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FlyDubai Flight 981 Crash Thread
Topic Started: Mar 19 2016, 12:08 AM (23 Views)
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CBS News: Passenger plane from Dubai crashes in Russia
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MOSCOW -- A passenger plane from Dubai crashed while attempting to land early Saturday in southern Russia, officials said.

Russia's Emergencies Ministry said Flydubai Flight 981, a Boeing 737-800, crashed while trying to land at the airport in the city of Rostov-on-Don.

At a televised briefing headed by Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov, a ministry official said all 55 passengers and six crew members had been killed.

The airline said on its Facebook page that "We are aware of an incident involving our flight FZ981 from Dubai to Rostov On Don. We are investigating."

Tass reported that the Investigative Committee, the country's top investigative agency, said preliminary information indicates the plane was landing when it hit the ground and broke into pieces at the airport about 950 kilometers (600 miles) south of Moscow.

There was no immediate information on the cause, although some news reports suggested weather could have been a factor. Tass said weather data from the area indicated that winds were anywhere from 14 to 22 meters per second (30-50 mph) at the time of the crash and that there was light rain.

Russian news reports said most of those aboard were Russian tourists but there were unspecified foreign passengers as well.

Flydubai began service in 2009, CBS News transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave reported. Owned by the government, the discount carrier operates a fleet of 50 aircraft and flies to 95 destinations.
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Links of interest....
Wikipedia: FlyDubai Flight 981
BNO News Footage of FD Flight 981 crash news
Sputnik News
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Everyone survived?
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Mar 19 2016, 12:37 AM
Everyone survived?
Uhhh, unfortunately, no one appears to have survived. :(
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MSN News: All 62 Aboard Dubai Airlines Reported Killed In Crash
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MOSCOW (AP) — An airliner carrying 62 people from Dubai crashed early Saturday while landing in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don in strong winds, killing all aboard, Russian officials said.

A list published by the Emergencies Ministry showed the 737-800 was carrying 55 passengers and seven crew members, whose nationalities were not immediately confirmed. Igor Oder, head of the Emergencies Ministry's southern regional operations, said in a televised briefing that all had been killed.

The plane belonged to the budget carrier FlyDubai. In a statement, the budget carrier confirmed that flight FZ981 crashed on landing and said that there are fatalities. "We are doing all we can to gather information as quickly as possible.

At this moment our thoughts and prayers are with our passengers and our crew who were on board the aircraft," the airline said. Vasily Golubev, the governor of the Rostov region some 950 kilometers (600 miles) south of Moscow, was quoted by Russian news agencies as telling local journalists that the plane crashed about 250 meters (800 feet) short of the runway. News reports said the plane caught fire after the crash.

-Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/all-62-aboard-dubai-airliner-killed-in-crash-in-south-russia/ar-BBqDsGu
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