Plane crash-26. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine announced the lack of access to flight recorders

The flight recorders for the An-26 plane, which crashed on the night of September 25 in the Kharkiv region, are located in the tail section of the plane; there is still no access to them. The deputy prime minister, head of the government commission to investigate the causes of the disaster, Oleg Urusky, spoke about this at an emergency meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Tthe transmission was made on the page of the Cabinet of Ministers on YouTube.

“For them [бортовым самописцам] as long as there is no access, until the work with the bodies of the victims is completed. Once the work is finished, representatives of the State Emergency Service will be able to reach the black boxes, that is, flight recorders, and depending on their status, then we will be able to receive data, ”Urusky explained.

A-26 plane crashed and caught fire 2 km from the Chuguev military airfield on September 25. around 21.00… There were 27 people on board: seven servicemen and 20 cadets from the Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv National Air Force University.

All on board were killed, while two cadets were able to jump shortly before the plane crashed. One of them was seriously injured and died in hospital on September 26; the life of the second survivor, according to the available information, is not in danger.

At the moment, the bodies of those killed in the accident have not been identified, this requires a DNA test.

According to the Security Service of Ukraine, a few minutes before the accident, the commander of the aircraft reported an engine failure and requested a landing, but for an unknown reason it crashed in front of the runway. At the same time, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Andriy Taran said that, according to a preliminary expert assessment, one of the sensors on the left engine failed and not the engine itself.

He also noted that, most likely, before the fall, the side caught the wing on the ground.