Sensible Garage
20th Nov 2005, 07:43
just copy pasting, sad accident, looks like the Caravan may have been caught in icing....
Plane Crash Outside Moscow Kills 8 Created: 20.11.2005 10:52 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 10:52 MSK, 37 minutes ago A Russian plane with eight people on board crashed overnight killing all passengers and crew, Russian media reported on Sunday. The Cessna light aircraft came down just outside Moscow and burst into flames when it hit the ground, news agencies reported. Officials said heavy snow and the pilot’s violating the flight regulations caused the crash. RIA Novosti news agency reported that among the passengers was Igor Olshansky, an assistant and son to a deputy in the State Duma, lower house of parliament. There were also two women on board. The passengers were reportedly returning to Moscow after spending the day hunting in Voronezh, Gazeta.ru added.
MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) - Violations of flight regulations are a likely cause of the Cessna plane crash outside Moscow on Saturday evening, according to the Prosecutor General's Office.
"Violations were probably due to snowy weather," deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Savchenko told the press. "When falling the plane caught fire. The two crew and six passengers were killed when the plane hit the ground. Experts are working at the scene," Savchenko said. A Cessna light aircraft crashed on a flight to Moscow from Voronezh near the village of Staroye, 10 kilometer northeast of the town of Stupino outside Moscow.
MOSCOW: Eight people were feared killed when a small airplane crashed in the Moscow region, Russian news agency reported early Sunday. Six passengers, including lawmaker Nikolai Olshansky's son, and two pilots were on board the plane bound from the southern city of Voronezh to Moscow, but air controllers lost contact with the plane before it should have arrived at the Moscow Domodedovo airport, emergency ministry officials said.
The plane turned out to be 2004 Caravan 208B-1052, reg P4-OIN (Aruba), ex-N1283Y, flown by Russian crew.
Plane Crash Outside Moscow Kills 8 Created: 20.11.2005 10:52 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 10:52 MSK, 37 minutes ago A Russian plane with eight people on board crashed overnight killing all passengers and crew, Russian media reported on Sunday. The Cessna light aircraft came down just outside Moscow and burst into flames when it hit the ground, news agencies reported. Officials said heavy snow and the pilot’s violating the flight regulations caused the crash. RIA Novosti news agency reported that among the passengers was Igor Olshansky, an assistant and son to a deputy in the State Duma, lower house of parliament. There were also two women on board. The passengers were reportedly returning to Moscow after spending the day hunting in Voronezh, Gazeta.ru added.
MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) - Violations of flight regulations are a likely cause of the Cessna plane crash outside Moscow on Saturday evening, according to the Prosecutor General's Office.
"Violations were probably due to snowy weather," deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Savchenko told the press. "When falling the plane caught fire. The two crew and six passengers were killed when the plane hit the ground. Experts are working at the scene," Savchenko said. A Cessna light aircraft crashed on a flight to Moscow from Voronezh near the village of Staroye, 10 kilometer northeast of the town of Stupino outside Moscow.
MOSCOW: Eight people were feared killed when a small airplane crashed in the Moscow region, Russian news agency reported early Sunday. Six passengers, including lawmaker Nikolai Olshansky's son, and two pilots were on board the plane bound from the southern city of Voronezh to Moscow, but air controllers lost contact with the plane before it should have arrived at the Moscow Domodedovo airport, emergency ministry officials said.
The plane turned out to be 2004 Caravan 208B-1052, reg P4-OIN (Aruba), ex-N1283Y, flown by Russian crew.