Russian Plane Crashes In Ukraine
Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News Staff Writer Moscow, Russia (AHN) - Adding another incident to series of crashes involving the Russian planes, a jet carrying the chief of staff of the Russian navy and other officers caught fire after crash-landing in an airfield in Crimea. This marks the fourth incident in the past 36 hours. No fatalities were immediately reported and the Russian navy chief of staff, Admiral Vladimir Masorinym, was unhurt but several officers in his delegation received burns of varying degrees in the accident, Interfax said quoting a source with the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Navy spokesperson Captain Igor Dygalo confirmed the accident but made no mention of Masorinym's presence on board. "The crew and a group of officers who were aboard left the aircraft in an orderly manner," he said. "Three people were hospitalized, though their lives are not in danger." The navy said one possible cause of the crash was a bird being sucked into one of the two engines of the Tupolev 134 as it took off from Simferopol, causing it to stop. The crash follows three other aviation accidents involving Russian jets. One of them was the fatal crash of Russian airliner in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday, which left at least 124 dead and four missing. The others included two emergency landings - one at Simferopol and the other also in the Russian Siberian city of Irkutsk, both earlier on Monday. |
