A Sukhoi Superjet 100NEW-95 plane crashed in the Moscow region near Kolomna, SHOT and RIA Novosti reported. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, three crew members were killed, there were no other casualties.
According to SHOT, the plane took off for testing from the Zhukovsky airfield. The head of Kolomna, Alexander Grechishchev, writes in the telegram channel that there were two pilots and a navigator on board.
As telegram channel 112 adds, the crashed plane belonged to the Gazprom-Avia company, it disappeared from radar at 15: 00.
The Aviatorschina Telegram channel published a video in which Deputy Head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Andrei Dobryakov tells one of the representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade that the plane flew without permission from the Tretyakovo airfield in Lukhovitsy near Moscow. It is not in the register of civil aviation airfields.
A TASS source in aviation services said that the reason for the failure of the systems of the crashed Superjet 100 could have been birds getting into the engines.
Updated at 21:05. Added information that the plane probably took off without permission and birds could have gotten into its engines.