At least 22 people, most of them air cadets, have been killed in a military plane crash in Ukraine

At least 22 people, most of them air cadets, have been killed in a military plane crash in Ukraine

By Onlykhabar News Media Sat 26 September, 2020 ( about 5 years ago ) 🎤498 Viewersinternational

The aircraft, an Antonov - 26, came down near the eastern city of Kharkiv as it was landing.

Two were seriously injured, and a search operation is continuing into the night for three missing people. The plane was carrying cadets from Kharkiv Air Force University and was on a training flight.  Emergency ministry officials say 27 people were on board. The cause of the crash is being investigated. There is no suggestion that the crash is linked to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.  Chuhuiv is about 100km 60 miles from the front line where government forces are fighting pro-Russian separatists.   The plane came down about 2km (1.2 miles) from a military airport in the town of Chuhuiv, the emergency ministry officials say.

Fire broke out at the site and was later extinguished. An investigation is under way. President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to travel to the region on Saturday. "It's a shock," Deputy Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko said.  "At the moment it's impossible to establish the cause." Kharkiv regional governor Oleksiy Kucher said preliminary information suggested that one of the pilots had reported failure in one engine before the crash, but that this should not have been a critical situation. "Another car stopped behind us. We took a fire extinguisher and ran with another driver to help him," he said. An eyewitness told Reuters news agency he had seen a man in flames running from the wreckage. 

 

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At least 22 people, most of them air cadets, have been killed in a military plane crash in Ukraine

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