ATHENA, Jul 17 members of the crew of the Ukrainian An-12 aircraft. As Greek television previously reported, the plane crashed on Saturday evening, at about 22.45 (the time coincides with Moscow). Prior to the crash, the pilot reported an engine failure and was cleared for an emergency landing at Kavala Airport. According to eyewitnesses, the burning plane crashed into a cornfield a few kilometers from the airport. According to the Serbian Ministry of Defense, the plane that took off from the Serbian city of Nis was carrying 11.5 tons of the country's defense products to Bangladesh, all eight crew members died. «We are deeply saddened by the news of the crash of a cargo plane in northern Greece near Kavala. We express our sincere condolences to the families of eight Ukrainian crew members , tragically killed in a plane crash,» the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account says.
