2023-09-12 21:40:34
Russian Su-24 fighter. Europa Press/Contact/Mihail Siergiejevicz
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that a Su-24 fighter jet crashed this Tuesday afternoon in the city of Volgograd, located in the southwest of the Eurasian country, during a training flight.
According to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry on Telegram, the fighter was flying without a load of ammunition and with two crew members on board. The authorities sent search and rescue teams to the area of the event.
Local authorities reported that no material damage or fatalities have been reported “on the ground,” although they have not provided more details about the whereabouts of the two crew members.
With this, there are now 10 combat aircraft that the Kremlin has lost so far this year in its territory.
On August 12, a Russian fighter plane, model Su-30, crashed in the Kaliningrad region, an enclave between Poland and Lithuania and the “weakest link” of NATO, while carrying out a training flight. Both crew members of the ship died in the accident.
The spokesman for the Western Military District reported what happened in a statement in which he specified that “on August 12, while a training flight from Kaliningrad was being carried out, a Su-30 plane crashed in a desert area” to which, Moscow’s Defense Ministry later added that the accident was due to a “technical failure.”
After engine failure, the pilot managed to eject but later died.
Likewise, it was ruled out that the ship was carrying ammunition at the time of the accident and, although the Russian authorities did not report the death of the crew, it is known that it is a two-seater ship and the images confirm that none of them were ejected.
However, the official version is a bit different from the videos spread on social networks that show that the plane crash did not occur in a desert area but, on the contrary, there were many witnesses in the area, in what appeared to be a event.
Images spread on the Internet show the ship flying at high speed and at a dangerously low altitude and, seconds later, falling upside down until crashing into the ground.
On July 17, a Russian Su-25 fighter jet crashed during a training flight over the Sea of Azov, near the southern Russian region of Krasnodar, the press service of Russia’s Southern Military District reported.
“On July 17, during a training flight in the Krasnodar region over the waters of the Sea of Azov, a Su-25 attack aircraft crashed,” says the official note, cited by the TASS agency.
Russian media broadcast a video of the plane falling into the Sea of Azov (located off the southern coasts of Russia and Ukraine) a short distance from a busy Yeysk Spit beach.
The preliminary cause of the accident, according to authorities, was engine failure. The pilot did not survive the accident. According to several Russian Telegram channels, the pilot managed to eject and was located by search teams, but died from the injuries caused by the fall.
“I express my condolences to the relatives of the victim who died when his Su-25 attack aircraft crashed during a training flight,” Roman Bublik, head of the Yeisk district in the southern Krasnodar region, said on social media.
Last year there were more than 10 aircraft accidents involving Russian warplanes that were not participating in combat. Military experts have noted that as the number of Russian military flights increased sharply during the invasion of Ukraine, so did accidents.
(With information from Europa Press)
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