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The Ilyushin Il-76 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-76; NATO reporting name: Candid) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the Antonov An-12.
The Russian military said the flight originated from Chkalovsky Air Base near Moscow. [ 16 ] The Il-76 and the crew belonged to the 117th Military Transport Aviation Regiment [ ru ] (military base No. 45097), the regiment's tasks include servicing military vehicles transporting special cargo for material support of the Russian army.
The Russian defence ministry said six Russian crew members and three Russian soldiers had been on the Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane shot down near the Russian city of Belgorod near the ...
He added that they were from the 117th Military Transport Aviation Regiment. [5] Meanwhile, the governor of Tver Oblast, Igor Rudenya, also said there were pilots from Tver. [6] The crash occurred at 13:00 Moscow time near Bogorodskoye District in Ivanovo Oblast. One of the aircraft's engines caught fire during takeoff for a routine flight. [7]
A Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board crashed on Tuesday while taking off from an air base in western Russia, the Defense Ministry said. It said the Il-76 aircraft with eight ...
Ukraine says it has intelligence suggesting only five bodies were delivered from the crash site of a Russian military transport plane ... Yusov also claimed that Russian IL-76 aircraft were often ...
The aircraft involved in the accident was an Ilyushin Il-76 strategic airlifter.In the immediate aftermath of the crash it was unclear by whom the aircraft was operated. Speculation that the aircraft was operating on behalf of the United Nations' MINUSMA peacekeeping mission was denied by the UN in a statement given to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitu
Yusov added that two other Russian military transport planes An-26 and An-72 were simultaneously in the airspace. Russia said the Ilyushin Il-76 military plane was carrying 65 captured Ukrainian ...