
Sknyliv tragedy
2002, 27 min
ATTENTION: THE MATERIAL CONTAINS SENSITIVE SHOTS!
Air show at the Sknyliv airfield. The moment the plane fell. Explosion. Traumatized people. The dead Medics and soldiers take away the bodies. People are crying, women are sitting on the grass.
Airplane wreckage. They are examined by investigators.
President Leonid Kuchma, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Lytvyn, Chairman of the Presidential Administration Viktor Medvechuk and Chairman of the Lviv Regional State Administration Myron Yankiv arrive at the airport.
Video from the hospital. Reception department. They bring the injured. Kuchma is talking to medics. The doctor talks about the condition of people.
Morgue. People are waiting to be admitted for identification.
Hospital. The injured talk about what they remember about the air show and the plane crash.
Departure in the church.
As a result of the fall of the Su-27 fighter during the air show at the Sknyliv airport, 77 people died (among them 28 children), and about 250 people were injured.