Moscow, Russian Federation (AHN) – Two people perished and more than 80 passengers were injured when a plane made a rough emergency landing and rolled off the runway at a Moscow airport. Prior to crashing at Domodedovo airport on Saturday the plane lost three of its engines.
Dagestan Airlines flight 372 had taken off from Moscow’s Vnukovo airport 30 minutes before it tried to make the emergency landing.
Investigators say that in addition to engine failure the jets power sources and navigation equipment failed.
According to the transport Prosecutor’s Office, the Russian-built TU-154 jet was carrying 163 passengers, including seven children and nine crew members among the others.
“According to the latest information, 83 people were sent to hospitals after the Tu-154 plane accident,” a spokesperson for the Health Ministry said.
The aircraft which was headed for Russia’s North Caucasus city of Makhachkala was of the same model which crashed April in Poland. That crash claimed the life of Polish president Lech Kaczynski and more than 90 of the country’s top government officials.
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