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A search and rescue team was dispatched to the disaster site.
The aircraft was operated by the Turkish Forestry Board.
Representatives of the Russian forces structures said the aircraft did not belong to their Emergency Ministry.
For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry has announced that a commission will be dispatched to the disaster site to explain the cause of the disaster. According to the agency, the plane was piloted by five Russian soldiers and three Turkish citizens, who showed the crew the fires.
Five Russian soldiers and three Turkish nationals blew up a Be-200 fire engine that crashed in Turkey on Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
“There were five Russian soldiers and three representatives of the Republic of Turkey on the plane, who showed the crew the fire-fighting stacks,” the report says. “A commission from the Russian Defense Ministry was dispatched to the scene of the disaster to find out the causes of the disaster.”
Russia reported later on Saturday that a Be-200 firefighting plane crash in Turkey had killed all eight people on board.
According to the report, the Russian-owned Be-200 crashed around 3 pm 10 minutes. Moscow (and Lithuania) near the southern city of Adana, as it prepared to land after completing the firefighting task.
Russian consular representatives and a commission from the Defense Ministry went to the scene of the disaster.
