Three out of six people injured in a fire on board of a Russian military aircraft that crash landed on Wednesday at an airport in the east of Prague were discharged from a hospital, Czech news agency CTK reported on Friday.
The Antonov An-30 aircraft with 23 servicemen on board - 14 Russians and nine Czechs - skidded off the runway after its nosewheel collapsed on landing at the Caslav Military Airport. Then the fire erupted at the aircraft.
The agency said that the discharged patients are all Russians, while two more Russian officers and one Czech military serviceman remain in hospitals as they sustained severe burns.
The twin-engine turboprop aircraft was carrying out an Open Skies surveillance flight.
The Open Skies Treaty, signed in 1992 on an initiative of U.S. President George H.W. Bush, established a regime of unarmed aerial observation flights over the territories of its 34 member states to promote openness and the transparency of military forces and activities.
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