“In the process of landing, the Siberian marshland played like an aerial arrestor.
The soft ground worked like an airbag in the car.
The plane ran into soft ground, capsized and everyone hung on the belts, ”Interfax quotes him as saying.
Prytkov also spoke about the evacuation of passengers.
“About 60-70 percent of passengers were evacuated through my seat.
Then one of the passengers, Roman, who turned out to be an athlete, and our flight mechanic Nikita managed to open the main hatch, and the rest of the passengers left the plane through it, ”said the pilot.
The plane disappeared from radar on Friday, July 16th.
The liner made a hard landing, the landing site was found by a helicopter in the Bakchar region. All passengers and crew members are alive.