The Ministry of Defense suspended Su-27 flights

Su-27 flights in Russia are stopped until the reasons for the fall of a fighter in the Moscow region are clarified. This was reported to "Interfax" in the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Earlier, the military department called the most likely cause of the disaster. The Ministry of Defense added that before the crash, the pilot tried to take the plane from the village. He had no time to catapult, the pilot died .

The fall of a fighter in the suburbs became known on the morning of June 9. It was reported that the MiG-29 plane fell near the village of Muranovo. As media sources later reported and confirmed to the Ministry of Defense, a fallen fighter-the Su-27, which was part of the Russian Knights pilot group.

The fighter crashed after participating in the opening ceremony of the monument to Russian aviators in the Pushkin district of the Moscow Region.