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The An-26 plane, which crashed in Chuguev, did not request an emergency landing at the airfield before that, said Ukrainian Air Force command spokesman Yuriy Ignat.
The investigation, which deals with the accident in Chuguev, Kharkiv region, of the An-26 plane with cadets, is studying the actions of the airfield dispatcher with two planes that were landing at that time.
This was announced on the air of the television channel Ukraine 24 by the spokesman for the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuriy Ignat.
“They started talking about it after statements from individual speakers who started to make some assumptions, even though they are members of the commission. There were not even two planes, but there were also two helicopters on the airfield, and the flight director on the tower. control made the right decisions and made them all, “he said.
According to an Air Force spokesman, the flight director “could not have acted otherwise according to all documents.”
“He allowed the first plane to land and immediately sent the plane with certain problems, the plane that didn’t ask for an emergency landing, but still sent it to the runway. And those two helicopters also made space so as not to prevent the planes from landing. between the first and second aircraft, it was enough for the first to sit on the runway without problems, release it, and at that moment the second was going to land. This is what we post today on our page, ”explained Ignat.
The Air Force command spokesman considers that the version of the terrorist attack as the cause of the accident is the least likely, “because enough material has already been collected.”
On October 2, the head of the Kharkiv regional state administration, Aleksey Kucher, spoke about the delay in the permission to land the An-26 after learning of the failure of one of the engines. The pilot reportedly received a response to his request to land only a minute later.
On September 3, the head of the Regional State Administration announced that the plane with the son of Air Force Commander Sergei Drozdov received a priority landing at the time the message about the malfunction of the An- plate was received. 26.
The Air Force said that Kucher’s words are a value judgment, which the head of the Regional State Administration took from some unknown source, “after all, he is not an expert on this matter.”
Clash of An-26 in Chuguev. Who were the 26 killed in the plane crash near Kharkov. Details
An An-26 training plane crashed and caught fire two kilometers from the Chuguev military airfield on the night of September 25. On board there were 27 people: seven soldiers (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.
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