Aeroflot B737 Down near Perm
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737 Crash in Russia
Sky News reporting that a Boeing 737 carrying 82 passengers and 5 crew has crashed near Russia's city of Perm in the central Ural mountains.
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From RussiaToday : News : Plane crash claims 87 lives
September 14, 2008, 5:09 Plane crash claims 87 lives
More than 87 people have been killed in a plane crash near Perm in central Russia. Boeing 737 belonging was traveling from Moscow. 82 passengers and 5 crew members were on board. Seven children are thought to have been among the passengers. Emergency services say no one survived the crash.
The Boeing 737 aircraft was on a flight operated by Aeroflot Nord, an Aeroflot subsidiary company.
Emergency services say the plane was approaching its destination at an altitude of 1,800 meters when communication was lost.
The aircraft fell in wasteland and caught fire.
September 14, 2008, 5:09 Plane crash claims 87 lives
More than 87 people have been killed in a plane crash near Perm in central Russia. Boeing 737 belonging was traveling from Moscow. 82 passengers and 5 crew members were on board. Seven children are thought to have been among the passengers. Emergency services say no one survived the crash.
The Boeing 737 aircraft was on a flight operated by Aeroflot Nord, an Aeroflot subsidiary company.
Emergency services say the plane was approaching its destination at an altitude of 1,800 meters when communication was lost.
The aircraft fell in wasteland and caught fire.
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Passenger plane crashes in Russia
Passenger plane crashes in Russia
A passenger plane has crashed near the central Russian city of Perm, Russian emergency officials says.
The Boeing-737 was en route from Moscow and had 82 passengers and five crew members on board. All are feared dead.
Communications with the plane were lost as it was making a landing approach. The wreckage was later found outside Perm, which is located in the Urals. Rescuers are at the site. The cause of the crash is not known.
A passenger plane has crashed near the central Russian city of Perm, Russian emergency officials says.
The Boeing-737 was en route from Moscow and had 82 passengers and five crew members on board. All are feared dead.
Communications with the plane were lost as it was making a landing approach. The wreckage was later found outside Perm, which is located in the Urals. Rescuers are at the site. The cause of the crash is not known.
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Russian news agencies also say it was flight 821. Contact was lost when a/c was at height 1800m.
Addendum: According to RIA Novosti, the plane tried to do an emergency landing (ekstrennaja posadka), it came down near an industrial area in the vicinity of Perm.
Addendum: According to RIA Novosti, the plane tried to do an emergency landing (ekstrennaja posadka), it came down near an industrial area in the vicinity of Perm.
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From Yahoo News:
Plane crash in central Russia kills all 88 aboard
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MOSCOW – A plane carrying 88 people has crashed in central Russia, killing all on board, an emergency official said Sunday.
The Boeing-737 traveling from Moscow to Perm went down around 3:40 a.m. Sunday, Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova said.
The plane, operated by a division of Aeroflot, was on its approach to land in Perm when it crashed into an unpopulated area of the city, she said. A total of 82 passengers, including seven children, and six crew were on board, she said.
She said there was no damage or deaths on the ground and investigators were working to determine what caused the incident.
There was no indication of a terrorist attack, she said.
Perm is about 750 miles east of Moscow.
Perm emergency official Valery Tibunov said in televsied comments that the plane fell onto train tracks just a few dozen meters (yards) from an apartment building.
Russia and the other former Soviet republics have some the world's worst air traffic safety records, according to the International Air Transport Association.
Experts have blamed weak government controls, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality among many carriers that affects safety.
Sunday's crash was the second involving a Boeing 737 in the former Soviet Union in the past month. A Boeing flying from the Central Asian nation of Kyrgystan to Iran crashed shortly after takeoff on Aug. 24, killing 56 people.
Plane crash in central Russia kills all 88 aboard
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MOSCOW – A plane carrying 88 people has crashed in central Russia, killing all on board, an emergency official said Sunday.
The Boeing-737 traveling from Moscow to Perm went down around 3:40 a.m. Sunday, Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova said.
The plane, operated by a division of Aeroflot, was on its approach to land in Perm when it crashed into an unpopulated area of the city, she said. A total of 82 passengers, including seven children, and six crew were on board, she said.
She said there was no damage or deaths on the ground and investigators were working to determine what caused the incident.
There was no indication of a terrorist attack, she said.
Perm is about 750 miles east of Moscow.
Perm emergency official Valery Tibunov said in televsied comments that the plane fell onto train tracks just a few dozen meters (yards) from an apartment building.
Russia and the other former Soviet republics have some the world's worst air traffic safety records, according to the International Air Transport Association.
Experts have blamed weak government controls, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality among many carriers that affects safety.
Sunday's crash was the second involving a Boeing 737 in the former Soviet Union in the past month. A Boeing flying from the Central Asian nation of Kyrgystan to Iran crashed shortly after takeoff on Aug. 24, killing 56 people.
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Ria Novosti reports:
According to security officials, the plane caught fire in the air and "blew up". A member of the police in Perm said, that the cause for the accident may be a non-functional and burning engine. Contact to plane was lost at 3:10 Moscow time (5:10 local time), when it was at a height of 1800 meter.
According to security officials, the plane caught fire in the air and "blew up". A member of the police in Perm said, that the cause for the accident may be a non-functional and burning engine. Contact to plane was lost at 3:10 Moscow time (5:10 local time), when it was at a height of 1800 meter.
Experts have blamed weak government controls, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality among many carriers that affects safety.
----I hear the whistle of the BS train
Time for a PpruNe accident investigation
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my heart goes out to the victims and their families
--a plane crash is always a sad and tragic event---- therefore I hope some restraint can be shown here so that we can gather the truth and prevent another occurrence PA
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VP-B Registration?
If the aircraft has a VP-Bxx registration, does that mean it is registered in Bermuda? or is it a special Russian registration? Not related to the occurrence, just curious.
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VP-Bxx registries
It appears that the Russian Republic refrains from registering "western build" airplanes with its national RA-xxxxx type registry. I do not know the status of VP-BKO, which is probably leased by Aeroflot.
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By the way, Aeroflot North is not a subsidiary... It is a "directorate" of Aeroflot, as Aeroflot domestic structure consists of separate regional "directorates" which are based in various Russian cities.
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A few years ago (2005) I ferried as captain, the first 4 "TransAero" 747-200s from USA storage to Moscow Domodedovo. These airplanes were ferried (and now operate) with a Bermuda registry VP-Bxx, and their status is "leased" to TransAero, a Russian charter airline.
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Happy contrails
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By the way, Aeroflot North is not a subsidiary... It is a "directorate" of Aeroflot, as Aeroflot domestic structure consists of separate regional "directorates" which are based in various Russian cities.
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A few years ago (2005) I ferried as captain, the first 4 "TransAero" 747-200s from USA storage to Moscow Domodedovo. These airplanes were ferried (and now operate) with a Bermuda registry VP-Bxx, and their status is "leased" to TransAero, a Russian charter airline.
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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.
- hard to imagine indeed.
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88 onboard that lost their lives, 9 Azerbadjizani, 1 French, 1 German, 1 Italian,
1 Latvian, 67 Russian, 1 Swiss, 1 Turkish, 5 Ukrainan and 1 US.
According to Swedish media.
1 Latvian, 67 Russian, 1 Swiss, 1 Turkish, 5 Ukrainan and 1 US.
According to Swedish media.
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VP-B Registrations.
More of a Tax, Over Sight and Lease issue than anything else. Also a lot of EI Registrations in the region for the same reason.
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