Crashed Boeing in Rostov-on-Don. What is known about the crash. Boeing passenger plane crash in Rostov-on-Don. Investigation
On the night of March 19, the Boeing 737-800 A6-FDN aircraft Fly dubai crashed on the runway of the Rostov airport. The crash killed all 62 people on board the liner - 55 passengers (including four children) and seven crew members. Most of those who died in the plane crash were residents Rostov region in addition, among the passengers were citizens of Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
On March 20, mourning was declared in the Rostov region for the victims of the crash. The tragedy shocked the whole country - spontaneous mourning events took place in many cities. For example, in Moscow, people carried flowers and notes to the representative office of the Rostov region, in St. Petersburg, those who sympathized with the grief of Rostovites lit candles on the spit of Vasilyevsky Island.
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“This tragedy affected everyone, without exaggeration, because almost everyone had a friend on board,” a resident of Rostov, journalist Stanislav Smagin, told RT. - Rostov-on-Don after all country town, here through one everyone knows each other. This tragedy will remain in the memory of Rostovites now forever, because this is one of the blackest pages in the history of Rostov-on-Don.”
“The atmosphere in the city was mournfully heavy, but uniting. General grief, which rallied all the townspeople. I note that in the city there were no rumors about this plane crash from the side of Rostovites, although this is very typical for Rostov and southern cities in general, ”recalls Smagin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev expressed condolences to the families of the victims. In addition, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Pope Francis, UAE Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other world leaders addressed the families of the victims of the disaster with words of sympathy.
Flydubai launched a special website where everyone could leave words of condolence in connection with the tragedy.
The government of the Rostov region paid the relatives of each deceased 1 million rubles. In addition, Flydubai transferred 2 million 25 thousand rubles to the families of the victims. The mandatory amount of compensation from the carrier, provided for Air Code RF in such cases, is 2 million rubles for one deceased.
It should be noted that some relatives do not consider this amount of payment to be fair and intend to require Flydubai's management to pay actual damages through the courts. That is, we are not talking about the standard insurance payment offered by the airline, but about compensation for moral and material damage.
The airline's management provided for this option by introducing a clause into the compensation agreement, according to which the amount paid is deducted from all subsequent payments established by court order or by settlement agreement.
As a result, according to the All-Russian Union of Insurers, five families refused to sign an agreement with Flydubai, demanding that this clause be deleted from the text of the document, as they expect to receive compensation from the airline through the courts in excess of 2 million 25 thousand rubles.
Fatal "shift"
The Interstate Aviation Committee, as well as specialists from the United Arab Emirates, France and the United States, are investigating the causes of the crash.
A detailed chronology of those events, reconstructed by the IAC experts based on data from flight recorders and controllers' testimonies, is set out in the committee's interim report published in April 2016.
The aircraft flying FDB 981 from Dubai was supposed to land in Rostov-on-Don at 01:40 Moscow time. The flight to Rostov was uneventful and took about four hours. Nothing foreshadowed trouble: the forecasted and actual weather in the area of the Rostov airport, as well as two alternate airports in Krasnodar and Volgograd, allowed the liner to land.
Before descending, the crew requested data on the weather and the readiness of the runway from the dispatcher. It was raining near the airport, accompanied by gusts of wind at a speed of up to 18 meters per second, visibility was about three kilometers. But it was not possible to land the plane - the captain of the aircraft transmitted information about the presence of "wind shear" to the control service and left at 01:42 for the second circle with a climb to an altitude of 1500 m. "Wind shear" in aviation is called a local change in wind speed and direction . This phenomenon can lead to uncontrollability of the aircraft during takeoff or landing.
An hour and a half later, at 03:23, the Boeing team made another attempt, requesting clearance to descend for a re-landing approach. In both cases, the pilots turned off the aircraft's autopilot system after descending to 600 meters. But this attempt was not crowned with success either - at an altitude of 220 m, the captain decided to go around again with the engines brought to maximum take-off power. Experts believe that such a decision was made by the commander of the vessel due to gusts of wind near the ground.
Experts from the International Aviation Committee concluded that the cause of the tragedy was a crew error. At an altitude of 900 meters, the pilot simultaneously released the steering wheel “away from himself” (in this position, the ship begins to descend) and switched the aircraft stabilizer to a dive. As a result, at an altitude of 1000 meters, the plane began to descend again, this time in an uncontrolled mode. "The subsequent actions of the crew did not prevent a collision with the ground," the IAC report says. At 03:41, the Boeing 737 collided with the runway at a speed of 600 km/h.
Human factor
Soon, videos of the plane crash began to appear on the Internet. The footage shows how a luminous object rapidly rushes to the ground, then a bright flash occurs.
Internet users have found a lot of "strangeness" in the video. For example, many wondered why the trees in the video are still, even though the weather was windy in the area of the crash. Subsequently, the experts explained that the trees could be closed from the wind by houses, and in addition, the wind speed at different heights can vary greatly.
Also, the fact that the falling ship glowed caused bewilderment - it was suggested that the plane caught fire while still in flight. But experts refuted this version: it was the light of landing lights, not a flame, the experts explained.
The version originally put forward about the malfunction of the aircraft was rejected based on the results of a thorough check. According to the IAC, all systems and units of the Boeing 737-800 worked properly.
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“The aircraft had a valid airworthiness certificate, passed the necessary Maintenance and was in good order at the time of departure, ”the committee said in a statement.
Bad weather conditions also could not have caused the tragedy, experts say. In general, the weather parameters fit into the standards under which an aircraft of this class can land.
