Status: 23/08/2023, 21:26 p.m.
By: Thomas Kemmerer
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Embraer business jet Legacy 600 has been sold almost 300 times worldwide. The photograph shows the plane of the Serbian government. © Manfred Segerer/Imago
An Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft crashed near Moscow. What you need to know about the jet in which mercenary chief Prigozhin is said to have perished.
Moscow – Shortly after take-off from Moscow, a private jet with two pilots and six passengers crashed on Wednesday: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the dreaded head of the Russian mercenary force Wagner, is said to be among the dead. This is reported by Russian media. What was that plane that fell from the sky?
The footage from the crash site shows the remains of an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet – an aircraft that was not manufactured in Russia.
Prigozhin crashed? This is the Embraer Legacy 600
The Legacy 600 is a business jet produced by the Brazilian manufacturer Embraer. The first machine took off in 2001. Until the crash near Moscow, there had never been an incident in which the occupants of an Embraer Legacy 600 were killed. The Embraer Legacy 600 is a variant of the Embraer ERJ 145 passenger jet, which is mainly used in North and South America on short-haul flights. The aircraft is powered by two jet engines, which are located on the tail unit of the machine. While the passenger version can accommodate up to 50 passengers, the Legacy 600 is designed for a maximum of 14 passengers.
Embraer Legacy 600: Key Specs
Top speed: 850 km/h
Range: maximum 6,300 kilometers
Crew: 2 pilots
Passengers: up to 14
Length: 26.33 meters
Wingspan: 21.17 meters
Height: 6.64 meters
This is Embraer, the manufacturer of the downed Prigozhin's Legacy 600 jet
Embraer was founded in 1969 as a state-owned Brazilian aviation group to manufacture aircraft for its own air force. With the know-how they had built up, the Brazilians ventured into the development of short-haul aircraft for civil aviation in the following years. Long underestimated, Embraer successfully competed with Western manufacturers such as ATR or Bombardier. In 1994, the state-owned company was privatized and is now traded on the stock exchange. Numerous Embraer jets are now also flying in Europe. Among other things, Lufthansa uses the Embraer 190 and Embraer 195 on short-haul routes. (kem)