The crew of an experienced model of the newest Russian military transport aircraft Il-112B crashed in the Cube near Moscow, flew from the Ramenskoye airfield at 10:35. Full flight chronology restored the “Komsomolskaya Pravda” edition.
at 11:09 Aircraft landed at the Kubinka airfield, from where at 11:14 after the planned inspection made a rise for experimental flight over the WFP “Patriot”.
at 11:18 The commander of the aircraft Nikolai Kimov informed the dispatcher about fire in the right engine, at 11:20, the connection with the board was lost.
The message about the crash of the aircraft entered the duty of the Cuban police department at 11:23. After that, the police went to the scene of the incident, they found wreckage IL-112B.
As it became known earlier, the crashing plane has already revealed problems with the engine several times. The first flight took place in 2019, and he was also accompanied by problems. For almost a year and a half, the vessel stood on Earth, then it began to actively exploit it again and revealed problems with the engine.
Wester IL-112B during the training flight at the Kubinka airfield near Moscow. On board the aircraft there were three members of the crew: commander, test pilot, hero of Russia Nikolai Kimov, Test pilot Dmitry Komarov and flight manager Tester Nikolay Khludev. Investigators are considering two versions of the incident: the technical malfunction of the aircraft and the piloting error.