Thus, to date the only version The cause of the crash is the error of the pilots, who had the necessary qualifications and experience, but for some reason lost control during landing.
The captain of the aircraft, 38-year-old Aristos Sokratus, was a citizen of Cyprus, the co-pilot, 37-year-old Alejandro Alava Cruz, was a citizen of Spain. Socrates had almost 6000 flight hours behind him, most which he spent at the helm of a Boeing 737. He received permission to command an aircraft a year and a half before the Rostov disaster. The co-pilot, in addition to the Boeing 737, flew the ATR 42/72 and Airbus A320 aircraft.
Experts note that the scenario of the Rostov disaster resembles the story of the fall of the Boeing-737 of the Tatarstan airline at the Kazan airport in November 2013. Then the crew also could not land the ship the first time and went to the second circle, from which the plane went into an uncontrolled dive and crashed on the ground.
During the investigation of that disaster, an experiment was conducted: experienced pilots were asked to take the plane on the simulator to the second circle. Only four out of eleven test subjects completed the task, and none of the pilots could correctly answer all the questions on the job. automatic systems aircraft.
As Valery Postnikov, executive director of the Society of Independent Air Accident Investigators, explained in an interview with RT, pilot error is the final version.
“For unclear reasons, the pilots made a mistake in controlling the aircraft, and the weather here definitely has nothing to do with it. There is such a thing as meteominium - a certain set of conditions under which this aircraft is tested and should land normally. Modern means of navigation and aircraft control allow pilots to land absolutely safely, subject to normal procedures,” the expert noted.
According to Postnikov, the crew had to be ready for the approach to the second circle, as this is a mandatory exercise in pilot training. The reason for the problem that has arisen may be that in the training of pilots are not used real flights with an instructor is too expensive.
“All the problems of pilot training now rest only on money. To date, all training processes on modern ships take place on simulators, but still, test flights with an instructor pilot are needed, ”Postnikov noted.
Aviation expert Sergey Krutousov agrees with this point of view. In an interview with RT, he noted that the national pilot training school civil aviation traditionally exceeded the foreign one, but now the level is declining in Russia as well.
“Our training system is also starting to “float”, because we use foreign aircraft. And at the same time, pilots have to be trained according to Western methods, with all the ensuing consequences. Today, a pilot is being trained to become a computer operator, and before there were many flights in manual mode, ”the expert noted.
But, perhaps, the cause of the tragedy was not at all the insufficient training of the pilots, but their physical overwork. Immediately after the tragedy, RT began to receive requests from Flydubai employees and pilots of other airlines, who said that this and other airlines were violating instructions, forcing pilots to work overtime.
Both Boeing pilot 737-800s were also recycled, unable to recuperate between flights. It was fatigue that could lead to a decrease in concentration, the result of which was a tragic mistake.
At the airport of Rostov-on-Don, a Boeing-737-800 passenger plane en route from Dubai crashed with 62 people on board. The liner landed in conditions of poor visibility and fell 50-100 meters from runway. Upon impact with the ground, it broke apart and caught fire. All on board perished.
What happened?
The Boeing 737-800 crashed at 3:50 Moscow time. FlyDubai flight FZ-981 took off at 22:37 on Friday from Dubai and was due to land in Rostov-on-Don at 1:40. On the online scoreboard after the disaster, the status “awaiting arrival” was displayed.
The plane hit the ground 50-100 meters from the runway. The landing was carried out in conditions of poor visibility. In Rostov-on-Don, on the night of March 18-19, a storm warning was announced. The Ministry of Emergency Situations reported strong winds with gusts up to 28 meters per second.
A video of the Boeing crash has gone viral.
The liner, presumably, came in for landing twice. On the second attempt, near the ground, the nose of the plane lifted sharply, and it caught on the ground with its tail, a source told LifeNews.
According to the Flightradar website, the plane circled the airport for two hours, making ten extra laps.
The collision was so strong that the plane fell apart and caught fire. The wreckage was scattered over 1.5 kilometers. There are 55 passengers on board, including four children, and 7 crew members. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, all of them died.
"Boeing-737-800" is controlled by two pilots. The cabin provides up to 189 seats.
All crew members were believed to be foreigners, while the passengers were Russians.
The situation at the airport
After the disaster, it was decided to close the Rostov-on-Don airport until 7 am on March 20.
“Airline representatives have been notified of the cancellation of all flights. On this moment the flight from Prague landed at the alternate airfield in Sheremetyevo, the flight from Istanbul was returned back to Istanbul,” the official representative of the airport said.
The air harbor is located in the eastern part of the city, 8 kilometers from the center. It ranks 12th in terms of passenger traffic in Russia - about 2.5 million people a year. Flights are carried out on 78 regular referrals, including international ones.
114 people (of which 8 are employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations) and 31 pieces of equipment are working at the scene.
A group of psychologists from the Center for Emergency Psychological Assistance went to the airport. They will work with relatives of the victims arriving there. The source reports that there are already about 600 of them.
Progress of the investigation
The investigative-operational group establishes the circumstances of the disaster. The Investigative Committee of Russia initiated a criminal case under the article on "violation of the rules of traffic safety and operation air transport entailed by negligence the death of two or more persons” (Part 3 of Article 263 of the Criminal Code).
“Deputy Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Boris Karnaukhov flew to the crash site,” said the official representative of the department, Vladimir Markin. “To provide practical assistance, forensic specialists from the Main Directorate of Forensic Science of the Investigative Committee of Russia, who have experience in investigating aviation accidents, also flew out.”
