Despite the crash of the first Il-112B model, work on the creation of a new light military transport aircraft in Russia will continue. Other machines that are in the process of fine-tuning at the Voronezh Aviation Plant will be involved in flight tests.
"After establishing the causes of the Il-112B disaster in the Moscow region, flight tests are planned to continue. It is planned to connect two boards in 2022 - No. 103 and No. 104, " TASS reports.
Recall that the plane crash occurred on August 17, one and a half kilometers from the Kubinka airfield. The newest military transport aircraft was piloted by a crew consisting of first-class test pilot, Hero of Russia Nikolai Kuimov, first-class test pilot Dmitry Komarov, and first-class flight engineer Nikolai Khludeev. All of them were killed, but they did not allow the burning car to fall on residential objects.
A criminal case has been opened on the fact of the accident.
It should also be noted that the IL-112B is the first military transport aircraft developed in Russia in the post-Soviet period. Work on its creation has been underway since 2014, and for the first time the car took to the air on March 30, 2019.
The IL-112B aircraft is designed to replace the morally and technically obsolete An-26. The key advantage of the aircraft should be the possibility of autonomous operation from unequipped airfields and unpaved lanes.
The length of the new transport is 24.15 meters, the height is 8.89 meters, the wingspan is 27.15 meters. The maximum take-off weight is 21 thousand kilograms, the maximum payload is five tons. Cruising speed-up to 500 kilometers per hour. The maximum flight altitude is 7.6 thousand meters. The crew consists of two people.
Nikolay Grishchenko
