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The disaster occurred against the backdrop of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sukhoi Su-34 aircraft had been used extensively by Russia during the war. At the same time, journalists noted that the city of Yeysk is located close to Ukraine: 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Mariupol, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) to Bakhmut.
1 October – A MIG-31BM interceptor aircraft crashed during takeoff from Belbek Air Base in Crimea. While the navigator/weapons system officer ejected successfully, the pilot died and the aircraft burned out. [128] 17 October – 15 people died in Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai after a Su-34 fighter jet crashed into an apartment building. It was on a ...
2023 Gao Ilyushin Il-76 crash, the crash of another plane with suspected Wagner ties one month later. Lin Biao incident (13 September 1971), a suspicious aircraft crash which killed Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Lin Biao after he allegedly tried to assassinate Mao Zedong [89] [90] Suspicious deaths of notable Russians in 2022–2024
The incident took place 10km away from the town of Monchegorsk, near Russia’s Rizh-Guba island. One of the plane’s two jet engines exploded during a training exercise and the pilot then lost ...
The Su-34 fighter jet crashed during a training flight over Russia on Wednesday morning
Russian forces previously insisted that its aircraft did not hit the MQ-9 Reaper drone, maintaining that the drone moved sharply and crashed into the water after Putin's jets were scrambled to ...
Ukrainian officials reported the loss of a MiG-29 piloted by Commander Yevhen Lysenko; his fighter was destroyed by Russian air defenses while fighting Russian aircraft near Zhytomyr. [131] [132] 14 March Su-25 An Su-25 was shot down by Russian forces in Volnovakha, Donetsk Oblast. The pilot, Roman Vasyliuk, captured, was later released on 24 ...
A Russian military jet crashed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday and the two pilots were killed, officials said, the second such fatal incident in six days ...