An-12 aircraft crashed in Irkutsk

The AN-12 military transport aircraft crashed during the flight from the factory of the Novosibirsk airfield Yeltsovka to the Irkutsk-2 airfield, Interfax reports with reference to the source in the emergency services of the Irkutsk region.

The plane crashed at the airport in Irkutsk. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the pilots, presumably, died. There were six crew people aboard. The aircraft in the truck belonged to the Irkutsk aircraft factory and belonged to experimental aviation, which is overseas the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the source said.

According to RIA Novosti , the plane did not get in touch at 16:00 Moscow time. In the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Irkutsk region, they said that the message about the fall of the aircraft was received at 16:38. According to the agency, the plane fell on a military warehouse in the suburbs of Irkutsk near the Bataneyna station. There is no information about the injured military personnel yet.

An-12-a four-engine turbopa military transport aircraft with a single-killed plumage and a tail hand hatch. Nedal to be operated in 1959. In Russia, the last disaster with the participation of the An-12 occurred in August 2011. The aircraft of Avis-Amur crashed in the Magadan region.

Irkutsk-2, an experimental airfield of the Irkutsk aircraft factory, is used for flight-technical testing of aircraft, is located in the north of the city.