“The crew took the burning plane away from residential buildings in the village of Podtalitsy.
None of those who were on the plane survived... Five of them are pilots of the 117th Orenburg Military Transport Aviation Regiment,” he wrote on Telegram.
Also on board were pilots from the Tver region.
On the afternoon of March 12, an Il-76 military transport aircraft crashed in the Ivanovo region, with 15 people on board.
The cause of the crash was the fire of one of the engines during takeoff.
The commission of the main command of the Russian Aerospace Forces flew to Ivanovo.
The families of those killed in the accident will receive assistance.