on the night of March 19 at the airport of Rostov-on-Don route from Dubai crashed plane Boeing 737 airline FlyDubai. The crash killed all 62 people aboard. According to preliminary data, the cause of the incident could be severe weather conditions.
The aircraft Boeing 737-800, en route flight FZ981, took off from the airport in Dubai on March 18 the. According to the schedule, he was due to arrive in Rostov-on-Don at about 1:40 Moscow time. The flight was nominally and took about four hours, which is considered normal time to perform such flight.
However, according flightradar24 site that tracks real-time movement of aircraft, land could not be the first attempt to pilots, and then formally they went to the second round. This fact, according to the site, the liner had to hover over the city for about two hours, during this time making a full ten rounds.
The reason for waiting, is reported to have become severe weather conditions in the vicinity of the airport. There was observed a fine rain and gusty wind speeds of up to 22 meters per second, and the visibility was about three and a half kilometers. As a result, a second attempt to land the crew has taken about half three in the morning.
According to the crew who are in negotiations with the network manager, technical problems on board the ship was not. The aircraft commander was calm, had received from the controller with all necessary information for landing and said he starts landing. Then he decided to go to the second round.
“completely destroyed”
So far it is not known exactly what happened with the aircraft during landing . Russia’s Investigative Committee said that the plane was completely destroyed immediately after it hit the ground. However, the Ministry did not specify whether it was on the strip or next to it, and how the plane hit the ground.
The original sources of news agencies reported that during landing airliner wing caught the ground and tail. Subsequently began to appear unofficial information. according to which the aircraft could have a height of about 100-200 meters to go to the peak and crash into the ground almost at a right angle.
According to experts, this could happen if the pilot when trying to go to the second round too sharply pulled up the nose airliner that these planes leads to loss of speed and stall into a dive. At the same time no official confirmation of this version does not.
The network has made with surveillance cameras near the airport video, which shows that the liner was reduced at high speed and exploded immediately after hitting the ground. At the same time due to the low quality is difficult to understand how it was controlled reduction and what is part of the fuselage hit the ground plane.
The information about the crash site as contradictory. At first it was reported that the plane crashed into the ground a few hundred meters from the runway, but then it was reported that he hit the strip itself. Most of the photographs the wreckage are also made on the strip.
One of the two flight recorders of the crashed airliner have found. At the same time is not specified, about what exactly recorder – voice and parametric – in question, as well as the condition of the “black box”
Day of Mourning
<. p> According to recent data, on board the aircraft were 55 passengers and seven crew members. Of the 44 passengers were Russians, and eight – Ukrainians. Also among them were two citizens of India and one citizen of Uzbekistan. liner crew was international. He commanded them Cypriot. It is also confirmed that the crew included one Russian.
Among the dead was the deputy of the regional Legislative Assembly Igor Pakus and his wife. It was also reported that, in a plane crash killed the wife and daughter of the head of the Azov district of Rostov region Valery Berzyuka. Their names journalists found in the published Russian Emergencies Ministry list of the dead.
According to Federal Tourism Agency, most of the passengers were tourists. In particular, the agency has revealed that on board were at least 30 people who have bought tickets at one of the largest Russian tour operator “Natalie Tours”. Now Rosturizm specifies whether the passengers were clients of other travel companies.
About 600 relatives and friends of the victims arrived in the Rostov airport. They work EMERCOM psychologists. The regional authorities have already ordered to pay the families of the crash victims compensation in the amount of one million rubles. In addition, the governor of the region Vasily Golubev announced March 20 a day of mourning.
Rostov Airport will be closed for at least a day. Now all of the following in his flights redirected to other cities, including in Krasnodar and Moscow.
Not a terrorist act
The Russian investigative authorities filed on the fact of incident criminal case under the article on violation of safety rules and operation of air transport, which caused the deaths. It provides up to seven years in prison.
For the investigation of the case formed a special investigation team, reinforced by investigators from the central office of the Investigative Committee of Russia and experts with experience of the investigation of accidents.
The official representative of the Investigative Vladimir Committee Markin did not elaborate whether there is in fact suspected. The department also noted that considering different versions of what happened.
The investigation report states that the cause of the accident could be pilot error, bad weather, technical failure, and other factors. At the same time, the version of the attack is not considered.
In turn, the experts can not understand why two o’clock plane circled over the city and tried to land in difficult conditions, when he could just leave the alternate.
in particular, as did the plane of “Aeroflot”, which also failed the first time to sit in Rostov.
The first catastrophe
The airline FlyDubai was established in 2008. Its fleet consists of 49 Boeing 737-800 aircraft, with an average age of just three and a half years.
The crashed Boeing 737-800 aircraft was released in 2010, and at the same time made its first flight. FlyDubai was his first and only owner and operator.
Flights FZ981 and FZ982 in Rostov-on-Don and from the company performs about twice a week. At the same time the plane crashed with the registration A6-FDN number, according to the portal flightradar24, performing this flight for the first time recently. On Friday, he made a flight from Dubai to Kiev and back, and before that he worked mainly on domestic flights in the UAE.
The plane crash was the first to FlyDubai in its history. The company expressed its condolences to the relatives of the victims and promised to send to Russia’s own experts, so they help in the investigation.
About the readiness to cooperate in establishing the circumstances of the incident reported and the company Boeing.
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