Aeroflot-Nord 737 crash

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MOSCOW, (AFP) - - A Boeing-737 jet crashed near Russia's city of Perm in the central Ural mountains killing all 82 passengers and six crew on board, including 21 foreigners, the jet's owner Aeroflot said Sunday.

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"The Boeing-737 carried 82 passengers on board, including seven children, and six crew... All passengers were killed," Aeroflot said in a statement.

 

"There are foreign citizens among the victims, including nine from Azerbaijan, five from Ukraine, and one each from France, Switzerland, Latvia, the United States, Germany, Turkey and Italy," the statement said.

 

Earlier the company denied that any foreigners were killed in the accident.

 

"As the plane was coming in for landing, it lost communication at the height of 1,100 meters and air controllers lost its blip. The airplane was found within Perm's city limits completely destroyed and on fire," the statement added.

 

Earlier, investigator Vladimir Markin was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying that "there were 82 passengers plus a baby and five crew on board, and by preliminary information, they are all dead" as the airplane "fell into a ravine near the city limits."

 

However, a ministry source quoted by RIA Novosti said that the plane fell just meters away from apartment houses, and that the entire area was cordoned off by police to help investigators.

 

An emergency situations ministry source quoted by RIA Novosti also claimed it was possible that three people who bought a ticket for the ill-fated flight 821 to Perm did not get on board.

 

The wreckage was strewn over some four square kilometers, officials said, adding that the flames had been completely put out.

 

The cause of the accident was not immediately clear, though a source quoted by RIA Novosti suggested that an engine failure could have sparked flames on board and led to the crash.

 

One of the airplane's two black boxes was found among the wreckage, officials quoted by RIA Novosti said, adding that it was already handed over to experts for decoding.

 

Aeroflot set up a crisis center for the victims' relatives both in Moscow's Sheremetyevo-1 airport and in Perm, including psychological aid, the company said.

 

The airline also pledged to pay "compensation on obligatory accident insurance in full, which would make up to two million rubles (some 80,000 dollars) per victim," the company's statement said.

 

Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu reported the accident to Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev, the Kremlin press service said.

 

An investigative group headed by Transport Minister Igor Levitin was due to fly out to the site.

 

The emergency situations ministry considered sending a rescue team to the site from Moscow, but later reported that "Perm had sufficient resources to deal with the search and rescue mission and decided to delay sending out experts from Moscow."

 

The Trans-Siberian Railway, which was damaged in the accident, had been cut off on the stretch between Perm and Yekaterinburg, and all trains put on detour, local police officials said.

 

The airplane had been leased by Aeroflot from a Dublin-based company Pinewatch Limited in late July until March 2013, Aeroflot said.

 

Last year, the 33 Russian aviation accidents that left 318 dead -- a sixfold increase over 2005 -- raised serious concerns about Russia's civil aviation, with experts pointing at major faults in the professional training of crews as well as Russia's aging fleet of passenger jets.

 

An air safety commission announced in January that the average age of the country's international airliners was 18, and its regional jets 30 years.

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Sad Sad Sad :sorry:

[jjfirdaus 0]

oh no another 737 crash. may all of them R.I.P

[Muhd Hisyam 5]

737 again...RIP for victim

[MIR 2]

RIP to all..

 

 

 

[Wilber Tan 0]

thanks for the pic..so horrible so sad..

 

may all the 82 RIP

[Teoh Z Yao 0]

The crash looks awful! R.I.P. to the victims...

 

So sad another air crash...

[Azuddin 1]

RIP to all

 

I think this is the second crash of a B737-500, after the Egyptair 735 crashed back in 2002.

 

Azuddin

[Pieter C. 5]

Russian Plane Crash Kills 88, Faulty Engine Blamed

 

September 14, 2008

Engine failure caused an Aeroflot Boeing 737-500 plane crash in Russia on Sunday which killed all 88 people on board, officials said, dismissing fears terrorists had attacked the airliner.

 

The dead included 21 foreign nationals flying on the plane from Moscow to Perm in the Urals when it crashed into scrubland and a rail track on the edge of the city, narrowly missing houses.

 

Russian news agencies and television quoted eyewitnesses who said they saw an explosion before the plane fell to earth and wreckage was spread over a wide area fueling speculation of a terrorist attack.

 

But Russian officials investigating the crash said a faulty engine had forced the plane to crash.

 

"We have no information that the aircraft exploded in mid-air," Interfax news agency quoted Russia's transport minister Igor Levitin as saying.

 

Alexander Bastrykin from the Russian Prosecutor-General's office investigating the crash blamed it on a technical fault, according to RIA Novosti news agency.

 

"Judging by inspections from the scene... the aircraft crash was connected to technical defects of the right engine," he said.

 

Fragments of debris covered a section of the Trans-Siberian railway, forcing trains to divert around the Perm area.

 

Television showed fire fighters walking around the smouldering remains. One of the only recognisable pieces of the aircraft was a white fuselage panel showing the logo of Aeroflot, Russia's national carrier.

 

"There were 88 people on board, 82 passengers and six crew," said Emergencies Ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova. "All of them died. There were no casualties on the ground."

 

Seven children were killed in the crash and Aeroflot said 21 foreign nationals were among the dead -- nine from Azerbaijan, five from Ukraine and one person each from France, Switzerland, Latvia, the United States, Germany, Turkey and Italy.

 

Russian news agencies said one of the dead was General Gennady Troshev, who in 2000 commanded the Russian army against separatist rebels in the north Caucasus region of Chechnya.

 

Russian aviation has tried to shake off its patchy safety record. Sunday's incident was its worst crash since 170 people died in Aug. 2006 when a TU-154 plane crashed in Ukraine on a flight from the Black Sea resort of Anapa to St Petersburg.

