The commander of air display team "Russian Heroes" Igor Tkachenko died as a result of collision of planes in the sky over Zhukovsky situated near Moscow, information centre of air group of aerobatics "Strizhy" informs. As they say in the message, plane Su-27 with Tkachenko and Igor Kurilenko on board collided with Su-27 with Vitaly Melnik. Tkachenko died after ejection, two other pilots are hospitalised. Accident with fighters Su-27 from air display group "Russian Heroes" took place over fly ground "Ramensky" where preparation for the International aerospace salon "MAX-2009" opening on Tuesday passes. Collision of cars occurred at the moment of re-forming of five planes from the group "Russian Heroes" over first bottom of the Moskva River outside the territory of air show.