At the Perm airport "Bolshoe Savino" during acceleration on the runway, the engine of a MiG-31 fighter caught fire.
As eyewitnesses of the incident told Kommersant-Perm , the pilots were able to stop the car 300 meters after the start of the run, leave it and evacuate on their own to a safe distance. Arriving firefighters extinguished the fighter.
According to the portal 59.ru , the fighter broke out already during takeoff. The plane took off from the Sokol military airbase and immediately landed at the Bolshoe Savino airport.
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