On Sunday (local time), a Russian warplane crashed into a house in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing both crew members, according to the authorities. A Russian combat plane crashed in a residential area for the second time in less than a week.
The Irkutsk region’s governor, Igor Kobzev, said the Su-30 fighter jet came down on a private, two-story building housing two families.
The five residents of the building were outside when the disaster occurred, he claimed, thus there were no casualties on the ground.
He promised to provide the residents with temporary housing as well as compensation.
Unknown at the time of the crash, a formal investigation has been launched. In the Yeysk, Sea of Azov, port on October 17, a Su-34 aircraft crashed near an apartment building and erupted in a massive fireball, killing 15 people and injuring another 19.
The crashes may be a result of the Russian air force being under increasing stress from the conflict in Ukraine.
The newest incident involved a plane that crashed during a training flight before being delivered to the air force, according to a statement from the United Aircraft Corporation, a state-controlled conglomerate of Russian aircraft manufacturing facilities. No weapons were on board the jet throughout the journey.
On Russian social networks, surveillance camera recordings showed the fighter doing an almost vertical dive before blowing up. In other videos, the structure was shown enveloped in flames with firefighters dispatched to put out the fire.
The Su-30, a supersonic twin-engine, two-seat fighter that has been a crucial part of the Russian air force, is manufactured in an aircraft factory in Irkutsk, a significant industrial hub in eastern Siberia with a population of more than 600,000.
The planes are also used by China, India, and many other nations.
Since Moscow dispatched its soldiers into Ukraine on February 24, there have been 11 documented non-combat crashes involving Russian warplanes. Sunday’s mishap was the latest. Military experts have noted that as the number of Russian military flights increased sharply during the fighting, so did the number of crashes..
In less than a week, a second Russian warplane has crashed into a building.
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