The investigation is studying three possible versions of the plane crash in the Zhytomyr region.
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This was stated by DBR communication adviser Tatyana Sapyan to Interfax-Ukraine on August 28.
Prequalification is a violation of flight rules or preparation for them. However, the investigation will consider the following versions: technical malfunction of the aircraft, pilot error, violations in the organization of flights. To prove one of the versions, it is necessary to carry out “many examinations that are not done in one day.”
The adviser also added that according to preliminary data, the crash occurred “as a result of a collision of two aircraft during a turn maneuver.”
Recall that on August 25, L-39 aircraft collided in the sky over the Zhytomyr region, killing three Ukrainian pilots.
The 40th tactical aviation brigade based in Vasilkov spoke about its pilots.
- Major Vyacheslav Minka (lived in the Kyiv region). He returned to aviation in 2015, when the Russian aggressor attacked Ukraine. With the start of a full-scale invasion, there were over 200 flying hours. He was an experienced brigade pilot, technically trained. He knew different types of aircraft, devoted a significant part of his service to instructors.
- Major Sergei Prokazin (lived in the Poltava region). He devoted 24 years of his life to aviation: from a pilot to a deputy brigade commander. Since 2022, there have been over 100 hours of combat flights. The brothers remember his extraordinary smile, sincerity, ability to come to the rescue in difficult situations.
- Captain Andrey Pilshchikov (originally from Kharkov), callsign Juice. He devoted eight years of his life to aviation. With the start of the great war, there were over 500 flying hours. In particular, when performing combat missions in difficult conditions. Received a number of state and departmental awards. He was courageous, principled, uncompromising, always defended his own opinion to the end, actively spoke in Western media, in particular, on the issue of providing Ukraine with modern F-16 aircraft.
Source: Racurs
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