“When the plane fell, I immediately thought about it,” the interlocutor said.
According to the man, Sergei S. is from Tver, served in the Far East, and ended up in Ivanovo.
He left behind a twin brother, who was also in aviation, but left of his own free will.
The deceased pilot left behind a son.
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.
There were pilots from the Tver region and the Orenburg region on board.