This aircraft has the ability to transport up to 60 tons of cargo in the direction of up to 4200 km. It is usually used to transport military equipment.
On the night of October 19-20, an Il-76MD military aircraft caught fire at the military airport on the outskirts of Dushanbe. Video footage of the plane fire was sent by Radio Ozodi users. According to the users of Radio Ozodi, this incident happened at the airport of Hisar, close to Aini airport.
Radio Ozodi’s efforts to get the opinion of the Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan did not work, on October 21, no one answered the phone of the press office of this ministry. Official Russian media have not published anything about it either.
However, according to the Baza Telegram channel , which is close to Russian power sources, a fire broke out at a military airport on the outskirts of the Tajik capital on Thursday night. According to this source, the Il-76MD military and transport plane belonging to Russia caught fire while trying to take off from the ground.
This source wrote that, according to preliminary information, a wheel of the plane caught fire during the fast movement in order to rise from the ground, and then the fire broke out. The plane left the airfield and was completely burnt, writes Baza.
According to this source, 8 people who were inside the plane when the fire started were not injured.
It is not clear how the passengers managed to escape from the burning plane.
Il-76, which started flying in 1971, is one of the first solid military and transport aircraft of the USSR and was built by the Ilyushin Design Bureau. During the Soviet era, these planes were continuously produced at the Chkalov Aircraft Factory in Tashkent, and after 2010, the factory moved to Ulyanovsk, Russia.
This aircraft can carry up to 60 tons of cargo on a route of up to 4200 kilometers. It is usually used to transport military equipment.
The 201st military base of Russia operates in Tajikistan, and based on an intergovernmental agreement, its military aircraft and helicopters, among other things, have the right to use Tajik military bases.
Source : Радио Озоди