2 die, 82 hurt in Russian plane crash
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December 6, 2010, Monday
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THE brother of a Russian regional leader was one of two passengers killed in a crash landing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport on Saturday that also injured 82 people, the Investigations Committee said yesterday.
The incident "lead to the death of two passengers, and 82 were hospitalized. Among the dead... (is) Gadzhimurad Magomedov," a statement on the Investigations Committee website said.
Magomedov, 49, is the brother of the president of Russia's Republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus, a restive, mostly Muslim province on the Caspian Sea.
Magomedov's and the other victim's bodies were flown to Dagestan's capital Makhachkala yesterday morning.
Three of the passengers hospitalized after the plane ran off the runway during an emergency landing, remained in serious condition, the Health Ministry reported on its website.
The Tupolev-154 airliner, operated by Dagestan Airlines and carrying 163 passengers and nine crew, crash landed nearly 30 minutes after taking off from Vnukovo airport when all three engines failed.
The Tu-154 plane was the same model that crashed in April killing Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and 90 others, raising concerns over Russia's aging aviation infrastructure.
Russia has launched an investigation into the accident for violations of transport safety rules and are looking into possible causes including crew error and technical failure.
The airline's general director, Mirza Omariev, told Ekho Moskvy radio that the plane went through repairs in 2009 and all equipment had been serviced.
Pictures showed the aircraft broken into three pieces, having slid off the runway and through trees.
Two engines failed on the passenger jet shortly after takeoff, and the plane made an emergency landing as its third engine cut out, skidding off the snowy runway and breaking apart, the investigations committee said in a website statement.
The cause of the engine failure was unclear, federal aviation agency spokesman Sergei Izvolsky said, but recent crashes involving the aging Tu-154 aircraft have prompted the Russian carrier Aeroflot to stop using it.
Officials said 155 people were aboard the Dagestan Airlines plane, but the Emergencies Ministry said on its website that the plane was carrying 168 passengers and eight crew. There were no explanations for the discrepancy.
The plane had taken off from another Moscow hub, Vnukovo Airport, and was en route to Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's southern region of Dagestan, officials said.
Izvolsky said the pilot received signals that engines had cut out about 80 kilometers into the flight at an altitude of 9,100 meters, and requested an emergency landing at Domodedovo, to the southeast of Moscow.
"The plane slid off the runway and, having hit uneven ground, broke up," the statement said.
The incident "lead to the death of two passengers, and 82 were hospitalized. Among the dead... (is) Gadzhimurad Magomedov," a statement on the Investigations Committee website said.
Magomedov, 49, is the brother of the president of Russia's Republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus, a restive, mostly Muslim province on the Caspian Sea.
Magomedov's and the other victim's bodies were flown to Dagestan's capital Makhachkala yesterday morning.
Three of the passengers hospitalized after the plane ran off the runway during an emergency landing, remained in serious condition, the Health Ministry reported on its website.
The Tupolev-154 airliner, operated by Dagestan Airlines and carrying 163 passengers and nine crew, crash landed nearly 30 minutes after taking off from Vnukovo airport when all three engines failed.
The Tu-154 plane was the same model that crashed in April killing Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and 90 others, raising concerns over Russia's aging aviation infrastructure.
Russia has launched an investigation into the accident for violations of transport safety rules and are looking into possible causes including crew error and technical failure.
The airline's general director, Mirza Omariev, told Ekho Moskvy radio that the plane went through repairs in 2009 and all equipment had been serviced.
Pictures showed the aircraft broken into three pieces, having slid off the runway and through trees.
Two engines failed on the passenger jet shortly after takeoff, and the plane made an emergency landing as its third engine cut out, skidding off the snowy runway and breaking apart, the investigations committee said in a website statement.
The cause of the engine failure was unclear, federal aviation agency spokesman Sergei Izvolsky said, but recent crashes involving the aging Tu-154 aircraft have prompted the Russian carrier Aeroflot to stop using it.
Officials said 155 people were aboard the Dagestan Airlines plane, but the Emergencies Ministry said on its website that the plane was carrying 168 passengers and eight crew. There were no explanations for the discrepancy.
The plane had taken off from another Moscow hub, Vnukovo Airport, and was en route to Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's southern region of Dagestan, officials said.
Izvolsky said the pilot received signals that engines had cut out about 80 kilometers into the flight at an altitude of 9,100 meters, and requested an emergency landing at Domodedovo, to the southeast of Moscow.
"The plane slid off the runway and, having hit uneven ground, broke up," the statement said.
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