On Sunday, September 12, near Irkutsk (Russia), a twin-engine L-410 plane fell from a low altitude. After a hard landing, the aircraft caught fire.
As reported TASS, onboard there were 14 passengers and two crew members. The source of the publication said that the L-410 was severely damaged during landing. However, several people managed to get out of the salon on their own.
Telegram channel Mash, referring to the surviving passengers, he writes that, previously, one pilot died in the plane crash.
It was also preliminarily established that the accident could have happened due to a crew error in fog conditions. In addition, an engine failure could occur, which led to a hard landing of the aircraft.
According to “Interfax“, four people survived, one is in critical condition, and 11 passengers were trapped in the cabin. There was no fire in the cabin. The news agency indicated that the plane had crashed, previously, due to a technical failure.”
“According to preliminary data, there was a technical failure on board, the crew reported this to the dispatcher, then made an emergency landing in the taiga,” the message says.
The accident occurred four kilometers from the village of Kazachinskoe. The plane followed the route Irkutsk – Kazachinskoe.
The crashed plane belonged to the “SILA” airline. This July their the plane crashed near Tomsk.
As reported OBOZREVATEL, in Russian An-26 plane crashed on the Kamchatka Peninsula… Onboard there were 22 people, including one child and six crew members.
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