Russian authorities are investigating the crash of a light aircraft that killed four people near the village of Lesnoye in Russia’s Far Eastern Khabarovsk region.
Russia’s emergency services said that they were still investigating whether the crash during a training flight early on April 18 was the result of a technical failure or pilot error.
Local officials in the Khabarovsk region said three of the people killed in the crash had been in the plane.
They said the body of a fourth victim was found at the crash site beneath the plane’s debris.
Authorities said on April 18 that they were still trying to confirm the identities of all the victims.
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