The aircraft crashed ‘during a training flight’, Telegram said on Sunday the governor from the Irkutsk region, Igor Kobzev.
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A fighter plane crashed into a house in Irkutsk, southern Siberia (Russia), on Sunday October 23, announced on Telegram (in Russian) the governor from the Irkutsk region, Igor Kobzev. Two pilots were killed, but the crash did not cause casualties among the inhabitants, specified the governor.
“A Sukhoi plane crashed into a two-story house on Przhevalsky Street. I went to the spot,” the governor had first announced on Telegram, adding that he had no information at this stage. “on possible victims”.
A little after, Igor Kobzev clarified on Telegram that two pilots had been killed, but that“none of the local residents were injured”. The plane, an Su-30 according to the rescue services cited by Russian news agencies, crashed “during a test flight”, he added. According to the local branch of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the aircraft crashed into a private two-storey wooden house, causing a fire on an area of 200 square meters.
On Monday, a Russian Su-34 military plane crashed into residential buildings in the city of Yeysk (Russia), near the border with Ukrainekilling 15, according to Deputy Governor of the Krasnodar Region of Russia, Anna Minkova. The accident also injured 43 people, including nine children.