An Su-30 jet crashes into houses in Siberia after pilots ‘suffocate in cockpit’

A Russian Su-30 crashed into houses in Siberia on Sunday after the pilots ‘suffocated in the cockpit’ killing two in the 11th non-combat collision since February. 

The warplane crashed into the residential building in Irkutsk but there were no casualties on the ground.  

The city’s governor Igor Kobzev said the plane came down on a private two-storey building housing two families.

State-controlled United Aircraft Corporation said a plane came down during a training flight before its delivery to the air force. 

A Russian Su-30 crashed into houses in a Siberian city on Sunday after the pilots ‘suffocated in the cockpit’ killing two in the 11th non-combat collision since February

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The warplane crashed into the residential building in Irkutsk on Sunday and there were no casualties on the ground

The city’s governor Igor Kobzev said the plane came down on a private, two-storey building housing two families

State-controlled United Aircraft Corporation said a plane came down during a training flight before its delivery to the air force. Russian fighter jet crashes into Siberian houses killing both pilots

An official probe has begun into why the plane crashed. 

A surveillance cam video posted on Russian social networks showed the fighter diving towards the ground almost vertically. 

Other footage showed the building engulfed by flames and firefighters deployed to extinguish the blaze.

Sunday’s crash was the 11th reported non-combat crash of a Russian warplane since Moscow sent its troops into Ukraine on February 24.

Military experts have noted that as the number of Russian military flights increased sharply during the fighting, so did the crashes.

Irkutsk, a major industrial centre of more than 600,000 in eastern Siberia, is home to an aircraft factory producing the Su-30s.

The Su-30 is a supersonic twin-engine, two-seat fighter that has been a key component of the Russian air force and also has been used by China, India and many other countries.

Meanwhile separate footage has shown the final seconds of another Russian warplane crashing into an apartment block 

Moscow claims the Su-34 had a technical malfunction and forced two pilots into a parachute landing.

Meanwhile separate footage has shown the final seconds of another Russian warplane crashing into an apartment block. 

Moscow claims the Su-34 had a technical malfunction and forced two pilots into a parachute landing. 

Russia says both men survived the horror on 18 October and were treated in hospital.   

Statistics reveal 15 people died and 26 were injured from the nine storey apartment block. 

So far 16 remain in hospital.