FlyDubai, a low-cost airline of the United Arab Emirates based in Dubai, also began its investigation. The airline's fleet consists of 50 Boeing 737-800 aircraft, all of which are new. FlyDubai operates flights to 90 destinations, including Russia: Moscow, Mineralnye Vody, Samara, Ufa, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Tyumen, and CIS countries - Ashgabat, Alma-Ata, Shymkent, Baku, Yerevan, Bishkek, Osh, Dushanbe, Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa. This is the first disaster in the seven-year history of the company.
The crashed Boeing was part of air fleet FlyDubai since 2011. He made his first flight on December 21, 2010. The Boeing 737-800 passenger aircraft, according to Planefinder.net., is a representative of the NG (Next Generation) generation of the Boeing 737 family. The liner was designed to replace the 737-400 model and features a new wing, tail unit, digital instrument panel and more advanced engines. The Boeing 737-800 has been in operation since April 1998 and is the most popular model among all NG generation aircraft.
The most massive passenger liner
The Boeing 737 is the most massive passenger aircraft in aviation history. On April 16, 2014, the manufacturer released the eight thousandth copy. Boeing currently has an order book for nearly 4,000 aircraft of this type, including 111 aircraft for FlyDubai. The Boeing 737 is so widely used that there are an average of 1,200 such aircraft in the air at any given moment, and one 737 takes off and lands every 5 seconds in the world. Actually "Boeing 737" - common name more than ten types aircraft. Produced by the Boeing Corporation since 1967. Since the start of operation, a total of 188 aircraft of this type have been lost.
In Russia, the first disaster occurred in 2008. On September 14, a Boeing 737-505 airliner of Aeroflot-Nord airline made a regular passenger flight SU821 on the Moscow-Perm route. When landing, having not flown about 11 kilometers to Perm's Bolshoye Savino airport, the liner crashed and completely collapsed. All 88 people on board were killed - 82 passengers and 6 crew members. The cause of the crash is pilot error. The crew lost their spatial orientation and inadvertently dumped the car into a tailspin.
Two weeks later, on October 1, 2008, another incident occurred with a Boeing 737. At Khrabrovo Airport in Kaliningrad emergency landing the plane of the airline "KD avia" with the landing gear retracted. As a result, none of the 138 passengers and 6 crew members were injured.
On November 17, 2013, a Boeing 737-500 airliner of Tatarstan Airlines crashed at Kazan International Airport. All 50 people on board were killed. Finally, the official causes of the disaster are not named. According to one version, the accident occurred due to a failure of the elevator control systems. According to another, the cause was a crew error during piloting. The investigation into the crash is ongoing.
List of dead
The list of passengers on board the Boeing-737-800 of the FlyDubai airline, which crashed at the airport of Rostov-on-Don, is published on the website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
1. Larissa Allen
2. Zhanna Andreeva
3. Elvira Belyakova
4. Viktor Bespechnov
5. Victoria Bevzyuk
6. Marina Bevzyuk
7. Julia Bezglasnaya
8. Sergei Bezglasny
9. Galina Bolgova
10. Alexander Bozhko
11. Olga Bozhko
12. Alina Berezina
13. Konstantin Chebotarev
14. Svetlana Chebotareva
15. Dmitry Chernov
16. Elena Chernova
17. Kirill Chistyakov
18. Oleg Chistyakov
19. Victoria Chistyakova
20. Volodymyr Fedyanin
21. Valery Gamov
22. Ludmila Goncharova
23. Elena Kaliberda
24. Sergey Kaliberda
25. Olesya Karavantseva
26. Irina Karpenko
27. Anjou Catervel Ayapan
28. Olga Klimenko
29. Pavel Koposov
30. Anastasia Koposova
31. Koposova Daria
32. Koposova Ludmila
33. Raisa Loboda
34. Mayachenkova Olga
35. Sayam Mokhon
36. Inna Negodaeva
37. Anna Osipova
38. Galina Pakus
39. Igor Pakus
40. Alexey Shantsin
41. Irina Shantsina
42. Nikolay Shpilchenko
43. Valentina Somina
44. Anna Shershieva
45. Natalia Tarasenko
46. Svitlana Tsekhelska
47. Danilo Tsikhelski
48. Pavlo Tsikhelsky
49. Natalia Veremeevskaya
50. Alexander Veremeevsky
51. Vitaly Veremeevsky
52. Valentina Voronova
53. Larisa Zheved
54. Tatyana Kravchenko
Governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev declared Sunday a day of mourning. "The government will provide assistance to the relatives of the victims," he said.
The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) published the causes of the crash of the Boeing 737-800 of the FlyDubai company in Rostov-on-Don, which occurred on March 19, 2016. As follows from the official statement of the IAC, the actual weather in the area of the Rostov-on-Don airfield at the moment aviation accident in line with forecast weather. “The meteorological equipment used to monitor weather parameters at the Rostov-on-Don airfield was verified, serviceable and operational,” the IAC report says. Flight meteorological support Boeing aircraft 737-800 No. A6-FDN of FlyDubai, which operated flight FDB981 on the route Dubai — Rostov-on-Don, also complied with the requirements of regulatory and governing documents.
Based on the results of a preliminary analysis of the information from the flight recorders, it was established that the aircraft crew was performing a landing approach in manual piloting mode (autopilot off) in adverse weather conditions (lower cloud cover 630 m, wind 230 degrees 13 m/s, gusts 18 m/s, weak heavy rain, haze, strong turbulence and moderate wind shear).
During the first landing approach at 22.42 UTC at an altitude of 340 m, having received information from the on-board system about "wind shear" (a sharp change in the strength and direction of the wind),
the crew decided to "go around", after which they flew in the airport area in anticipation of better weather conditions.
