Flightline: 30/TBD

"user314" (user314) 08/19/2020 at 11:00 • Filed to: flightline, Planelopnik, planelopnik history, Russia, USSR, Chernobyl, not great, not terrible

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On April 26, 1986, an accident rocked the No. 4 reactor at the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in the Ukrainian SSR, beginning the worst !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in human history. In the aftermath of the explosion, thousands of aircraft and other vehicles were used to survey the area, then to remove radioactive debris. As a result, these vehicles (not to mention the people operating them...) became radioactive themselves, and were left behind in the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

Despite being guarded, and located in an area expected to be uninhabitable for 300 to 30,000 years, numerous vehicles have been picked over, and a large number have disappeared entirely, with Russia and the Ukraine both denying responsibility .

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > user314 08/19/2020 at 11:10

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A bunch of Mi-6 Hook. Wow.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > user314 08/19/2020 at 11:18

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“ As a result, these vehicles (not to mention the people operating them...) became radioactive themselves, and were left behind in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone .”

They didn't leave the people behind, or there would be more skeletons!  They sent them off to the gulag.  No doubt a special lead lined gulag to contain their radioactivity.  

atfsgeoff > Snuze: Needs another Swede 08/19/2020 at 11:32

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All the human remains are in lead-lined coffins entombed within concrete

Milky > user314 08/19/2020 at 11:46

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Apparently they scraped all the cool stuff.

now:

Snuze: Needs another Swede > atfsgeoff 08/19/2020 at 12:00

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I know, I was being facetious.  Was looking for an excuse to post offtogulag.gif but couldn't get the dang thing to load!

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > user314 08/19/2020 at 12:39

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I used to see all kinds of abandoned Ruskie equipment in Afghanistan, they got goats living in them now. Those Mi-6s have bigger blades than a CH-53 I think, I remember looking at one.