"An-12 and An-26 transport planes, carrying special equipment for determining coordinates, took off from airfields in Kazakhstan’s Jezkazgan and Karaganda, heading to the presumed landing zone of the Soyuz MS-18 reentry capsule," the statement says.
The director general of Russia’s space corporation Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, and the CEO of Russia's TV Channel One, Konstantin Ernst are headed to the Soyuz MS-18 landing site aboard a helicopter.