An-22 Antey military cargo aircraft crashes in Russia
Photo: An An-22 Antey military transport aircraft crashed in Russia (wikipedia.org)
A military transport plane, An-22 Antey, crashed in the Ivanovo region of Russia with seven crew members on board, REN TV reports.
An An-22 aircraft crashed in the Ivanovo region. According to the channel, there were seven crew members on board. TASS confirms the crash, citing emergency services.
The accident occurred in the Furmanovsky district of the region. According to several Russian media outlets, the transport aircraft belonged to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The An-22 crashed in the Ivanovo region near the Uvodsky Reservoir, and fragments of the aircraft were found in the water. Antey was making a scheduled flight after repairs.
What Russian Ministry of Defense says
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed the crash of an An-22 transport plane.
"Today, during a test flight after repairs, an An-22 military transport plane crashed. The plane fell in a deserted area," the Defense Ministry says.
A search and rescue team had flown to the crash site to determine the fate of the crew. A commission from the Russian Air Force is also flying to the crash site to establish all the circumstances of the accident.
An-22
The An-22 Antei is a Soviet turboprop transport aircraft that was created in 1965 in Kyiv by the O. K. Antonov Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex. The aircraft set 41 world aviation records.
Serial production of the An-22 was organized at the Tashkent Aircraft Plant. The first Anteys began to arrive in the USSR Air Force in January 1969. Production of the aircraft continued until January 1976. From November 1965 to January 1976, 66 aircraft of this type were produced.
The aircraft can carry 29 people, accompanying cargo, 290 soldiers, or 206 wounded. The An-22 has a payload capacity of 60 tons.
In July, an An-24 passenger plane with 49 people on board crashed in the Amur region of Russia. None of the passengers or crew members on board the aircraft survived. The wreckage of the plane was collected over an area of half a kilometer.
Earlier, an An-2 aircraft crashed in the Krasnodar region of Russia. Preliminary reports indicate that two Russians may have been killed.
