Su-30 military plane crashed in Karelia: why is it a "failure" for the Russian aviation, - analysts

One of the previous versions of the accident was a pilot error. Witnesses of the event said that they saw an uncontrollable plane rushing to the ground in a steep dive. "Today at around 19:00 Moscow time in the Republic of Karelia, during a scheduled training flight, the Su-30 plane crashed. The plane crashed in a deserted area. The flight was carried out without ammunition," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a comment dated November 13.

Regional observers reported that the plane performed aerobatics before the crash. According to them, the aircraft "suddenly lost altitude and fell in a few seconds", and the descent was too fast for the crew to regain control. Immediately after the incident, the accident area was surrounded by emergency response units. Local residents said that they heard a loud bang, after which emergency vehicles rushed to the crash site.

Investigators are considering two main versions of the event: technical malfunction or pilot error. However, there are no official conclusions of the investigation yet. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation does not announce the names of the dead pilots and does not reveal whether there was any external equipment on board. The only comment for rosZMI is a brief statement that "a Russian Su-30 fighter jet crashed in Karelia.

" "Both versions are often considered during the investigation of Russian military aviation disasters, especially in conditions of increasing load on the country's air fleet due to high rates of exploitation," Western experts emphasize, commenting on the information that the Su-30 fighter jet crashed in Russia.

For their part, the analysts of the Oryx monitoring group, based exclusively on visually confirmed data, report that since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, Russia has lost about 15 Su-30SM aircraft. Aviation navigator of the Russian Armed Forces Ilya Tumanov confirmed the incident with the Su-30 and the death of the crew on the Fighterbomber channel: there is no information about the causes of the accident.