During the re-landing approach, which also took place in the manual control mode, the crew at an altitude of 220 m (4 km before the runway) again decided to go around. At an altitude of 900 m, simultaneously with the recoil by the crew of the steering wheel “away from you”, the aircraft stabilizer was deflected by five degrees into a dive,
as a result, the aircraft "passed into an energetic descent with the implementation of vertical overload to -1 units." The subsequent actions of the crew did not prevent the aircraft from colliding with the ground.
The collision occurred at a speed of more than 600 km / h with a pitch angle for a dive of more than 50 degrees.
The IAC report notes that the pilots of the aircraft held valid pilot licences, completed the necessary training, had sufficient flight time on this type of aircraft, and all Required documents. According to the commission, the total flight time of the crew commander was 5965 hours, flight time for Boeing - 2597 hours, of which 1005 hours as a PIC.
Meanwhile, as the newspaper found out. Ru",
The Federal Air Transport Agency has already demanded that airlines operating Boeing conduct retraining and additional training for pilots.
This is stated in the newsletter (available at the disposal of Gazeta.Ru), which was distributed by the department.
As follows from the document, the supervisory agency recommends that the heads of civil aviation organizations operating Boeing-737 aircraft of all modifications re-examine the go-around procedure with the flight crew. It is also proposed to include in the flight crew training program regular training on the FFS simulator, testing the crew's actions to recover the aircraft from a difficult spatial position and practicing go-around.
In addition, it was recommended to re-examine the materials of the investigation into the crash of the Boeing-737 aircraft of the Tatarstan airline at the Kazan airport in November 2013. According to employees of the Federal Air Transport Agency, this accident is similar to the one in Rostov.
Then the crew of the aircraft, going to the second circle due to difficult weather conditions, also brought the aircraft to critical angles of attack and "dropped" it as a result of loss of speed and further uncoordinated actions of the pilots.
During the investigation of that catastrophe, an experiment was conducted on a simulator to take the aircraft to the second circle. 11 experienced pilots took part in the experiment, but only four people completed the task. Pilots of five Russian airlines with different flight experience and professional status (PIC-instructor, PIC, co-pilot), including pilots who underwent retraining from navigators and flight engineers, took part in the experiment.
During the tests, it turned out that
during their flight practice, only seven pilots performed a real go-around (from one to four go-arounds).
Four pilots did not have such practice in real flights. Go-around actions are practiced on a simulator, and low-altitude go-around (LL) is practiced mainly, and mainly on one engine. According to the pilots, go-around from an intermediate height was not used in training practice. As a result, none of the pilots correctly answered all seven questions regarding the logic of the joint operation of the automatic systems of the aircraft, and four, remembering their school years, tried to use the "cheat sheets" on mobile devices.
“Moreover, after performing the go-around mode on the simulator, two pilots claimed that the go-around occurred in automatic mode, that is, under the autopilot (and this is with the autopilot disengagement alarm working!). This indicates both an insufficient level of necessary knowledge and a gap between theoretical knowledge and practical skills,” MAK shrugged his shoulders.
One pilot (and twice!) failed to control the go-around and actually brought the car into stall mode, just like the pilots of the Boeing that crashed in Kazan.
FlyDubai flight FZ-981 from Dubai crashed while re-landing at Rostov-on-Don airport
At the airport of Rostov-on-Don, a passenger Boeing crashed, carrying 62 people, of which 55 were passengers, seven more were crew members. They all died. According to preliminary information, the liner crashed during a re-landing approach. Poor visibility may have been the cause of the crash. MKRU is broadcasting the incident online.
20.50 The operational headquarters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that the runway of the Rostov airport was completely cleared.
20.36 The commander of the Boeing 737-800 of the Flydubai airline, Aristos Sokratus, a citizen of Cyprus, was on his last flight before his dismissal. He decided to return to his homeland, as he had recently married and his wife was expecting a child.
20.01 Recreated the picture of the fall of the "Boeing": airplane could not sit down the first time, went to the second round, then to the third. "At an altitude of about 900 m at a speed of more than 400 km / h, the liner rolled to the left and almost vertically, at an angle of 60 degrees, crashed into the ground closer to the left edge of the runway," TASS reports.
19.29 Flydubai Executive Director Gate al-Ghait said that the decision to circle around the city for two hours was made by the commander of the liner, RT reports.
18.34 Flydubai continues toaces from Russian cities from Dubai. The airline operates flights to Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Krasnodar, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, Samara and Ufa, Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk.
18.19 Version: "Boeing" could fall into a "tailspin" due to a malfunction of the elevator. This version of the tragedy was voiced to Interfax by a source in the operational headquarters. According to him, the plane hit the ground at an angle of 45-50 degrees.
17.45 IAC experts and specialists do not yet have an understanding of the causes of the crash of the Boeing aircraft, TASS reports. Only a preliminary picture of the catastrophe itself has been recreated.
17.01 The governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev said that the relatives of those killed in the Boeing plane crash began to receive compensation. For this, 8 specialized points have been opened in Rostov, as well as one point each in the municipalities where there are victims of the disaster,” he said.
16.20 The authorities of the Rostov region have established contact with all relatives of 55 victims of the plane crash in Rostov-on-Don.
15.57 The case of the Dubai Boeing has been transferred to the Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. This was announced with reference to the head of the department Alexander Bastrykin, the official representative of the UK Vladimir Markin.
15.38 The first planes took off from the airport Rost-on-Don after the Boeing crash. "Today, two test flights took off from the airport, we plan to release four more. Tonight, by the evening, it will be known when the first flight with passengers will fly," he said First Deputy Governor of the Rostov Region Alexander Grebenshchikov RIA Novosti.
15.18 The airfield runway was damaged on an area of 300 square meters. The Ministry of Emergency Situations plans to spend about 12 hours on its restoration and open the airport by 9 am on Monday.
15.05 At the airport of Rostov-on-Don, they began to clear the runway from the wreckage of the liner. Earlier it was reported that the head of the Investigative Committee allowed these works to begin, apparently, the investigators had finished examining the place of the emergency.
14:52 Read report of our correspondent from the airport of Rostov-on-Don: .
14.20 A Riga police officer wrote on his Facebook page that there was “nothing terrible in the plane crash in Rostov-on-Don, because there were mostly Russian citizens there.” The city authorities decide on the punishment of the law enforcement officer.
13.59 A representative of the representative of the air carrier Gate al-Geyt at a briefing in Rostov Gate al-Geyt at a briefing in Rostov said that the conditions at the airport for landing the liner were good. He also noted that the airline has full confidence in the Russian side in the investigation.
13.48 Bastrykin, who arrived at the scene of the emergency, allowed the Boeing wreckage to be removed from the scene of the tragedy at the airport
12.58 Aleksey Kudelya, representative of the Federal Air Transport Agency in the Krasnoyarsk Territory: "Landing at an unscheduled airport involves extra expenses - you need to accommodate passengers, organize a transfer, and pay for the maintenance of the vessel. In the case when the board simply produces fuel, the expenses are less"
12.53 The IAC reported that the "black boxes" of the aircraft were severely mechanically damaged.
12.06 Head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin arrived at the airport of Rostov-on-Don
11.35 The IAC said that the decoding of the "black boxes" will begin on Monday and may take about a month, RIA Novosti reports.
11.33 Sokolov said that restoration work on the runway at the Rostov-on-Don airport will begin at night, the airport is scheduled to open in the morning on Monday.
11.19 Source: 183 fragments of human bodies at the crash site.
11.11 Aeroflot will transport the relatives of those killed in the plane crash to Rostov-on-Don free of charge.
11.01 On the Day of Mourning, residents of Rostov-on-Don bring flowers to the airfield building. A temporary memorial has been created in honor of the dead, where a black poster with the names of all the dead is installed.
10.25 Payments have already been made to the families of those killed in the plane crash. "There are 8 points in Rostov and one in other cities," said the governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev.
9.55 Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov called the timeframe for the examination of the remains of the bodies - up to two weeks
9.30 Search and rescue operations have been completed.
9.16 In Russia, they do not intend to close the sky for the Flydubai airline after the crash in Rostov-on-Don.
9.00 Search and rescue operations at the Boeing crash site in Rostov-on-Don are almost over.
08:41 - Foreign experts arrived at the crash site.
06:38 - Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations continue to work at the crash site of a Boeing at the airport of Rostov-on-Don. "The weather is favorable," a representative of the regional head office of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation told RIA Novosti.
04:25 - The translation of the radio exchange between the controllers of the airport of Rostov-on-Don and the crew of the crashed Boeing is published on the website of the International Consultative and Analytical Agency Flight Safety.
It follows from the transcript that the air traffic controllers informed the pilots about weather conditions, in particular the speed of gusts and heavy rain, as well as severe turbulence. According to the record, the crew of flight FZ-981 did not inform the controllers about emergency situations on board the liner. Negotiations end with a message from the pilot about the decision to go around. "I'm leaving for my second lap, Sky Dubai 981. 1212, bye bye," he said.
03:39 - Condolences to Russia were expressed by the authorities of Egypt. “In these difficult moments, the government and people of Egypt are together with the Russians,” the statement said.
02:17 - In Rostov-on-Don, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations continue to search for fragments of the bodies of those killed at the crash site of the Boeing.
01:35 - The FlyDubai airline, which owned the crashed plane, will pay an additional $20,000 to the families of the victims, Life News reports.
00:38 - In connection with the crash of flight FZ-981, Prime Minister of Moldova Pavel Filip sent condolences to the Russian people.
00:12 - The black boxes of the crashed Boeing were delivered to Moscow by a special board of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. They were sent to the Interstate Aviation Committee.
00:05 - A funeral ceremony with the laying of flowers in memory of those killed in a plane crash at the airport of Rostov-on-Don will be held on Sunday in the terminal building, the government of the Rostov region reported.
23:50 - "Boeing" could fall when trying to go to the third landing circle, and not the second, as previously reported. This was told by a source in emergency services, writes TASS.
23:41 - Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj confirmed the death of two Indian citizens in the crash of a Boeing.
23:32 - According to the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov, it will take about ten hours to restore the runway and lighting equipment at the airport of Rostov-on-Don.
23:20 - The members of the crew of the crashed Boeing did not give distress signals, Interfax writes, citing a source.
23:12 - The crashed Boeing of FlyDubai could have fallen at speeds of more than 300 km/h from a height of about 900 meters, a source in emergency services said. One of the reasons for the fall, according to him, could be that at a critical moment before landing the departure for the next circle, the board could not withstand the maximum loads, taking into account gusty winds and adverse weather conditions.
In addition, a version is being considered that the aircraft crashed due to a lack of thrust at the maximum loads experienced by the aircraft.
22:50 - Residents of Kyiv carry flowers to the Russian embassy, mourning the victims of a plane crash in Rostov-on-Don, writes the Ukrainian edition of Vesti.
22:19 - The head of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, Maxim Sokolov, said that the airport of Rostov-on-Don could receive planes on Saturday. This, according to him, is evidenced by indicators of wind and visibility.
22:15 - Investigators fly to Russia from the United States to assist in the investigation of the plane crash.
21:53 - Data reading from the flight recorders will start tomorrow.
21:39 - A special board of the Ministry of Emergency Situations with "black boxes" flew to Moscow.
20:55 - Very sadly and symbolically this time the "Earth Hour" began in Moscow. On this day, the lighting of buildings is turned off. But now the Kremlin, Red Square, the White House have also plunged into darkness as a token of memory for those who died in Rostov-on-Don. Dozens of people with candles are standing on Red Square.
20:38 - There was a message that a reserve flight FlyDubai took off from the Krasnodar airport. It will deliver passengers to the UAE who were supposed to fly on vacation from Rostov-on-Don by the same crashed Boeing. We previously reported that there were 140 such passengers, including many children. But now it is reported that in the end only 80 people flew, the rest refused after everything that had happened.
20:37 - All work of the Investigative Committee on the territory of the airport has been suspended until seven in the morning, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in emergency services.
20:02 - Meanwhile, all the bodies and fragments of the bodies of the dead have already been collected from the runway. They are sent to the morgue. Now the forensic experts have to work. This was told by the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov. He added that the personal belongings of the dead were also collected. When the investigators finally leave runway, but special services will begin work on clearing and repairing the runway.
19:54 - Our colleague from "MK in Rostov" sent a report from the Rostov airport. . “Everyone says that the plane’s engine caught fire, and it fell already burning, at a right angle,” said Maria. “Our relative was at the scene of the tragedy. He says that the sight is terrible. There was nothing left of people. Pieces, small fragments. Identify will be by DNA ... ", one of the relatives of the deceased during the crash told us in an interview.
19:21 - Here in the comments, some readers did not agree with our expert that . But on the radio "KP" the chairman of the Civil Aviation Commission Public Council Rostransnadzor Oleg Smirnov actually confirmed this version: "This is not only fuel consumption, but also transportation fees at another airport, and accommodation of passengers while waiting. These are very large expenses. Tens of thousands of dollars." He also said that "effective managers" who are not related to aviation are often put in charge of airlines. Their task is to ensure maximum profit. They begin to scold the pilots for go-around, etc. Therefore, pilots begin to take risks. Yes, the plane, if it circled for two hours, burned a lot of fuel, but the pilot did not think that he would circle for two hours, he initially thought about avoiding a flight not to the destination airport. Well, this is one version. Perhaps after deciphering the black boxes there will be additional facts, then we will again interrogate experts using new data.
19:14 - According to the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov, the main phase of search work has already been completed at the Rostov airport. But the surveys will continue until midnight.
19:08 - Meanwhile, it became known about another happy case when the Russian woman did not get on the ill-fated Boeing. How did the 34-year-old Elvira Isayeva was celebrating her birthday in Dubai with a friend until late at night, returned to the hotel late and was late for the transfer.She has now been extended her stay at the hotel by 4 days and will return to Russia later. Sometimes it happens...
18:49 - A 3D reconstruction of the Boeing crash in Rostov-on-Don, prepared by the LifeNews portal, has been published online. As you can see in the video, the plane began to descend sharply in front of the runway, first touching the ground with its tail and wing, and then "dived" with its nose and exploded.
18:40 - Here are some conflicting reports coming in about the scatter of the wreckage. Now the correspondent of "Russia-24" said live that the wreckage is scattered over a territory of 1 km. In its turn The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, Vladimir Puchkov, said that the search area was divided into seven parts and specialists examined literally every centimeter. Work will be carried out around the clock.
18:09 - Muscovites, meanwhile, literally filled up with flowers and toys the Representative Office of the Government of the Rostov Region under the Government of the Russian Federation in Bolshoi Ovchinnikovsky Lane, 26, building 4. Also, notes with words of sorrow are left on the spot, candles are lit.
18:04 - As a source in emergency services told TASS, the Boeing fell almost vertically and literally entered the ground with its nose. The wreckage of the aircraft is small and compact.
17:56 - But in social networks there was a curious message from a passenger of the previous flight 1166, en route from Moscow to Rostov on the same night. He reports that the pilot of this plane decided to leave for Krasnodar after three unsuccessful landing attempts. According to the passenger, when landing, he was shaking like on an old body. He also writes that he was angry, like other passengers, with the crew, and now he has a feeling of shame. "In the meantime, guys, say thank you without saying anything, bow to the ground, respect for professionalism, good luck! I drink to your health !!! And I will drink all day today !!!" - writes the passenger.
17:45 - The regional administration reported that the Rostov airport would be checked for safety before opening. They also said that on Monday forensic experts could start the procedure for identifying the remains of the victims of the crash, RIA Novosti reports.
14:09 - It was confirmed that out of 140 people who were supposed to fly on this plane from Rostov to Dubai, more than 50 people refused to fly on another FlyDubai plane from Krasnodar. This is about 40% of sold seats.
14:07 - Insurance "Ingosstrakh", which was all the tourists "Natalie Tours" flying on the crashed "Boeing" in this case does not work. RBC journalists found out that it was purely medical insurance, which does not include payments for accidents.
14:00 - The same publication reports that when the Boeing crashed, it punched a meter-long hole near the runway.
13:58 - Meanwhile, according to LifeNews, doctors checked for alcohol the entire shift of dispatchers who worked during the crash of the Boeing in Rostov-on-Don. No alcohol abusers were identified. Doctors said that this is a standard procedure after an emergency.
13:55 - As it turned out, one of the tourists "Art Tour" could not fly to rest in Dubai with his wife. He simply lost his passport. And his wife flew away and returned just on this flight.
13:36 - We continue to discuss what happened with our experts. Test pilot, Hero of Russia Anatoly Knyshov told MK that the automation had to cope with the task of landing in a strong side wind. However, pilots could land manually, either due to an automatic failure or for the sake of training. Read material.
13:16 - The press conference of the Executive Director of Flydubai, Ghaith al-Ghaith, has begun. He reported, firstly, that the crew commander had excellent experience and 5965 flight hours. He was a citizen of Cyprus and the co-pilot was from Spain. He also stated that if the weather in Rostov-on-Don had been unsuitable, the plane simply would not have flown. The aircraft itself was new and produced in 2011, and the last inspection was on January 21. Also, al-Gheit called the non-standard situation that the plane tried to land for two hours and said that the airline was checking this information.
13:03 - And here is how events affect the most different people. The lawyer of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko said that due to the closure of the airport in Rostov-on-Don, journalists and defenders may be late for the trial.
By the way, in connection with the crashed plane in Rostov-on-Don, the airport is closed. The media, as well as lawyers, may not get to Savchenko’s trial
Mark Feygin (@mark_feygin) March 19, 2016
12:55 - Meanwhile, the head of the administration of Rostov-on-Don, Sergei Gorban, decided to allocate lump sum payments of 200 thousand rubles to the families of those killed in the Boeing crash. On Sunday, March 20, a day of mourning has been declared in the Rostov region.
12:53 - According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, rescuers found parametric recorder, the crashed Boeing. Speech has already been discovered earlier. Thus, the investigation now has both black boxes in its hands. Now experts are determining the status of the devices found and then decoding will begin.
12:33 - Another aviation specialist answered MKRU's question why the pilot of the crashed Boeing did not decide to leave for an alternate airfield, although the controllers spoke about strong winds, and he had already unsuccessfully tried to land the plane twice. The expert suggests that the possible losses of the airline are to blame, when landing not at the destination airport. Read material
12:12 - Meanwhile, the governor of the Rostov region, Vasily Golubev, on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel, said that work at the site of the tragedy at the Rostov-on-Don airport would be carried out all daylight hours.
12:09 - The representative of the consular department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Yevgeny Ignatovsky, specified the number of citizens of the country who were on board the crashed Boeing. There are seven adults and one child. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry promises maximum assistance to the relatives of the victims who decide to go to Rostov-on-Don. He also assured that the Consulate General of Ukraine in Russia, after the procedure for identifying the victims, would decide on the repatriation of the remains of Ukrainian citizens to Ukraine.
11:56 - According to RIA Novosti. Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Flydubai and President of the UAE Department of Civil Aviation, personally led the crisis team, which was created in connection with the crash of the Boeing.
11:54 - Meanwhile, eyewitnesses report that there are buses near the Rostov airfield that carry passengers to Krasnodar, in the event that their flights were transferred to the Krasnodar airport. And residents of Rostov-on-Don have already begun to bring flowers to the airport terminal. As for the weather. Now in Rostov-on-Don, instead of snow, it is snowing and quite heavy. This, of course, complicates the work of emergency services at the scene of the tragedy, but they continue.
11:51 - Dmitry Medvedev gave instructions to create a government commission in connection with the crash of the Boeing. She will deal with both the elimination of the consequences of the disaster and the provision of assistance to the families of the victims.
11:37 - The correspondent of "MK" talked with Russian experts, who named important details of the fall of the Boeing in Rostov-on-Don. Check it out. We are talking, in particular, about such a phenomenon as "wind shear", which can cause a loss of lift on one of the wings, after which the aircraft falls on one wing and falls. Experts also point out that for operation in the CIS countries, these aircraft must be equipped with an alarm when bank angles are reached. At the same time, the plane just fell with a big roll. It is not yet known whether such a system was installed on this side.
11:25 - The Aeroflot website reports that all flights of this airline for arrival and departure from the airport of Rostov-on-Don are canceled. The airport itself is now closed. Part of the flights was moved to Krasnodar, the other was postponed. At the same time, Sochi International Airport announced that it was operating normally and was ready to receive flights as an alternate airfield. However, as reported, so far there is no such need.
11:00 - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan confirmed the death of a citizen of this country during the crash of a Boeing. It is reported that 27-year-old Zhyldyz Nasirdinova worked on this flight as a flight attendant.
10:49 - Repeat phones hotline of the Ministry of Emergency Situations on the disaster in Rostov-on-Don: 8-863-23-99999 or 8-800-775-17-17
10:44 - FlyDubai airline clarified the citizenship of the passengers of the liner that crashed in Rostov: 44 - Russia, 8 - Ukraine, 2 - India, 1 - Uzbekistan. Only 55 people. At the same time, it turned out that a number of these passengers had a residence permit in the UAE and permanently resided in this country, but there were no UAE citizens. The citizenship of the seven crew members, in turn, was announced at the Russian Consulate General in Dubai: Spain - 2, Russia - 1, Kyrgyzstan - 1, Cyprus - 1, Seychelles - 1, Colombia - 1.
10:36 - In addition to 30 people who bought tickets to Natalie Tours, there were three tourists from the ART Tour operator on board the plane. The company has already offered condolences to the families of the victims.
10:33 - Not only specialists from the Interstate Aviation Committee, but also experts from the United Arab Emirates, the United States and France will be investigating the crash, TASS reports. These are international agreements and rules. The board was registered in the United Arab Emirates, the United States is the developer and manufacturer of Boeing aircraft, and France developed the engine for this aircraft.
10:24 - And now, in the Southern Investigation Department for Transport of the TFR, two main versions of the disaster were named: "pilot error due to worsening weather conditions or a technical malfunction." According to the latest data, the pilot tried to land the plane three times.
10:18 - According to the latest data, there were 45 Russian citizens on board the plane. Also on board were seven citizens of Ukraine, one from Uzbekistan, one from India. There were 4 children among the passengers.
10:14 - And just now it became known that the rescuers found one of the black boxes of the crashed plane. It is not yet clear what state it is in and whether it is a voice recorder or a parametric recorder, TASS reports.
10:00 - According to the recording of the conversations between pilots and controllers, there was no emergency situation. At the same time, during the negotiations, gusty winds were reported, but the crew said that turbulence was not observed. The voices of the pilots were calm.
9:51 - The REN-TV channel showed an interview with one of the eyewitnesses of the incident. He said that he saw from the window of the car how the plane was coming in for landing, while he was strong wind that even rocked the car. He expressed bewilderment that planes landed in such a wind. He also said that the weather turned bad on Friday and was surprised that the airport was not closed.
9:44 - The site of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation could not withstand the load and is now unavailable. Too many requests because of what happened. List of passengers You can also look at the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Rostov Region, it is now working.
9:39 - Citizens of Ukraine were also on board the Boeing. True, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and the Ukrainian consulate report different data. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says about 7 citizens, the consulate says that 8 citizens of Ukraine were killed.
9:35 - And now it turns out that the plane was supposed to deliver back to Dubai from Rostov-on-Don 140 tourists. And there are many children among them. Now the passengers of this flight are now traveling by bus to Krasndora, where the airline will send another flight for them. But it is possible that many will refuse to fly, after what happened.
9:28 - Very often, after such disasters, photographs appear on the Web that passengers took on the eve of departure. This is how one of the passengers of this flight, Daria Kolosova, was photographed the day before departure near the hotel in Dubai, where she apparently stayed with her family.
9:21 - So, what is known now about the crash itself and the versions of what happened. The Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that the plane was destroyed upon impact with the ground at the very beginning of the runway, after which it caught fire. At the same time, eyewitnesses say that they saw a flash just before the plane crashed, and after that an explosion followed. The Ministry of Transport is talking about difficult weather conditions and a possible pilot error. However, a law enforcement source told Interfax that it could also be a technical malfunction, since the pilots tried to land the plane as early as 1:35, but then refused and circled for two hours, running out of fuel. The second landing attempt at 3:30 ended in disaster.
9:18 - According to the Federal Tourism Agency, there were 30 tourists on board the plane who bought vouchers from the Natalie Tours company. They were insured by Ingosstrakh.
9:12 - The Spanish Consulate in Rostov-on-Don confirmed the death of its citizens. It can be assumed that we are talking about crew members, the squeaks are: Alava Cruz Alejandro and Curbelo Caro Javier Alejandro.
09:00 - An updated list of passengers of flight No. 981 appeared on the website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation.
08:58 - Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of the Boeing crash in Rostov-on-Don.
08:52 - Among the seven crew members were six foreigners - Socratous Aristos, Alava Cruz Alejandro, Curbelo Caro Javier Alejandro, Confait Alex Dominic Yoram, Delacruz Laura Patricia, Nazirdinova Zhulduz, as well as Russian citizen Maxim Audrus, RIA Novosti reports.
08:49 - Relatives of the victims will be paid one million rubles each, writes TASS.
08:35 - The victims of the crash were the wife and daughter of the head of the Azov district of the Rostov region, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the regional government.
08:24 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed his support to the families of the dead passengers of flight FZ-981.
08:21 - The flight of the aircraft took place in the normal mode, the air traffic control service noted, TASS reports.
08:17 - According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the "black boxes" of the crashed liner have not yet been found.
08:11 - The remains of the dead were found at the crash site. It is noted that some of them were badly burned, Interfax writes.
07:58 - The crash of the Boeing 737-800 in Rostov-on-Don was the first plane crash for FlyDubai, TASS reports.
07:56 - The site of the Dubai airline FlyDubai was painted in mourning black and white colors. Ticket sales for all flights are temporarily suspended.
07:53 - According to a source in emergency services, all crew members are citizens of the United Arab Emirates, TASS informs.
07:39 - When a Boeing crashed in Rostov-on-Don, a deputy died Legislative Assembly Igor Pakus and his wife, Life News reports.
07:36 - 25 psychologists work with relatives of the victims of the plane crash, TASS writes.
07:25 - On the fact of the crash of the Boeing in Rostov-on-Don, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on violation of flight safety rules.
07:22 “Families and relatives of the victims arrived on the scene. There are about 600 people in total, TASS informs.
07:21 - Citizens of Ukraine and Uzbekistan could be on board the crashed Boeing, reports Life News.
07:19 - FlyDubai airliner fell to the ground at an angle. According to TASS, the spread of bodies and debris is about 150 meters.
07:18 - Passengers heading to Rostov-on-Don are ready to receive the airports of the Caucasian Mineralnye Vody and Krasnodar, according to the National Crisis Management Center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
07:15 - Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov and head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Alexander Neradko flew to the scene, TASS reports.
07:11 - According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, there were 11 foreigners on board the crashed Boeing, including the entire crew.
06:57 - Boeing crashed at 03:41 Moscow time, 253 meters from the runway.
06:49 - