(VOVworld) – On Sunday, Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee confirmed that 10 crew members abroad an Il-76 plane were killed and the aircraft completely destroyed while extinguishing forest fires in the Irkutsk region.
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The site of the crash (Photo: www.therussophile.org) |
The aircraft’s black box has been recovered. Aviation experts say the aircraft may have crashed into a mountain in low visibility conditions. But the plane’s black box is being analyzed to confirm the cause of the accident.