And at least 29 people have been confirmed dead since a Russian military plane named the Antonov An-26 aircraft crashed in Crimea, the state-run Russian newspaper Interfax.
The aircraft operated by the Russian Armed Forces had been on a routine flight when it was brought down under obscure circumstances. Emergency services rushed to the crash site shortly after the incident and officials said there was no sign that the crew and passengers survived.
I can hazard an immediate guess that technical problems and weather could be factors of some sort in the accident. What was the cause of this tragedy then we have started looking into it so far by way of investigation through formal inquiry?
The Antonov An-26 is an immensely versatile military transport aircraft used by many countries for the common practice in military transport on ground, but a few incidents in world history revealed that the model had proved to be the conventional way things go there.
A number of videos circulating on social media showed debris littered on its way out, and smoke from the crash scene. Search teams and military officials are preparing for a search.
That disaster has raised new concerns about the safety of old military aircraft fleets (e.g. an An-26 over the last 60 years to be exact). Aviation experts say the old Soviet-era production aircraft still have many units that will go in the service in need of regular maintenance and upgrades and they’re at least as dangerous if not more dangerous than the new ones.
Officials are also in the process of notifying the families of the victims and military forces have offered condolences and expressed full transparency in this investigation.
