A Russian army aircraft has crashed in annexed Crimea, killing six crew and 23 passengers on board, Russian information businesses reported within the early hours of Wednesday, citing the nation’s Protection Ministry
MOSCOW — A Russian army aircraft crashed in annexed Crimea, killing six crew and 23 passengers on board, Russian information businesses reported within the early hours of Wednesday, citing the nation’s Protection Ministry.
The An-26 army transport aircraft was finishing up a scheduled flight over the Crimean peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, the studies stated. The army misplaced contact with the aircraft round 6 p.m. on Tuesday.
Russian information company Interfax quoted the Protection Ministry as saying that they consider the crash was attributable to a technical malfunction and that there was no “damaging interference” with the aircraft.
The aircraft crashed right into a cliff, sources on the web site of the crash instructed state information businesses Tass and RIA Novosti.
The An-26 is a Soviet-designed army transport turboprop plane.
