MOSCOW, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A Russian fighter plane crashed while attempting to land on a Russan aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry reported Monday.
The pilot ejected and survived after his Sukhoi-33 plane, returning from a mission over Syria on Saturday, overran the runway on the carrier Admiral Kuznetsov on its second attempt to land. The Defense Ministry said the arresting cable, a thick wire crossing the runway which attaches to an arriving plane to slow it, snapped.