“On August 18, 2021, a MiG-29 plane crashed during a scheduled flight in the Astrakhan region.

The plane crashed in a deserted place on the territory of the Ashuluk training ground ... The pilot died, "TASS reports.

It is specified that the flight was carried out without ammunition. 

On August 17, near the Kubinka airfield near Moscow, an accident occurred during a training flight of an Il-112V military transport aircraft.

The United Aircraft Corporation said that there were no survivors of the plane crash in the Moscow region.