Lithuanian plane crashed in Ukraine

16.08.2002 | Source:

Pravda.Ru

The information about the crash is rather contradictory

As the Ukrainian site Mignews.com.ua reported, a plane of one of the Baltic airlines crashed 30 kilometers far from Kiev today. The aircraft was making a charter flight. There was no connection with the plane for about an hour. Ukrainian rescuers found the crashed jet in the Kiev region.

The site informed that the plane was on its commercial flight to Kiev, it belonged to one of the airlines of the Baltic region. One man has reportedly died, the number of victims is not known yet.

Other sources reject the fact that there were victims in the plane crash. ForUm site informed that it was Cessna-172 plane. The plane was making a charter flight from Rovno to the Zhulyany airport of Kiev. The plane disappeared from radar screens, but later it became known that the plane had to perform an emergency landing 30 kilometers far from the point of its destination. It was said that no one died during the emergency landing, although there were some people injured.

Magnolia-TV site said that the plane belonged to the Lithuanian airline Lima Yanki. One of the passengers has been reportedly hospitalized in a relatively hard condition. The pilot and another passenger were slightly injured. The site also said that the reason of the emergency landing was an engine malfunction.

Translated by Dmitry Sudakov

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