Watan-The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the crash of a military cargo plane carrying 15 people on board after taking off from an airport in northeast Moscow.

A statement from the ministry via Telegram stated that “a military transport plane of the IL-76 model crashed in the Ivanovo region.”

The statement clarified that the crash occurred after the military plane took off on a previously scheduled flight with 8 crew members and 7 passengers on board.

Regarding the reason for the Russian plane crash, the ministry explained that it was due to a fire erupting in one of its engines, with news reports indicating that there were no survivors.

A Il-76 cargo plane has crashed in Russia. 15 people on board have died pic.twitter.com/sqbPjULwSN

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Video clips circulated on social media showed the plane crashing with flames erupting from one of its engines.

A column of black smoke was seen rising in the sky as a helicopter hovered in the air, as reported by abcnews and observed by Watan.