officer of Engineers

It was more than likely a transport but more important than how many were lost is who was lost. A lot of project leaders were on that flight.

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Jay

Samething happened in India in 1999, result 8 scientists died and the project was shelved for some time.

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highsea

Colonel, do you know what they were up to?

Normal crew complement for an A-50 is 15- 4 flight crew and 10-11 mission crew, so it seems more likely that it was a transport plane rather than an AWACS.

Officer of Engineers

Speculation is that this was an initial flag waving test flight with a whole bunch of egg heads from Lab 14 and maybe even Lab 38. They've lost alot of senior people.

highsea

Oops.

A good example why the dem/eval process should never be inter-mixed with dog and pony shows...

xinhui

The plane that crashed was a modify y-8 with a blanace beam no a IL-76 Mod. Photos of the crash confirmed it.

The only way a Y-8 can take on that type of external mod is using FBW, and we all know how tricky FBW can be.

xinhui

Under the leadership of new Geneal Cao, the COSTIND is finally making a different in all over R&D, especally in the area of radar. There is a sense of let's hurry as we are almost there. Notice how fact they put new version of Y-8 Mods into the sky, they currently testing 5 different prototypes witin a single year. It is amazing, they just mod the hack out of the Y-8 and took them for test spin with full equippment on broad. They paid for their carlessness with their lives.

Aziqbal

Its a test plane it crashed just like mahy of them do no big deal only a superpower can absorb such things and continue the programme and try and avoid such things from happening.

master_fx

ops multi-post........

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master_fx

is not KJ-2000 is y-8 blanace beam.... but dont worry china has another one, however the great loss are those 50 well trained technicians and engineers.......