Il-96 caught fire in Sheremetyevo

At the technical parking lot at the Moscow Airport Sheremetyevo, the IL-96 plane caught fire. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the representative of the operational headquarters at the site of the incident. “The plane burns throughout the area, there are no people on board,” the agency’s interlocutor said. He called the preliminary cause of the incident "spontaneous fire."

The fire was eliminated a little more than half an hour. 18 calculations and 63 people were attracted to the fight against fire. During the incident, no one was injured. The airport operates in normal mode.

The press service of the Department of Transport of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Central Federal District reported that the aircraft, according to preliminary data, was under repair. An investigative-operational group left for the fire site.

In November 2013, the Tatarstan Airlines crashed at the Kazan Airport Passenger Boeing . When entering the second circle, the plane collided with the ground, fell on the runway and caught fire.

On board were 50 people - 44 passengers and 6 crew members. All of them died. Among the victims of the incident were Irek Minnikhanov - the son of Tataria President Rustam Minnikhanov - and the head of the Republican FSB Alexander Antonov.