MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. The Russian Defense Ministry rejected reports on Thursday about the preliminary causes for a Sukhoi Su-33 fighter jet’s crash during its landing on the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov in the Mediterranean.

The newspaper Kommersant reported earlier on Thursday that the commission investigating this incident considered a pilot error as the likely cause for the crash.

"The information of the newspaper Kommersant on allegedly preliminary conclusions of the commission investigating the causes of the Su-33 fighter jet’s crash absolutely have nothing to do with reality," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.