A Russian military jet crashed in Tula
Moscow, GooScript - A Russian military jet on Tuesday (28/12) night, crashed in Tula, south of Moscow, killing 11 people tesebut incident in it, Interfax news agency reported, citing a law enforcement. "According to preliminary data, there were 11 people inside the plane, they are all dead," the source told Interfax.
The plane that dropped the type of Antonov An-22, the agency said. Meanwhile, Russian news agency, Ria Novosti, the report said, the ruins of an Air Force transport plane An-22 Russian who crashed and burned Tuesday night from the air found in the Tula Region, central Russia, according to the sources of law enforcement agencies.
"the burning wreckage recovered from the air at 2:36 pm Moscow time (06:36 GMT, Wednesday) near the village of Krasny Oktyabr in Tula Region,"the source said, adding that rescue teams had been sent to the crash site.
Russian Defence Ministry said earlier that the plane An-22 Cock was on his way to the airport Migalovo and disappeared from radar screens at 21:30 Moscow time. According to preliminary information, approximately 12 people were on board the Russian Air Force, said a source at the ministry of defense. He said the failure of aviation equipment, especially the engine failure, probably caused the accident. According to various sources, there are up to 300 transport aircraft in carrying out the service in the Russian Air Force, including aircraft An-12 Cub, An-72 Coaler, An-22 Cock, An-124 Condor and Il-76 Candid.
Most of the aircraft began operating in the 1960s and the 1970s and considered obsolete by modern safety standards and noise pollution.
Ant, AFP, RIA Novosti, OANA
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