Russian Aviation Bonus cache: Air Crash Site Mystery Cache
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Russian Aviation Bonus cache: Air Crash Site
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Geocache in memory of passengers and crew of an Il-18 airliner, which crashed on the 27th of April, 1974, killing all 118 aboard.
Civil aviation is considered to be the most reliable and safe way of transportation. But sometimes, very rarely, a flight results in accident. Accidents are mostly occur due to human mistakes and sometimes because of technical failures. In that flight the latter reason prevailed. Strong vibration and fire in the engine No. 4 began right after takeoff. The plane lost control on final, crashed and burned 3.5 km from the Pulkovo airport in a meadow next to the railroad in attempt of emergency landing. The crew performed the standard landing pattern, which delayed the flight. The destruction of the engine`s turbine disc of the third stage of the compressor. Loss of control has occurred because of an asymmetrical flap retraction, as traction of the right flap at the time of their release burned off. No. 4 engine vibration was noticed in the previous flight, but after checking it was decided to release the aircraft in flight. A week before the crash, the 'Fire in the engine' sensor triggered and the captain performed an emergency landing without following the approach chart, for which he received a dressing down from his superiors. Then the sensor reading was false.
To find this bonus cache you must find all the geocaches of my Russian Aviation series.
On the container of every cache you'll find a figure. You should order this figures in row, from A to F, according to the age of event, to which the specific cache is dedicated. A for oldest, F for newest. E.g.: if you have two caches, one to event which took place in 1900, and another in 1950, figure on first cache will stand for A, and on the second for B.
The events are:
-The year of the first take-off of the MiG-19;
-The year when the MiG-31 entered operational service;
-The year when the production of PZL-35 Wilga began;
-The year when Mozhaiskiy's plane was firstly tested;
-The year when V.P. Chkalov was born;
-The year when Kotelnikov's parachute was invented.
You can find this answers using the Internet or simply by thorough reading of Russian Aviation caches' listings :)The container is located at N59 47. ABC E030 20.DEF
Checksum of all the figures is 43. Do not confuse 6 with 9. In the bottom right corner of this figures there is a dot.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
ebbgf bs n ovepu
Treasures
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