CNN —Three Ukrainian pilots, including a well-known pilot who went by the call sign “Juice,” have died in a plane crash, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Saturday.
The incident occurred on Friday, August 25, near the city of Zhytomyr, about 140 kilometers (87 miles) west of Kyiv.
In an interview last year with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Juice said he got his nickname during a trip to the United States.
He said his friends came up with the nickname, because he doesn’t drink alcohol and was always asking for juice instead.
The circumstances of the crash are being investigated by the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine (SBI).
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