Earlier, eyewitnesses posted on social networks photos of smoke columns near the airfield of the military flight school, located on the outskirts of the Kuban capital. Also, residents mentioned a loud sound like a loud bang.
The regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations said that the fire occurred in a field, outside the territory of a military school. No other incidents have been recorded at this location.
The press service of the Krasnodar administration suggested that the source of the loud bang could be the flight of a training jet aircraft at the time of transition to supersonic mode.