Two pilots killed as Russian fighter jet crashes into Siberian home - Reuters

IRKUTSK, Russia, Oct 23 (Reuters) - A Russian subject pitchy crashed into a residential gathering successful the Siberian metropolis of Irkutsk connected Sunday and the 2 pilots were killed, officials said, the 2nd specified fatal incidental successful six days involving a Sukhoi combatant plane.

In a station connected Telegram, Irkutsk politician Igor Kobzev said the level crashed into a two-storey location successful the city. He published a video showing firefighters clambering implicit the wreckage and directing jets of h2o astatine the inactive smouldering rubble.

No 1 connected the crushed was hurt, the politician said.

Officials said the level was a Sukhoi Su-30 combatant connected a trial flight. Last Monday, a Sukhoi Su-34 crashed into an flat artifact successful the confederate metropolis of Yeysk, adjacent Ukraine, and astatine slightest 15 radical were killed.

Authorities said archetypal probe of that catastrophe - successful which the pilots ejected - pointed to a method malfunction of the aircraft.

Videos of Sunday's incident, shared connected societal media, showed the level dived astir vertically earlier crashing successful a fireball, sending dense achromatic fume into the sky. Kobzev said 150 adjacent homes were without energy and enactment was nether mode to reconstruct power.

Russia's authorities Investigative Committee said it had launched a transgression probe into violations of aerial information rules.

Reporting by Jake Cordell and Mark Trevelyan, Editing by William Maclean

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