fire immediately after takeoff
The press service of the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Emergencies of TASS reported that the report on the plane crash that occurred in the Ryazan region was received at 03:18 Moscow time.
“During a no-cargo training flight, the crew decided to land due to a detected engine failure. Upon contact with the ground to the RIA Novosti, the aircraft was partially destroyed, ”the Russian Ministry of Defense told the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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Telegram channels broadcast the video of the plane crash. The footage shows that the ship caught fire while still in the air. According to the Baza Telegram channel, a fire occurred in the fourth engine, causing the crash. A TASS source said the fire suppression system was not working.
“At this time, the cause of the plane crash has been determined to be an engine fire. An investigation into the circumstances of the incident will continue,” the agency’s source in the emergency services said.
According to Baza, the military plane flew from Belgorod to Orenburg and landed in Ryazan at the Diaghilev airfield for refueling. The plane took off again at 03:05.
“Less than a minute after takeoff, the airport controller saw a flare in the fourth engine area and tried to contact the crew. The commanders of the aircraft (there were two of them, the so-called “twin” crew) Gusarov and Petrushin did not respond. While trying to land, the IL-76 crashed into the ground, ”said the statement. .
Telegram channel Shot posted photos from the crash site. The plane broke into several pieces as it hit the ground, the landing gear was broken, it was caught in the debris and its fuselage was burned.
A source from the emergency services told TASS that the area was cordoned off and rescuers were dumping debris.
four dead
According to Telegram channel 112, Petrushin, one of the commanders of the aircraft, did not survive.
Total on board had nine people. The website of the government of the Ryazan region reported that four members of the crew of the IL-76 were killed, doctors provided assistance to five victims.
“According to preliminary information, four people died as a result of a plane crash in the Mikhailovsky highway area in Ryazan. Five more injured of varying severity are in medical institutions in Ryazan. They receive the necessary medical care. The condition of the victims is stable,” the statement said.
Acting Governor of the Ryazan Region Pavel Malkov announced on his Telegram channel that the condition of all victims is stable, but serious. A TASS source said one of the survivors is in intensive care.
“All services in the area worked quickly, which made it possible to save survivors. At the moment, Ryazan doctors provide assistance to five victims of the plane crash, ”wrote Malkov.
He also thanked the crew of the plane – “the pilots drove the last failed car away from the residential areas, the plane managed to land on the field” and avoided casualties on the ground.
The Mash Telegram channel reported that one of the deceased has not yet been identified: he was hospitalized “with multiple trauma”, doctors recorded the death at 05:50 in the morning.
A representative of the city emergency hospital in Ryazan told RIA Novosti that one victim was taken to the city hospital, and the rest to the regional clinical hospital.
eyewitnesses
A TASS source said the plane crashed in a field in the meadows of the floodplain of the Pletenka River, near the Mikhailovsky Highway, in the immediate vicinity of private residential buildings.
A local summer resident who witnessed the plane crash told RIA Novosti that when the Il-76 crashed, it hit a power line, after which electricity was cut off in his village.
“The growling was unnatural. I say to my wife, ‘The plane probably crashed.’ I go out – everything is already shining here. It was at the beginning of the fourth season,” he said.
It was confirmed by TASS that there was no electricity in the Ryazan administration, and it was stated that many streets of the city were cut off.
There was a power outage in two streets, Bibliotechnaya and Sitnikovskaya. “Residential buildings were left without electricity,” the source said.
Another eyewitness, a former pilot, told Izvestia that the Il-76 pilots were trying to steer the plane away from residential buildings.
“The landing approach is much further away. Here it fell. It shattered,” the man added.
According to open data, the Il-76 is a Soviet medium turbojet transport aircraft of military and civil aviation, one of the main transport aircraft of the USSR Air Force. At various times, the Il-76 has been operated by the United Nations, along with the air force and dozens of shipping airlines from more than 40 countries. But the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation became the largest operator of such aircraft. The Il-76 is the main aircraft of the military transport aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
Source: Gazeta
