The Russian L-39 crashed during a scheduled training flight, with Colonel Vadim Gurov and senior flight instructor Mikhail Lipatkin on board.
The Russian army has lost its L-39 training aircraft. Yesterday, August 14, propaganda media, citing the Russian Defense Ministry, reported that a Russian plane had crashed.
As noted, the L-39 crashed near an airfield in the Krasnodar Territory during a scheduled training flight.
The occupiers themselves claim that the plane crashed because of a bad landing, during which the crew was unable to get on the runway and eventually crashed into a radio communication tower.
The crash killed one of the crew members, Colonel Vadim Gurov, commander of the Maikop training air base (Republic of Adygea).
He was also accompanied by Mikhail Lipatkin, a senior flight instructor at the Akhtubinsk Main Flight Test Center, who is in hospital with injuries.
This is the second accident with Russian aircraft in recent times – last week, the occupiers “celebrated” the day of the so-called “air and space forces” by crashing their Su-30.
