Ukraine stated Friday that at least one person died and 2 had been injured while a transport plane crashed over the center of the states, the incident regarding twist of fate-prone Soviet-era aircraft.

“An AN-26 plane, which in line with initial statistics belonged to Ukraine, crashed within the vicinity of Mikhailovka within the Zaporizhzhia area,” the region’s management wrote in an announcement on social media.

“The aircraft was performing a technical flight. It has been established that one person was killed and two more were injured.”

Crew numbers and the cause of the crash were being investigated, the statement added.

The Soviet-designed Antonov aircraft, still widely used in military and civilian aviation across Russia and the former USSR, crash regularly.

In February, a Russian Antonov AN-26 transport carrying military equipment came down in the southern Voronezh region near Ukraine, killing all crew members on board.

Two dozen people including military cadets were killed in September 2020, when a Ukranian AN-26 plane went down near Kharkiv in the east of the country.

In 2018, an AN-26 transport plane crashed when landing in Russia’s Hmeimim airbase in Syria. All 39 servicemen on board died.

The central Zaporizhzhia administration claimed that  Friday the plane may have hit electrical wires, setting the engines on fire.

It stated rescue workers were on the scene.