Photo: Still from video.
The network has footage from the first interrogation of the pilot of the Ukrainian Aeroprakt A-22 “Flying Fox” plane, which made an emergency landing in the Bryansk region and was detained by Russian border guards. Earlier, the Russian FSB reported that the plane had crashed near the settlement of Butovsk. The pilot of the plane tried to escape on Ukrainian territory, but was detained by border guards.
The detained pilot, who turned out to be an elderly man, according to the Mash Telegram channel, said that he was accompanied by another civilian plane. The man claims that he was tasked with photographing the area and checking the work of the Ukrainian Air Force, but he did not know that he was flying over Russian territory. At the same time, the pilot received a bulletproof vest and a machine gun.
He also stated that his navigation devices were turned off during the long-distance flight and promised to pay 50 thousand hryvnias (more than 108 thousand rubles – Ed.) to work.
p>Noticing that the propeller had malfunctioned, the pilot made an emergency landing, before burying weapons, ammunition and body armor so that his own people would not fire on him, allegedly. However, he was later detained by border guards.
The Aeroprakt A-22 “Flying Fox” is a two-seater ultralight aircraft developed by the Ukrainian company Aeroprakt under the leadership of Yuriy Yakovlev in the 1990s. The maximum range is 580 km at a maximum speed of 220 km/h.