Military aviation flights not to be cancelled at July 3 parade

"Everything that has been planned remains unchanged. There will be flights, preparation of aviation etc.", - says head of the Ministry's press-center Uladzimir Makarau. 


Let us remind you, a SU-25 plane crashed in Navahradak district on June 12. The plane belonged to aviation base 116 and was used for training navigation at a low altitude.  The pilot started losing control of the plane at about 3.36 p.m. Colonel Mikalai Hrydnyou, 1st class pilot, was ordered to catapult but he decided to fly way from the inhabited locality and died. A commission of the Ministry of Defense is investigating the accident.


The Ministry of Defense does not comment on the information according to which the SU-25 flights were connected with preparation of the July 3 parade.