[DefenceBlog] A prototype of the newest Russian IL-112V military light transport aircraft crashed during a flight in Kubinka outside Moscow.
The incident occurred during a training flight at the Kubinka air base. The cause of the crash is unknown.
Eyewitnesses report that the plane caught fire shortly before the crash.
All three crew members on board were killed when the Il-112V went down on Aug. 17. More at the link including a video of the last seconds of the flight
It turns out that the Afghan Super Tucano in reality collided with the Uzbekistan MiG-29 and both aircraft crashed.. Overall 22 military aircraft and 24 military helicopters with 585 armed servicemen flew from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan on August 14-15.https://t.co/CoLLsjKNok
An Afghan Air Force plane crashed last night in Surxondaryo, Uzbekistan and two people were recovered from the plane in wounded condition. They have been shifted to medical facility by Uzbek authorities. It is believed that they were trying to escape from Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/5TclTck3DL
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
