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Moscow: A Russian military cargo plane crashed on Friday during a training flight after refueling about 200 km southeast of Moscow, killing five crew members and injuring several others, reports said officials.

The Il-76 heavy cargo plane crashed in the Ryazan region after suffering an engine problem that forced the crew of 10 to crash. The plane, carrying no cargo, was flying from Belgorod to Orenburg, Russian news agency Tass reported.

The regional administration first said four crew members died and five others were injured when the plane hit a power line and slammed into a field just outside the city of Ryazan after flying refuel at a local air base. Tass later reported that one of the injured had died.

The video showed at least one charred engine separated from the fuselage lying on a green meadow near woods, a highway and houses. Pieces of the plane were strewn across the meadow, some in flames.

The four-engined Il-76 was designed in the 1970s and served as the primary heavy-lift cargo aircraft for the Soviet and Russian air forces. Many other countries also used the aircraft.

Across Russia, in eastern Siberia, rescuers searched a vast territory near Yakutsk on Friday for another cargo plane, an An-2 that disappeared from radar on Wednesday.

Tass said the plane was carrying two crew members and a passenger, as well as a ton of cargo.

The plane’s distress beacons reportedly failed so its whereabouts were unknown, and the mountainous terrain complicated the search, which was conducted by helicopter, the news agency said.

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