An-2 plane crashes in Ukraine
An An-2 plane crashed in Ukraine's Poltava region, injuring the pilot and flight engineer, local police spokesman Yury Sulayev said on Sunday.
“The An-2 plane crashed near the village of Mlyny. Fortunately, the pilot and flight engineer managed to eject before the plane hit the ground. They were injured and are being treated by doctors,” Sulayev told the “112 Ukraine” channel.
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Law enforcement officers and national emergency services personnel are working at the scene, he said.
“The plane was blown up and nothing was left. The plane belonged to a farm. A criminal case for “violation of traffic safety rules or the operation of railways, waterways or air transport” is being processed,” he said.
The An-2 aircraft is called Annushka (NATO reporting nameColt) first flew in 1947 and was the first aircraft designed by Antonov. It was mass produced from the 1960s in the Soviet Union. It is a lightweight, single-engine biplane with a very high reliability. It is used as a light transport aircraft, with a capacity of 12 passengers, and for paratroopers and agricultural work. Its ability to fly very slowly and take off and land on short runways makes it well suited to operating from short and field airfields, and a number of special variants have been built to operate in harsh weather conditions.