Water bomber Crash Turkey
 

News coming through a bombardier has crashed in turkey

So far only foreign language sites reporting it, nothing yet in English

https://www.leprogres.fr/amp/faits-d...%3A%20%251%24s

Russian RF-88450

The headline says 'un avion bombardier d'eau', could be wrong, early days yet

Russian military , reports russian defence.

Crew 6 Russian + 2 Turkish

Fire Fighting Be200 crash
 

Russian Navy operated Be200, built 2019, named Alexander Mamkin.

Any idea what the grey object is that can be seen at the end of the video above the crash site?

markers on power lines

Fire suppression? What ops were they doing and why was the video taker interested? Looks like a water drop (not retardant) occurred at apprx. 0.29min, but where is the fire activity?
Best wishes but pessimism for the crew. Fire suppression is a dangerous theatre for crews, such an important role needs more tech help.

A “flash” of light on the hillside at the 33second mark - looks like live powerlines hitting the ground ?

Sadly, no survivors.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8c05a75b1c.jpg

No survivors of firefighting plane crash in southern Turkey - Turkey News (hurriyetdailynews.com)

Why would you need 8 crew.

May have been a training flight. 4 pilots 2 Russian, 2 Turks = 4 plus FLIR operator ( perhaps 2). = 6 plus perhaps a flight engineer = 7 plus a translator = 8. Just speculation on my part.
A tragic event in any case.

the Beriev Be200 usually operates with 2 pilots and 3 additional crew members while on a mission:
- Pilot
- Co-Pilot
- Navigator
- Flight Engineer
- AMSS
thus there were a full 5 Russian crew + three Turkish guys from Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Aeronautical Association on board.

Detail of the crash site
 

From the video in this article, the aircraft impacted steeply rising terrain in the centre of a gully.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1902652.html

Sad news, those Russian pilots are really quite brave.

I was caught in the thick of it in the great fires in Greece during 2007 where the Be-200 was tasked to assist.

Unfortunately it flew too fast to load up in choppy seas and just couldn't drop water from low enough levels in mountainous terrain to be effective, it was sent back as the Canadair CLs proved to be extremely precise. On a positive note, the Be-200 did look like it could deliver a quite a punch 100s km inland on flat terrain in minutes over and over again, much faster than a lumbering CL straining itself at max weight.