"The plane was destroyed and burned to ashes, efforts are underway to extinguish the fire," he told TASS Russian News Agency.
The United Aircraft Corporation (part of the Rostec state corporation) said in a statement earlier that an Il-112V advanced light military transport aircraft had crashed during landing after a training flight near the Kubinka airfield.
"Rostec is creating an internal commission involving experts from aircraft research facilities and factories in order to investigate the causes of the Il-112V plane crash," a spokesman for the Corporation said, adding that the aircraft was undergoing trials.
A technical malfunction and a pilot error are considered as the possible causes of the crash, the source pointed out.
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