The Su-25 on Monday evening crashed in the Stavropol region, killing the pilot, reported the Press Service and the Russian Defense Ministry data.
«Today at 19.23 MSK in the area airfield Budennovsk, Stavropol Territory in carrying out routine training flight crashed Su-25. The flight was carried out without any ammunition. The plane crashed in an uninhabited area, there is no destruction. The pilot was killed, “- quoted by RIA” Novosti “agency.
Su-25 ‘Grach’ (on the codification of NATO Frogfoot) – armored subsonic ground-attack aircraft designed to provide close air support for the troops in the fighting during the day and at night when visual visibility purposes as well as for day of defeat objects with known coordinates in all weather conditions.
We also recall that in December as a result of the collapse of the light aircraft in the foothill regions of Stavropol region killed four people. A law enforcement source in the region said that, according to preliminary data, the plane performed an unauthorized flight.
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