 

Four years ago two Chechen suicide bombers blew up two Russian passenger planes within minutes of each other.

 

Contact with the airliner was lost when it was at an altitude of 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) while descending to land, said an Aeroflot spokeswoman.

 

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent condolences to the Perm regional governor.

 

"The government commission will make every effort to investigate the aviation crash fully in order to help the families of the dead," RIA news agency quoted Putin as saying.

 

Aeroflot, a debt-ridden airline in the 1990s when it had a fleet of mainly Soviet-built planes, has transformed itself into an image conscious, profit-making company with global ambitions.

 

Aeroflot immediately said it would pay compensation of 2 million roubles ($77,800) to relatives of the dead and made plans to fly family members from Moscow to Perm.

 

The last Aeroflot plane crash occurred in March 1994 in Siberia when 70 people were killed. Investigators found that the pilot's teenage son had been allowed to enter the flight cabin and had accidentally switched off the autopilot.

 

Last month, at least 65 people were killed when a Boeing 737-200 crashed in Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian country that was once part of the Soviet Union.

 

(Reuters)

 

[Aiman 0]

The last Aeroflot plane crash occurred in March 1994 in Siberia when 70 people were killed. Investigators found that the pilot's teenage son had been allowed to enter the flight cabin and had accidentally switched off the autopilot.

 

yeah..the father of that boy(captain) allowed him to control/hold an a300 yoke with real passanger onbord seen in ACI..

[Pieter C. 5]

Russian Prosecutors To Probe Aeroflot Over Crash

 

September 16, 2008

Russian prosecutors said on Tuesday they are to check safety standards at national carrier Aeroflot after a plane operated by one of its subsidiaries crashed killing all 88 people on board.

 

A Boeing 737-500 operated by Aeroflot subsidiary Aeroflot-Nord crashed as it tried to land in the Ural mountains city of Perm in the early hours of Sunday morning, in Russia's worst air crash for two years.

 

A spokeswoman for Aeroflot said the checks by prosecutors were routine and the company was confident it was in compliance with safety regulations.

 

A statement from the Prosecutor-General's office said investigators had been instructed to "conduct checks on the implementation of aviation and flight safety laws in Aeroflot - Russian Airlines and its subsidiaries."

 

It said the investigation was being launched in connection with Sunday's crash. Investigators initially blamed engine failure for the crash but they said on Tuesday that was not their only line of inquiry.

 

Aeroflot spokeswoman Irina Dannenberg said the checks into the company's safety standards would start on Wednesday.

 

"Such checks occur regularly. The recent disaster has given the reason to conduct another one," she said. "We are in excellent condition and there has never been any difficulty."

 

Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor-General's office which is leading the crash investigation, said on Sunday a technical fault on the plane's right engine was the most likely cause of the crash.

 

"But that explanation is far from being the only one which is being painstakingly examined by investigators," Bastrykin's press service quoted him as saying in a statement on Tuesday.

 

He did not list the other possible causes. Russian state television said these could include a mistake by the crew, low quality fuel or a dangerous cargo in the aircraft's hold.

 

Russia's domestic intelligence agency has said explosives could not have brought down the aircraft. Some witnesses said they heard an explosion while the jet was still in the air, and debris was scattered over a large area.

 

"It will only be possible to draw final conclusions after the 'black boxes' have been processed and after the results are received from complicated forensic studies," the statement quoted Bastrykin as saying.

 

Russia's airline industry has improved its patchy safety record in the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and Sunday's crash was the worst since 170 people died in August 2006 when a Russian TU-154 plane crashed in Ukraine.

 

(Reuters)

 

[Hakan 2]

yeah..the father of that boy(captain) allowed him to control/hold an a300 yoke with real passanger onbord

 

it was an A310 not an A300.But that accident has different place in crash investigation history. Cause of crash was the boy's very slowly and forcely command on control yoke,after that A310 disengaged A/P without any "sound" warning herself, just only turnedoff A/P sign on dashboard.Shortly after A310 began firstly slow then deep dive and turns.

 

Russian crash investigators found a weird something after loong and detailed research. A310 flight control system could be able to disconnect A/P without any sound warning if you have apply continiously slowly force onto command yokes.There were only one thing that would be awarn pilots, A/P lights turn off, but if pilots interest any other worksn in cockpit they wouldn't be know until they look A/P sign on EADI.

 

Interesting point, Airbus engineers didn't know that ant firstly they didin't believe. After makes some simulator flights, Russian investigators has been prove that to engineers.

[Pieter C. 5]

Poor Training Main Cause Of Aeroflot 737 Crash

 

February 10, 2009

The chief pilot of an Aeroflot airliner which crashed last year killing 88 people had alcohol in his blood but the primary cause of the crash was poor training, investigators said on Tuesday.

 

A Boeing 737-500 operated by Aeroflot-Nord crashed as it tried to land in the Ural mountains city of Perm early in the morning, killing everyone on board in Russia's worst air crash for two years.

 

An official commission which investigated the crash said the main cause was inadequate training which caused the crew to lose orientation, but it also identified the crew's preparation for the flight as a contributing factor.

 

"A forensic study... detected the presence of ethyl alcohol in the crew commander's body before his death," Alexei Morozov, head of the investigating commission, told a news conference.

 

"The crew commander's regime of work and rest in the period preceding this aviation accident was a factor behind his overall tiredness and ran counter to the established standards."

 

Morozov said the crew had lost its orientation flying at night through thick cloud, with the aircraft's autopilot and automated throttle control switched off. He said the crew had not been adequately trained to fly on that type of plane.

 

(Reuters)

 

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Always uneasy to hear accidents like this.