All passengers and crew members of the An-28 aircraft, which made a hard landing in the Tomsk region, are alive.
The aircraft landed in the Bakchar region.
According to preliminary information, equipment failure was the cause of the incident.
Subsequently, the co-pilot of the aircraft, Farukh Khasanov, confirmed that both engines of the aircraft had failed.
“Failure of two engines.
Then the commission will figure it out.
We had no time to think: we had to do our work.
We're fine.
Everything went as usual.
Everyone is alive and well - the most important thing, ”he told reporters.
The regional Ministry of Emergency Situations said that at 13:00 Moscow time, the dispatcher of the search and rescue coordination center received a message about the operation of the emergency beacon near the An-28 aircraft belonging to the "SiLA" airline.
“The lighthouse worked over the Bakcharsky region, 15 km from the settlement.
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An Mi-8 board was sent from the Luginetskoye field to check the coordinates, "the Emergencies Ministry said at the time.
As specified in the department, the An-28 followed the route from the city of Kedrovy to Tomsk.
Onboard there were 18 people, three of them were crew members.
The Emergencies Ministry sent a helicopter from Tomsk to the scene.
The department reported on a successful rescue operation.
The regional administration, citing doctors, said that the passengers at the place of the hard landing were mainly bruises and abrasions.
The Governor of the Tomsk Region Sergey Zhvachkin thanked the pilots of the An-28 who made a hard landing for their professionalism.
“We all believed in a miracle, and thanks to the professionalism of the pilots, it came true, everyone is alive.
All will be delivered to Tomsk, all will be examined by doctors at the regional clinical hospital.
Those who definitely do not need medical help, we will take them home, ”the press service quotes Zhvachkin as saying.
In addition to insurance payments, victims of a hard landing will receive compensation from the regional budget, TASS was told in the administration of the Tomsk region.
The amount of payments will depend on the severity of the injuries sustained.
Based on videos and photographs from the landing site, the plane capsized as a result of the landing.
Rostransnadzor intends to check the company LLC "SiLa" ("Siberian Light Aviation") on the fact of an accident with the aircraft.
For this purpose, a separate commission has already been formed, the department said.
It is noted that the head of the territorial department of Gosavianadzor of the Federal Service for Supervision of Transport, Yuri Rozhko, arrived at the scene.
SiLA LLC was founded in 2006 in Magadan.
As it became known to RT, over the past two years, eight violations have been discovered in the company.
Some of them are related to documentation - the signed and approved annual schedule for the training of flight personnel was not presented, and the purpose of the training was not indicated.
There were violations of flight safety.
In particular, over the past three years, the flight crew did not undergo theoretical training in the withdrawal of the aircraft in difficult conditions.
Several pilots have not been trained in emergency evacuation procedures on the water.
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The passenger, who was supposed to fly aboard the An-28, which made a hard landing, told RT that she was going to take it on vacation.
“Now we will definitely not fly there by air.
I went there all the time by car, for the first time I decided to fly to save time, ”she said.
At the same time, some of the passengers who were supposed to fly on board the An-28 intend to buy tickets for other flights.
The brother of one of the passengers of the An-28 plane, which made a hard landing in the Tomsk region, told RT the details he learned from a relative, Roman Kovsharov.
He flew with his mother to his sister, who enters the university there.
“They flew to Tomsk.
I don’t remember for what reason, but the flight was postponed.
They flew.
I learned from the news that the engine caught fire in flight.
He himself said that everything is fine.
All passengers (feel
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) are fine.
The pilot seemed to have broken his leg.
His chassis, or something, fit into the leg, ”he said.
According to a relative of Daria Solodkina, who was on board, those who met at the Tomsk airport were not initially informed about the incident, there was only information that the flight was delayed.
Daria's grandfather, who was waiting for her at the airport, learned about the hard landing from his friends.
“We are really looking forward to Dasha - so that she would fly as soon as possible to make sure that everything is in order.
We believe in the best.
She flew from Kedrovoye to study, ”added Ksenia.