A Russian MIG-31 fighter plane has crashed in the Murmansk region after catching fire, according to the official Russian news agency TASS and Reuters. “During a planned flight, one of the MIG-31’s engines caught fire, after which it crashed,” military sources told TASS. According to preliminary data, the fighter fell into a lake.
For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed the accident, but not the fire, and has assured that the pilots were saved, since they were ejected from the plane and were rescued by a helicopter. The Russian command has indicated that it was a training flight. According to his version, the impact against the surface occurred “in an uninhabited area.”
Images shared by various accounts on Twitter show how the burning fighter rushes to the surface. The Murmansk region, located in the extreme northwest of Russia, is close to the border with Norway and Finland.
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