MOSCOW, Nov. 1 -- At least six people died when a transport plane crashed Sunday in Russia's far-eastern Yakutia region, RIA Novosti news agency reported. The plane, an Ilyushin transport plane of the Interior Ministry, were carrying 11 people when it crashed at on Sunday morning, a local official told the news agency.
"Six bodies have been found at the site," he said, adding that searching for others on board the plane was continuing. He didn't mention the cause of the accident.
Spot on Vovachan. Reading the previous posts and looking at the BBC attachment the aircraft crashed 25Km (15 Miles) from the departure airport. If accident site is correct it is hardly likely to have been caused by a flapless take-off. But as you said, let the speculation begin.
Last edited by Old Fella : 3rd November 2009 at 03:28.
Reason: Eat a bit of humble pie re where it happened?
All russian reports I read tell that IL-76 started to bank right after lift off and crashed very close to the airport.
BBC got mixed up. Probably they thought that 15m from russian reports actually means miles.
Well the FlightGlobal report states 1.5km from the airport, and I doubt very much that there are many airport fire trucks rolling around 15 miles from the airport either (watch the video on the BBC site - at the end). All points to being very near the airport really.
Didn't help the folks inside either way - God rest.
Ice accumulation on the ground perhaps? having said that most russian made airliners seem to stop flying if an engine lets go in most circumstances... and most of them look positively dangerous just sitting on the ground (no disrespect intended)
having said that most russian made airliners seem to stop flying if an engine lets go in most circumstances
That's normally the case when aircraft is overloaded by cowboys. Otherwise they are pretty much the same and can handle one engine out take off.
But this one was operated by the State (Ministry of Internal Affairs, = cops and special forces, but not Army) and on a non-commerical mission, so no reason to overload (?).
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