A military transport plane carrying air force cadets crashes and bursts into flames near a highway in north-eastern Ukraine, killing at least 22 people on board, officials say.
A military transport plane carrying air force cadets has crashed and burst into flames near a highway in north-eastern Ukraine, killing at least 22 people on board, officials have said.One pilot reported failure in the left engineThe Antonov An-26 aircraft crashed while trying to land during a training exercise, Rusland Khomchak from the General Staff of the Armed Forces said in a statement.
An eyewitness who was driving along the road towards Chuhuiv told Reuters he saw a man in flames running from the plane after it crashed. "Another man came from the plane. He had a cut on his head. We pulled him to the opposite side . The one who was on fire, we put the fire out."
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