A Su-30 multifunctional fighter jet crashed on a two-story wooden residential building in Irkutsk during a test flight, the government of the Irkutsk region and the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported . A 200 square meter fire broke out at the crash site. Both pilots died, Interfax reports with reference to the Unified Dispatching Service on Duty. After the plane crash in Irkutsk, 150 houses were left without electricity.
The moment when the plane starts to lose altitude abruptly and goes into a dive was caught on video, it is published by Telegram channels.
On October 17, a Su-34 military aircraft crashed near a residential building in Yeysk, Krasnodar Territory, the pilots managed to eject. A fire broke out at the crash site, explosions sounded. The fire damaged several floors of the building. 15 people died.