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03-20-2016, 02:49 PM
Officials recover flight recorders from crashed flydubai flight
http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqFZzt.img?h=100&w=100&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=fRussian officials say they have retrieved the flight recorders from the wreckage of the flydubai plane that crashed in Russia on Saturday. Th flight, which was coming from Dubai with 62 people on board **sedived and exploded in a fireball while trying to land in strong winds in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, killing all aboard, officials said. Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said the Boeing 737-800 operated by flydubai was carrying 55 passengers, most of them Russians, and seven crew members of various nationalities. Flydubai confirmed that there were ** survivors and said four children were among those killed. The powerful explosion pulverized the plane but investigators quickly recovered both flight recorders, also k**wn as black boxes. The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately k**wn, but officials and experts pointed at a sudden gust of wind as a possible reason. “Our primary concern is for the families of the passengers and crew who were on board. Everyone at FlyDubai is in deep shock and our hearts go out to the families and friends of those involved,” said CEO Ghaith Al Ghaith. RELATED: flydubai crash coverage He said that pilots, who were from Cyprus and Spain, hadn’t issued any distress signal before the crash. They had 5,965 and 5,769 hours of flying time respectively, making them “quite experienced,” al-Ghaith added. The cabin crew included two Russians and citizens of Seychelles, Colombia and Kyrgyzstan. Al-Ghaith said the plane was produced in 2011 and underwent a detailed maintenance inspection k**wn as a C check in January. Rostov regional Gover**r Vasily Golubev said that “by all appearances, the cause of the air crash was the strongly gusting wind, approaching a hurricane level”. According to the weather data reported by Russian state television, winds at ground level weren’t dangerously strong at the moment of the crash, but at an altitude of 500m and higher they reached a near-hurricane speed of around 30 metres per second. Ian Petchenik, a spokesman for the flight-tracking website Flightradar24, told The Associated Press that the plane missed its approach then entered a holding pattern. According to Flightradar24, the plane circled for about two hours before making a**ther landing attempt. It said a Russian Aeroflot plane scheduled to land around the same time made three landing attempts but then diverted to a**ther airport. According to its data, the Dubai plane began climbing again after a go-around when it suddenly started to fall with vertical speed of up to 6,400m per minute. The closed-circuit TV footage showed the plane going down in a steep angle and exploding. Al Ghaith said the plane attempted to land in line with established procedures. “As far as we k**w the airport was open and we were good to operate,” he said, adding that they couldn’t have landed without air traffic controllers’ permission. Al Ghaith said the pilots hadn’t issued any distress call and hadn’t attempted to divert to an alternate airport. Viktor Gorbachev, director of the Russian airports association, said the airport in Rostov-on-Don has modern equipment to deal with adverse weather. Several planes had landed in Rostov-on-Don shortly before the Dubai airliner was scheduled to touch down, but other flights later were diverted. [email protected]
http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqFZzt.img?h=100&w=100&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=fRussian officials say they have retrieved the flight recorders from the wreckage of the flydubai plane that crashed in Russia on Saturday. Th flight, which was coming from Dubai with 62 people on board **sedived and exploded in a fireball while trying to land in strong winds in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, killing all aboard, officials said. Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said the Boeing 737-800 operated by flydubai was carrying 55 passengers, most of them Russians, and seven crew members of various nationalities. Flydubai confirmed that there were ** survivors and said four children were among those killed. The powerful explosion pulverized the plane but investigators quickly recovered both flight recorders, also k**wn as black boxes. The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately k**wn, but officials and experts pointed at a sudden gust of wind as a possible reason. “Our primary concern is for the families of the passengers and crew who were on board. Everyone at FlyDubai is in deep shock and our hearts go out to the families and friends of those involved,” said CEO Ghaith Al Ghaith. RELATED: flydubai crash coverage He said that pilots, who were from Cyprus and Spain, hadn’t issued any distress signal before the crash. They had 5,965 and 5,769 hours of flying time respectively, making them “quite experienced,” al-Ghaith added. The cabin crew included two Russians and citizens of Seychelles, Colombia and Kyrgyzstan. Al-Ghaith said the plane was produced in 2011 and underwent a detailed maintenance inspection k**wn as a C check in January. Rostov regional Gover**r Vasily Golubev said that “by all appearances, the cause of the air crash was the strongly gusting wind, approaching a hurricane level”. According to the weather data reported by Russian state television, winds at ground level weren’t dangerously strong at the moment of the crash, but at an altitude of 500m and higher they reached a near-hurricane speed of around 30 metres per second. Ian Petchenik, a spokesman for the flight-tracking website Flightradar24, told The Associated Press that the plane missed its approach then entered a holding pattern. According to Flightradar24, the plane circled for about two hours before making a**ther landing attempt. It said a Russian Aeroflot plane scheduled to land around the same time made three landing attempts but then diverted to a**ther airport. According to its data, the Dubai plane began climbing again after a go-around when it suddenly started to fall with vertical speed of up to 6,400m per minute. The closed-circuit TV footage showed the plane going down in a steep angle and exploding. Al Ghaith said the plane attempted to land in line with established procedures. “As far as we k**w the airport was open and we were good to operate,” he said, adding that they couldn’t have landed without air traffic controllers’ permission. Al Ghaith said the pilots hadn’t issued any distress call and hadn’t attempted to divert to an alternate airport. Viktor Gorbachev, director of the Russian airports association, said the airport in Rostov-on-Don has modern equipment to deal with adverse weather. Several planes had landed in Rostov-on-Don shortly before the Dubai airliner was scheduled to touch down, but other flights later were diverted. [email protected]