{"id":13272597,"date":"2026-08-17T16:53:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/tupolev-tu-144-concordski-paris-crash-1973\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:53:38","slug":"tupolev-tu-144-concordski-paris-crash-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/tupolev-tu-144-concordski-paris-crash-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Concordski: The Day the Soviet SST Fell"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<p>The West called it &ldquo;Concordski,&rdquo; half in mockery. It flew two months before Concorde, looked almost identical, and carried the pride of the entire Soviet aerospace industry on its needle nose. On 3 June 1973, in front of a quarter of a million people at the Paris Air Show, it came apart in the sky.<\/p>\r\n<p>The story of the Tupolev Tu-144 is the story of a race &mdash; and of a pilot who could not bear to come second.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Soviet supersonic dream<\/h2>\r\n<p>The Tu-144 was the world&rsquo;s first supersonic airliner to fly, lifting off on 31 December 1968, just ahead of the Anglo-French Concorde. It was a genuine technical triumph &mdash; a Mach-2 delta with retractable &ldquo;moustache&rdquo; canards that popped out for low-speed control. It was also, from the start, a Cold War trophy as much as an aircraft.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=2023209490  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:GtFu.cd2e\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/tu-144-concorde-sinsheim.jpg\" alt=\"A Tupolev Tu-144 and a Concorde displayed side by side at the Sinsheim museum\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The rivals, side by side today at Sinsheim: the Soviet Tu-144 (left) and the Anglo-French Concorde. The resemblance earned the Tu-144 its nickname, &ldquo;Concordski.&rdquo;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>By June 1973 the Tu-144 and Concorde were both starring at Le Bourget, and the rivalry was fierce. The Soviet test pilot, Mikhail Kozlov, made no secret of his confidence.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;Just wait until you see us fly. Then you&rsquo;ll see something.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Mikhail Kozlov<\/strong> &mdash; Tu-144 test pilot, before the display<\/div><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;border-radius:8px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.8\"><li><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Tupolev Tu-144S, registration CCCP-77102 (2nd production airframe)<\/li><li><strong>Date:<\/strong> 3 June 1973, Paris Air Show, Le Bourget<\/li><li><strong>First SST to fly:<\/strong> 31 December 1968, two months before Concorde<\/li><li><strong>The crash:<\/strong> stalled after a steep climb, broke up while pulling out of the dive<\/li><li><strong>Toll:<\/strong> all 6 crew and 8 people on the ground killed; 15 houses destroyed<\/li><li><strong>Cause:<\/strong> never conclusively determined<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Six minutes, then silence<\/h2>\r\n<p>Concorde flew its demonstration first that day &mdash; a restrained, almost dull routine. Then the Tu-144 took the stage. After a high-speed pass with its gear and canards out, it stood on its tail under full power and climbed hard. Below 2,000 feet it stalled and dropped into a steep dive. As Kozlov fought to pull out near 400 feet, the left wing tore away, the jet snap-rolled inverted, the fuselage broke, and fuel ignited.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dPQlbhgD4YQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>The Tu-144 fell in flames on the town of Goussainville, eight kilometres away, destroying homes and killing three children among the eight victims on the ground. Legendary display pilot Bob Hoover, watching from Le Bourget, had seen it coming.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;When the Tu-144 pilot performed the same manoeuvre he pulled the nose up so steeply I didn&rsquo;t believe he could possibly recover.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Bob Hoover<\/strong> &mdash; legendary airshow display pilot<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rMJKKEnlhV8\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A cause never agreed<\/h2>\r\n<p>The official Franco-Soviet inquiry never pinned down what went wrong &mdash; and politics made sure of it. Investigators found &ldquo;no abnormality&rdquo; in the aircraft&rsquo;s design, an outcome convenient to both governments. The theories filled the vacuum instead: a French <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-iii\/\">Mirage III<\/a> chase plane photographing the secret canards, which the Soviet crew were never told about, forcing a violent evasive pull-up; a crewman with a film camera fouling the controls; a de-restricted flight-control system that snapped the elevons down after the canards retracted.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1073873913  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:GtFu.cd2e\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/tu-144-flight.jpg\" alt=\"A Tupolev Tu-144 in flight\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Tu-144 flew passengers for barely seven months before a second crash ended the program. US and Soviet SST dreams both faded.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>Whatever the trigger, the effect was final. The Tu-144 limped through a brief, troubled service life and was withdrawn in 1978 after another fatal crash. Concorde, its rival, flew on for thirty more years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0uog9eTsZMo\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>&ldquo;Concordski&rdquo; had wanted, more than anything, to beat Concorde in front of the world. Instead it gave Le Bourget its darkest afternoon &mdash; and became aviation&rsquo;s most famous cautionary tale about pride at an air show.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;color:#777;font-size:14px;margin-top:24px\">Sources: Wikipedia (1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash); TIME; PBS NOVA (&ldquo;Supersonic Spies&rdquo;); Howard Moon, &ldquo;Soviet SST&rdquo;; Flight International. Kozlov quote via TIME; Hoover quote via TIME Europe.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/the-boeing-2707-americas-concorde-that-congress-killed\/\">The Boeing 2707: America&rsquo;s Concorde That Congress Killed<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/handley-page-hp-115-slender-delta-concorde\/\">The Handley Page HP.115: The Little Delta That Made Concorde Possible<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West called it &ldquo;Concordski,&rdquo; half in mockery. It flew two months before Concorde, looked almost identical, and carried the pride of the entire Soviet aerospace industry on its needle nose. On 3 June 1973, in front of a quarter of a million people at the Paris Air Show, it came apart in the sky. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":13272207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13272597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-and-legends"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Concordski: The Tu-144 Crash at Paris 1973<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Soviet Tu-144 u201cConcordskiu201d beat Concorde into the air, then broke apart at the 1973 Paris Air Show. 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