Eyewitnesses on plane crash in residential Yeysk
(19 Oct 2022) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ++PLEASE NOTE: AP IS OPERATING IN RUSSIAN-CONTROLLED REGIONS ACCORDING TO RUSSIAN RESTRICTIONS ON ALL REPORTING RELATED TO THE ONGOING MILITARY OPERATION IN UKRAINE++ ASSOCIATED PRESS Yeysk - 19 October 2022 1. Wide of burnt apartment building, cars driving by 2. Various of burnt and destroyed apartments 3. Emergency workers at the building 4. People at the cordoned off street 6. Mid of burnt apartment building, people outside 7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Irina Naumenko, apartment building resident and eyewitness: "Ninth floor. I came… I stood at the loggia and saw the plane flying by. I thought I was seenig things, it can't be! So close, at the window level. I (looked outside) and that was it, rumble, explosions and flames." 8. Doctors helping woman 9. Close of woman crying 10. Wide of people alongside ambulance 11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Irina Kondratovich, apartment building resident and eyewitness: "We thought that they were bombing us. That was our first impression. And when we ran outside, (we saw) a parachute lying here and so on, lots of people. So we ran out in about five or seven minutes (after the crash)." 12. Woman laying flowers at memorial to the victims 13. Close up of memorial reading (Russian) "Yeysk. 17.10.2022. We remember. We mourn." 14. Close of toys 15. Man laying flowers 16. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Viktor Babenko, local resident: "I'm a neighbour. My son was at school at that time, 100 meters away, and our house is 200 meters away (from crash site). It's a miracle that the plane didn't crash on the school and our house." 17. Woman laying flowers 18. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yekaterina Beryoza, local resident: "Everyone mourns. Because many of our people have suffered, not all of them severely, but anyway." 19. Wide of memorial 20. Close of flowers STORYLINE: The death toll from the crash of a Russian warplane into a Russian city rose to 15 on Tuesday, including three people who died when they jumped from a nine-story apartment building to escape a massive blaze, authorities said. The Su-34 bomber came down on Monday in the Sea of Azov port city of Yeysk after one of its engines caught fire during takeoff for a training mission, the Russian Defense Ministry said. It said both crew members bailed out safely, but the plane crashed into a residential area, igniting a huge fire as tons of fuel exploded on impact. "I stood at the loggia and saw the plane flying by. I thought I was seeng things, it can't be! So close, at the window level," Irina Naumenko, a local resident, told The Associated Press on Wednesday. After hours of combing through the charred debris, authorities said 14 people, including three children, were found dead. Another 19 were hospitalized with injuries, and one of them died of severe burns at a local hospital, bringing the death toll to 15, said Anna Minkova, a vice governor of the region. Emergency workers are expected to finish clearing the debris on Wednesday. According to preliminary estimates, the apartment building can be restored and there is no threat of its collapse, regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev said. Yeysk, a city of 90,000, is home to a large Russian air base. The Su-34 is a supersonic twin-engine bomber equipped with sophisticated sensors and weapons that has been a key strike component of the Russian air force. The aircraft has seen wide use during the war in Syria and the fighting in Ukraine. =========================================================== Clients are reminded: Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
