Advertisement
Advertisement
One killed in transport plane crash in Ukraine, fog to blame – authorities
By:
KYIV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian AN-26 transport plane crashed during a "technical flight" in southern Ukraine on Friday and there were casualties, local authorities said.
KYIV (Reuters) -One person was killed and two were injured on Friday when a transport plane in southern Ukraine descended too low in fog and hit high-voltage power lines, local authorities said.
The accident occurred in the Zaporizhzhia region, the authorities said in a Facebook post. The twin-propellor Antonov An-26 had been on a technical flight from Zaporizhzhia to Uzhhorod, some 970 km (600 miles) away, they said.
(Reporting By Pavel Polityuk, Editing by Timothy Heritage and Sandra Maler)
About the Author
Reuterscontributor
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest international multimedia news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world's media organizations, and directly to consumers at Reuters.com and via Reuters TV. Learn more about Thomson Reuters products:
Latest news and analysis
Advertisement