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Flight operations director of military unit in case of AN-26 crash in Kharkiv region arrested

Published Dec. 23, 2020 at 9:43 am

Servicemen cover the coffins of cadets of the Kharkiv National Air Force University who died in an Antonov An-26 transport plane crash with Ukrainian flags during a farewell ceremony at the central square in Kharkiv on Oct. 6, 2020. The crash killed 26 of the 27 people onboard.

Photo by AFP

The court has chosen a measure of restraint in the form of custody detention to the head of the military unit’s flights within the framework of the suspicion on the case of the AN-26 crash in Kharkiv region.

“The flight operations director has been chosen a measure of restraint in the form of uncontested detention,” the SBI told the Interfax-Ukraine agency on Tuesday evening.