Until the final official establishment of all the circumstances and causes of the crash of the AN-26Sh aircraft, Major General Oleksandr Turinsky, by order of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, was suspended from his duties as the head of the Kharkiv National University of the Air Force named after Ivan Kozhedub.

This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense.

The work of the commission of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on the technical investigation of the crash of the AN-26Sh aircraft in the Kharkiv region and the government commission headed by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Strategic Industries Oleg Urusky continues.

Recall that the disaster occurred almost a month ago - September 25. And all this time Turinsky did not submit a resignation letter.

Oleksiy Kucher The Government Commission to Investigate the AN-26 disaster has established the causes of the accident. After establishing the reasons, the commission completes its work.

This was stated by the head of the commission, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Strategic Industries Oleg Urusky.

He noted that on Thursday, October 22, the commission approved a preliminary report on the results of the investigation. This document will be made public at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on October 28.

Urusky named the main causes of the disaster, which the commission was able to establish.

" This means from the command of the Air Force to the brigade where this tragedy occurred, "

According to him, both the main causes of the disaster and indirect. So, among a number of reasons there are both pilot errors and technical malfunctions of the aircraft, namely, the failure of the PRT-24 system (system of "

Uruski noted that this technical malfunction led to an abnormal situation on board, but should not have led to a plane crash.. At the same time, the human factor played an important role..

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We will remind, on the evening of September 25 in Chuguev, the military plane AN-26 crashed. On board there were 27 people: officers and cadets of the Kharkiv National Air Force University. Only one cadet survived.

Recall, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Iryna Vereshchuk said during a briefing on September 30 that the committee plans to convey to law enforcement officers information about possible systemic violations at the Kharkiv National University of the Air Force named after. Kozhedub, which took place before the An-26Sh disaster.

“We have our own specific developments and information that came to our deputies, we will summarize them - and we will turn to the RRB with a letter in which we will write down our questions regarding certain areas in which the commission operates today.. And the information that we have, we will provide it too. We have a subcommittee chairman (on defense industry and technical modernization - ed.. ) Igor Kopytin, who is engaged in this work, and even before the disaster there was evidence that there are systemic violations in the KhNUVS, he has now presented them to the committee, and this will also be included in the case as additional information, ”Vereshchuk said.