The head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration said the plane with the son of the Air Force commander was given priority in landing before the An-26Sh crash. Drozdov reacted



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The head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Aleksey Kucher said that at the time of landing of the first side, it was known about the malfunction of the An-26Sh aircraft, which subsequently crashed near Chuguev, Kharkiv region. The Commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Sergei Drozdov, urged not to jump to conclusions.

The plane with the son of the Commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergei Drozdov received landing priority while receiving the message about a malfunction of the An-26Sh, which subsequently crashed near Chuguev, Kharkov region, he said. the head of the Kharkov Regional State Administration, Alexei Kucher, on the air of the program “Freedom of expression Savik Shuster” on the channel “Ukraine”.

“You said about your son, who was on the second board [он приземлился первым]… This is what I’m talking about: that landing priority was given to the second side, that it was useful. You confirmed this, I never allowed myself to express this story publicly before this conversation, although I knew everything. At the same time, it was known at the time of landing on the first side that the second was defective, “Kucher said.

Drozdov asked not to jump to conclusions and wait for the examination. According to him, the landing of one side did not interfere with the landing of the second.

“An-26 was get through and land immediately, he couldn’t. She needed to go to the U-turn. The previous aircraft, which was already in the landing direction, did not interfere at all, ”he said.

The An-26Sh training plane fell and caught fire two kilometers from the Chuguev military airfield. There were 27 people on board: seven military personnel (crew and instructors) and 20 cadets from the Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv National Air Force University.

26 people died. The life of a sole survivor, a cadet Vyacheslav Zolochevsky, nothing threatens.

According to the Security Service of Ukraine, a few minutes before the disaster the aircraft commander reported a left engine failure and requested a landing, however, for an unknown reason, the aircraft crashed on the side of the runway.

On September 28, experts began decoding the An-26Sh flight recorders. The black boxes were decrypted on September 30, but their data was not released as the examination continues.



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