According to the chairman of the Kharkiv regional administration Aleksey Kucher, the cadet escaped, as he was covered from fire by fragments of the fuselage.
“Today ... he additionally said that he survived, because he was in a certain“ capsule ”from the fuselage, he covered it with a part of the plane, so the fire did not reach him.
He came to his senses and was able to leave the plane, was on fire, "Ukrinform quotes him.
According to Kucher, the cadet was interrogated by the investigators of the State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine, his words are set out in the interrogation protocol.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited a cadet in the hospital who survived the An-26 crash in the Kharkiv region.
It was reported that the cadet survived while on the plane.
Military aircraft An-26, on board which were seven officers and 20 cadets of the Kharkiv National University of the Air Force named after Kozhedub, crashed on the evening of September 25 when landing in the Kharkiv region.
The bodies of 25 dead were found at the crash site, another person died in the hospital.
One cadet survived.