At Least 22 Dead After Ukrainian Military Plane Burst Into Flames While Landing - Fort Russ
KIEV – A Ukrainian military plane carrying air force cadets and pilots has crashed in the northeast of the country, killing at least 22 people, officials confirmed. At least 2 people were injured and taken to hospital following the incident, which occurred on a training flight according to the...
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目前正在寻找4 morepeople according to The Kyiv Post, which added that one trainee thought to have been caught up in the crash was discovered to have not boarded the Antonov An-26 carrier.Of the 27 peopleon board,21 are reported to have been cadets.
The crash took place 2km from a military airport near the city of Kharkiv, the State of Emergency Service in Ukraine said in a statement.
“The bodies of 22 people were found, two people were injured and the search for four people continues,” the agency added.
It is currently unclear what led to the incident as the plane came into land, with footage from the scene showing the aircraft engulfed in flames by the side of a road.
Zelensky wrote on Facebook that the incident was “a terrible tragedy”, adding that he had “just no words”. He said that he would visit the region tomorrow, and was “urgently creating a government commission to investigate all circumstances and causes of the tragedy” which will be led by prime minister Denys Shmyhal.
Later, it was reported that one of two Ukrainian cadets, who survived after the An-26 military transport plane crashed on Friday in the Kharkov region, died in hospital, the Ukrainian Emergencies Situations Service said later during the day.
“As of 10:50 AM the person, who was in critical condition in hospital after the plane crash, died,” the service announced, TASS reported.
Later, the Ukrainian Prosecutor-General’s Office reported that 25 out of 27 people onboard the An-26 plane were killed. Two cadets survived after jumping out of the plane, according to the Kharkov region’s Governor Alexei Kucher. They were hospitalized in grave condition
‘Black boxes’ of crashed Ukrainian plane recovered
The data from the flight recorders would be decoded very soon, Kharkov Regional Governor Alexei Kucher said
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KIEV, September 26. /TASS/. The flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder were recovered from under the debris of the An-26 military-transport plane, which crashed in the Ukrainian Kharkov Region on Friday, during the search and rescue operation, Kharkov Regional Governor Alexei Kucher said on Saturday.
"As far as I know, the flight recorders have been seized but they are not examined yet. I know for sure that about 45 seconds or a minute before the crash, the pilot was talking with the flight controller and they were discussing a possibility of the landing,"Ukrinformnews agency said citing the governor.
Kucher hoped that the data from the flight recorders would be decoded very soon.
The Kharkov regional governor dismissed media reports that the only survivor in the crash, a cadet from the air school, could survive as he had jumped off the plane. The man said that he was inside the crashed aircraft. According to Kucher, he heard this from the cadet when visiting him in hospital.
"[Ukrainian] President [Vladimir Zelensky] and I visited the military hospital and talked with the guy who is the only survivor," Alexei Kucher said. "In fact, he is in satisfactory physical condition.He said that it was happening like in a computer game. He does not remember everything. He passed out for a whileand when he came round, he saw his friend on fire and he helped to put the blaze out on that guy who was also in hospital yesterday, but regrettably, passed away today."
On September 25, an An-26 military transport plane crashed in the Chuguyev district of northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkov region during a landing approach. A total of 27 people were onboard the plane. Apart from the crew, the plane had cadets of the Ivan Kozhedub National Air Force University on board, and was performing a training flight. Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office said that 25 people were killed in the crash and two more were rushed to hospital in critical condition. Later, one of them died. Thus,the crash death toll climbed to 26.