The passenger plane An-28 & nbsp; on Friday July 16 & nbsp; made a hard landing in & nbsp; the Tomsk region. Before & nbsp; this plane does not disappear from the & nbsp; radars, rescuers found it.
There were 18 & nbsp; on board, said Evgeny Bashkatov, deputy head of EMERCOM of Russia in & nbsp; Tomsk region. There were no fatalities in the incident.
How did the plane's hard landing go?
Passenger An-28 disappeared from radar shortly after taking off from the town of Kedrovy towards & nbsp; Tomsk. His emergency radio beacon was functioning at & nbsp; 12:27 & nbsp; Moscow time. At 2:36 p.m. Moscow time, the location of the plane's hard landing was found.
According to & nbsp; information from a TASS source in & nbsp; aviation services, the crew did not report any malfunctions on & nbsp; board, the flight proceeded normally, and & nbsp; before the departure of the An-28 was technically sound.
During landing, the plane overturned. He has a damaged nose, and & nbsp; also a landing gear. “ The plane landed hard on fairly soft ground with little vegetation, buried its nose and rolled over. The fire did not tracking & raquo ;, & nbsp; & mdash; said the agency contact. After a hard landing, passengers and crew exited the plane and started a fire from dead wood. & nbsp; region reported that after the evacuation, people would be delivered to Tomsk. At the city hospital, the aircraft commander was hospitalized with broken legs and a 17-year-old passenger suspected of having a concussion. The rest of the passengers, whose doctors found abrasions and bruises, did not require hospital treatment.
An-28. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org/Aleksandr Markin – Vol An-28.
What caused the plane to crash hard?
At this time, the reasons for the incident are under investigation.
According to data from the West Siberian Department of Investigation of the & nbsp; transport of SK & nbsp; RF, approximately at & nbsp; 10 & nbsp; minute of flight, both engines of the aircraft stopped working, their restart failed. After that, the captain chose a place for an emergency landing from a height. The aircraft made a hard landing at a distance of 180 m from the first point of contact. When the plane stopped, the plane rolled over.
According to & nbsp; As a result of what happened, investigators opened a criminal case under & nbsp; Art. & Nbsp; 263 & nbsp; Criminal Code of the Russian Federation & nbsp; (“ Violation of road safety rules and & nbsp; operation of air transport & # 39; & # 39;). The West Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office also launched an audit.