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03-20-2016, 02:49 PM
Parents confirm identity of flydubai flight attendant
http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqGwho.img?h=100&w=100&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=107&y=113The parents of flight attendant Laura Patricia de la Cruz have confirmed that the Colombian woman is among the 62 victims of the flydubai plane crash in southern Russia. Her father, Wulfram de la Cruz, told local news media that she had been living in the UAE for three years with her husband, who is also a flight attendant. He said on Saturday that he and his wife will be travelling from their home in the town of Sabanalarga in a few days to help with the identification of his daughter’s remains. The crash on Saturday in the city of Rostov-on-Don left a big crater in the airport’s runway and pulverized the plane. All aboard were killed. Meanwhile, a long-time friend of the Cypriot pilot of the crashed plane says the 38-year-old aviator was going to quit the airline after recently accepting a job with Ryanair in Cyprus. The friend said that Aristos Socratous, whose wife will give birth to the couple’s first child in a few weeks, wanted to raise his family in Cyprus despite a drop in his wages. RELATED: Coverage of flydubai crash The friend, who asked **t to be named, said Socratous was an experienced pilot who had ** complaints about flydubai and was happy about being promoted to full captain a year and a half ago. Socratous had previously worked for Helios Airways, the Cypriot airline that shut down after a plane crash in 2005. An investigation into the crash is ongoing. Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said the flight recorders were being flown to Moscow late on Saturday for examination by experts from Russia, the United Arab Emirates, France and the US; the US-made Boeing had French-made engines. It was flydubai’s first crash since the budget carrier began operating in 2009. Its fleet consists of newer 737-800 aircraft like the one that crashed. The plane’s 55 passengers, 44 of them Russian, ranged in age from 4 to 67; eight others were from Ukraine, two were from India and one from Uzbekistan. Its crew of seven was an ethnic melange — two Spaniards and one person each from Cyprus, Colombia, Russia, the Seychelles and Kyrgyzstan. [email protected]
http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBqGwho.img?h=100&w=100&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=107&y=113The parents of flight attendant Laura Patricia de la Cruz have confirmed that the Colombian woman is among the 62 victims of the flydubai plane crash in southern Russia. Her father, Wulfram de la Cruz, told local news media that she had been living in the UAE for three years with her husband, who is also a flight attendant. He said on Saturday that he and his wife will be travelling from their home in the town of Sabanalarga in a few days to help with the identification of his daughter’s remains. The crash on Saturday in the city of Rostov-on-Don left a big crater in the airport’s runway and pulverized the plane. All aboard were killed. Meanwhile, a long-time friend of the Cypriot pilot of the crashed plane says the 38-year-old aviator was going to quit the airline after recently accepting a job with Ryanair in Cyprus. The friend said that Aristos Socratous, whose wife will give birth to the couple’s first child in a few weeks, wanted to raise his family in Cyprus despite a drop in his wages. RELATED: Coverage of flydubai crash The friend, who asked **t to be named, said Socratous was an experienced pilot who had ** complaints about flydubai and was happy about being promoted to full captain a year and a half ago. Socratous had previously worked for Helios Airways, the Cypriot airline that shut down after a plane crash in 2005. An investigation into the crash is ongoing. Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said the flight recorders were being flown to Moscow late on Saturday for examination by experts from Russia, the United Arab Emirates, France and the US; the US-made Boeing had French-made engines. It was flydubai’s first crash since the budget carrier began operating in 2009. Its fleet consists of newer 737-800 aircraft like the one that crashed. The plane’s 55 passengers, 44 of them Russian, ranged in age from 4 to 67; eight others were from Ukraine, two were from India and one from Uzbekistan. Its crew of seven was an ethnic melange — two Spaniards and one person each from Cyprus, Colombia, Russia, the Seychelles and Kyrgyzstan. [email protected]