Saturday, March 19, 2016

The accident in Rostov-on-Don: What is known about the fall of the Dubai Tour – RBC

ambulance at the airport of Rostov-on-Don

Photo: Valery Matytsin / TASS

on the morning of March 19, when landing at the airport of Rostov-on-Don crashed Boeing 737. None of those on board He survived. In the MOE as a preliminary causes of the weather conditions called the incident
 

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Boeing 737-800 airline flydubai performing flight FZ-981 from Dubai to Rostov-on-Don. On board were 55 passengers and seven crew members, according to the MOE. The crew and five passengers were foreigners.

The accident occurred at 3:43 MSK, he told the TV channel “Russia 24″ Advisor to the Minister of Transport Jeanne Terekhova. According to “Interfax” referring to the interlocutor in the emergency services at the time the airport was working on the actual weather because of the strong wind. “The plane circled before landing at the airport in order to choose the moment for a touchdown between the strong gusts of wind. And at the time of the second approach touched, presumably land, then collapsed, “- said the source agency. On the weather conditions and the agency refers to air traffic control. From the data of weather reports, which leads Tass, it follows that at the time of the disaster gusts reached 22 m / s, was light rain. The height of the cloud base of 540 m, the horizontal visibility -. 6 km

According to Terekhova, the Transport Ministry experts are considering several versions of what happened, including bad weather and possible pilot error. Later, the Governor of Rostov Region Vasily Golubev said that the plane came in to land from the city of Aksai and fell 253 meters from the runway. The basic version of the incident head of the region called the hurricane gusts. This information was confirmed by the Minister of Emergency Situations Viktor Yatsutsenko center: the plane fell to the left of the runway in poor visibility conditions. The representative of the Federal Air Transport Agency declined to comment, promising to provide them later.

As the disaster movie that appeared on the Web, after contact with the ground the plane exploded.

Boeing 737-800

According to the portal Flight Radar, ship tried twice to go to the landing and while circling over the city. The flight was supposed to arrive in Rostov-on-Don at 1:20 MSK, but as a result spent the extra air for 2 hours. It also follows from the service information that crashed in Rostov-on-Don plane was released in 2010.

The city’s airport and the runway was in good condition, said the TV channel “Russia 24″ Governor Vasily Golubev. According to him, the airport was reconstructed in 2015. This information was confirmed to RBC Evgeny Chudnovsky, General Director of “Airports of Regions” holding (controlled by the “Renova” Viktor Vekselberg), which includes the airport in Rostov-on-Don. From other comments he has declined.

At the crash site with more than 740 rescue workers and 100 pieces of equipment, he said during a conference in Moscow, Minister of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov. If necessary, group of rescuers can be strengthened.

According to RBC spokesman Vladimir Markin TFR was a criminal case under article “Violation of safety rules and operation of air transport” (part 3 st.263 Criminal Code) . In turn, the source of “Interfax” in the emergency services said that the terrorist attack version is practically excluded. “This version is improbable or even impossible. it is not considered among the main reasons. There are technical things, probably, “- said the source agency. According to him, the pilots tried to land the ship at 1:35 MSK, but for some reason could not do it. “Then the plane was circling over the city, producing fuel, and about 3:30 tried to land”, – said the source

To investigate the causes of the crash experts joined Boeing Company and flydubai

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loukosterov flydubai was founded in 2008 by the government of Dubai and is part of Emirates Group structure with one of the largest Arab airline Emirates airlines. The owner of the Emirates Group is a Dubai government.

flydubai Air fleet consists of 50 aircraft Boeing 737-800, ordered in June 2008 at an air show in Farnborough. All planes were new. In 2014, the airline signed a contract for the supply of another 11 aircraft of the same class, as well as 75 aircraft of type Boeing 737 MAX 8.

At the end of 2015, flydubai revenue was $ 1.3 billion (an increase of 11 4% compared with 2014 year), net profit – $ 27.4 million (59.7% decrease). The company flies to 95 cities in 45 countries.

In Russia, flydubai operates since 2010 and flies to Moscow, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Ufa, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Mineralnye Vody, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod.

The company weekly carries more than 1,4 thousands of flights. In 2015 it carried 9.04 million passengers (up 24.9% compared to the year 2014). The number of passengers on the Russian direction has decreased by 22% last year

The tragedy in Rostov -. The first crash in the history of fly dubai. Until now she had two incidents. April 22, 2012 of flydubai aircraft, flying to Doha, nearly collided off the coast of Dubai with a liner of another budget airline Emirates – Air Arabia, flying to Istanbul. January 26, 2015 of flydubai aircraft, which was carrying 154 people, has come under fire on approach to the airport in Baghdad. The plane landed safely, none of the passengers needed help.

The previous plane crash

October 31, 2015 Airbus A321 of the company “Kogalymavia”, which was flying from Sharm el Sheikh to St Petersburg, crashed in the Sinai peninsula. On board were 224 people, all of them were killed. It claimed responsibility banned in Russia “Islamic state.” Later, in Moscow, confirmed the version of the terrorist attack on board the ship. According to the FSB, in the wreckage of the aircraft during the examination of traces of explosives were found. January 29, it became known that the Investigative Committee reclassified the case of A321 crash in the article “terrorist attack.”

On the night of October 21, 2014 in Moscow’s Vnukovo airport there was a plane crash that killed the head of the company Total Christophe de Margerie. His plane Falcon during acceleration on takeoff crashed into the snow machines. However, de Margerie killed three crew members, all of them were French

At the end of August 2015 the Investigation Committee published results of the investigation:. The main cause of the accident investigators called the collision of the aircraft with snow machines, which is left on the runway, breaking the rules. Additional factors that led to the collapse of the Falcon, according to investigators, were “violations of aviation regulations by the dispatchers.” September 19 Prosecutor General’s Office refused to confirm the indictment in the case.

November 17, 2013 at Kazan airport during landing crashed passenger plane Boeing 737 airline “Tatarstan”, en route flight from Moscow. As a result, the crash killed all 50 people who were on board – 44 passengers and six crew members. Among the victims of the crash was the son of the president of Tatarstan Irek Minnikhanov and the head of the republican Federal Security Service Alexander Antonov.

The causes of the crash, according to the findings of the International Aviation Committee, become non-functional safety management system in the airline system shortcomings in the work of the crew and the lack of control over the preparation of the crew.

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