Voice of RussiaA Boeing 737 crashed on landing in the Russian city of Kazan on Sunday and exploded on impact, killing all 44 passengers and six crew on board, the Emergencies Ministry said. There were no children among the passengers.
“Today, at 7:26pm Moscow time, the flight #363 Boeing 737 plane going from the Moscow Domodedovo International Airport to Kazan International Airport crashed into the runway after catching on fire during landing. Investigators from the local transportation agency are on their way to the site of the crash. An investigation has been launched into the causes and circumstances of the accident. It has been determined that the plane was supposed to land at 7:40pm Moscow time, but the crash took place 14 minutes earlier,” said Dmitry Yurievich Zakharov, Senior aid to the director of the Privolzhsky investigative transportation department of the Russian Investigative Committee, to the Voice of Russia radiostation.
The crew of the ill-fated airliner had aborted several landing approaches.
The preliminary version of the Russian passenger jet crash at Kazan Airport is a blunder made by the crew, or a human factor, a source in the law-enforcement bodies told RIA Novosti. The plane lost altitude during its final landing approach and crashed to the ground near its target runway.
The responsibilities of Tatarstan Airlines are insured at “Ak Bars Strakhovaniye”.
In accordance with Russia’s Aviation Code, each bereaved household is entitled to receiving 2 mln and 25,000 rubles.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for a special committee to be formed to investigate the causes of the accident. That’s according to Vladimir Putin’s press-secretary Dmitry Peskov who also added that the Russian President sends his condolences to the relatives of the crash victims.
The Boeing planemakers say they are tracking the situation at Kazan Airport and will send a team to help Russian crash investigators in their work.
The Boeing 737-500 mid-haul airliner entered commercial service in 1990 and stayed in production until 1999. It is somewhat shorter and has a longer range than the Boeing 737-300, the base model of the Boeing 737 Classic series. It is actually the smallest plane in this series.
Range fully loaded – 4,800 km.
Maximum takeoff weight – 60,550 kg.
Seating capacity – 132 in the economy version and 108 in the economy/business version.
Voice of Russia, RIA, Reuters, Interfax
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“There were no children among the passengers.”
Oooooookay………..
So it’s STILL all about the children, apparently.
WHY is that sentence even there???