A Russian navy transport airplane crashed on Tuesday with 15 individuals on board after one among its engines burst into flames after takeoff — reportedly killing all on board, fiery video exhibits.
The Il-76 airplane carrying eight crew members and 7 passengers went down within the Ivanovo area northeast of Moscow, in line with Russia’s Protection Ministry. It’s unclear who the passengers had been and the place they had been headed.
Dramatic cellphone footage shared on the “112” Telegram channel confirmed the plane with one engine ablaze quickly shedding altitude.
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One other video confirmed a plume of thick black smoke rising into the sky over a wooded space.
On-line information retailers reported that there have been no survivors.
“At about 1:00 p.m. Moscow time, an IL-76 navy transport plane crashed throughout takeoff for a scheduled flight within the Ivanovo area,” the Protection Ministry was quoted as saying by the state-run TASS information company.
The ministry’s assertion mentioned that an engine fireplace was the probably reason for the crash.
The engine reportedly turned engulfed in flames nearly instantly after the airplane took off from the “Severny” air base.
The pilots had been mentioned to have tried to return to the airfield for an emergency touchdown however couldn’t make it.
The crew, nonetheless, was capable of get the burning airplane away from a residential space, earlier than it crashed within the woods close to a cemetery outdoors the village of Bogorodskoe, reported the Telegram channel “112.”
The four-engine Il-76 is a heavy-lift transport airplane that has been in service for the reason that Seventies with the Soviet after which Russian Airforce.
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