In the Irkutsk region, when performing a planned flight, the Tu-22M3 aircraft crashed, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said. According to the agency, the crew of the aircraft of four people catapulted, but one pilot died as a result of landing. The preliminary cause of the emergency is called the technical malfunction. The Tu-22M3 emit has fallen in the Irkutsk region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the evening of April 2. “On the second of April in the Irkutsk region, when performing a planned flight, the Tu-22M3 aircraft crashed. The crew of the aircraft of four people catapulted. As a result of landing, according to the report of the crew commander, one pilot died, ”the department said. For preliminary information, the cause of the emergency was a technical malfunction. It is noted that the aircraft fell in a deserted area, there is no destruction on the ground. The governor of the Irkutsk region Igor Kobzev specified that the collapse occurred near the village of Broke of the Usolsky district. He also added that the aircraft touched the power line, leaving 210 houses and three socially significant objects without electricity. According to the head of the region, who arrived in the search and rescue team evacuated the crew to the location, the Ministry of Emergencies also work there. Also, on the topic, the surviving pilots of the fallen near the Irkutsk Tu-22M3 revealed fractures by doctors diagnosed fractures from two surviving crew members of the victim of the Tu-22M3 bomber in the Irkutsk region. In addition, a team of the Irkutsk electric grid company is engaged in the restoration of energy supply. “I hope for quick recovery. Estimated time-until the morning, ”Kobzev wrote in his Telegram channel. The visible pilots are under the supervision of doctors, he noted. One Tu-22M3 crashed in the Irkutsk region last August. As reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, this happened on August 15 when performing a planned flight. As the head of the Kobzev region specified, then one of the pilots died, the rest of the crew received injuries of varying severity. The leadership of the deceased pilot took place in his homeland – in the village of Onokhaye in Buryatia, the administration of the Zyazraevsky district of the Republic. One Tu-22M3 disaster occurred in April 2024 in the Stavropol Territory. Then, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the aircraft returned to the airfield after performing a combat mission. The head of the region Vladimir Vladimirov reported that the collapse occurred in the Krasnogvardeisky District, there was no destruction. The TASS agency clarified with reference to the power structures, that “black boxes” were discovered at the scene of the accident – parametric and speech displayers, who are parametric and speech self -recorders, who are a parametric self -signature. Subsequently, they were sent for decryption to a military laboratory.
