Officials said emergency crews responded to the scene after the aircraft went down around 11:20 a.m.; it was not immediately clear whether there were any injuries.
A Soviet spacecraft built in 1972 to land on Venus finally made its landing 53 years later, on 10 May 2025 — except it came down on Earth, carried through a fiery reentry intact by the same titanium shell its engineers had built to survive the hottest planet in the solar system.
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