Two pilots dead after Russian jet crashes into house in Siberia
- A Russian military jet crashed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk
- It was the second such fatal incident in six days involving a Sukhoi fighter plane
Two pilots were killed after a Russian jet conducting a test flight crashed on Sunday into a two-storey house in the city of Irkutsk in southern Siberia, the regional governor said.
The incident comes days after a military jet crashed into a block of flats in the Russian town of Yeysk near Ukraine, killing more than a dozen people, including children.
“A Su category plane hit a two-storey building in Irkutsk on Przhevalskogo street,” governor Igor Kobzev said on social media.
The local department of the emergencies ministry clarified that a “Su-30 aircraft crashed during a test flight”.
Kobzev later said two pilots were killed in the crash but residents were unharmed.
He posted a video of the building, which he described as a “private home for two families of 100 metres squared”, with smoke billowing against a dark sky.
At least a dozen firefighters were seen at the scene, working to extinguish the fire that broke out after the crash.