A passenger plane crashed near Moscow

Near Moscow, a passenger plane crashed, this is reported by Rosaviatsia.

It is known that it was without passengers—only a crew of three people. All three pilots were killed.

According to media reports, the Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashed after taking off for testing from Zhukovsky airfield.

The plane had been in the air for more than an hour before it went down, it was giving a distress signal.

Judging by online radar data, the plane circled in the air and then flew towards a forest area, and there was an explosion.

The model is a Sukhoi Superjet 100-95. It flew for the first time on December 16, 2014.

Since December 14, 2015, it has been in service with Gazprom-Avia.

Due to the full-scale attack on Ukraine, Russia has found itself under serious sanctions.

Among them was a ban on the supply of spare parts for airplanes.

After that, the number of airplane breakdowns in the aggressor country increased significantly.

In 2023 alone, more than 180 accidents were recorded.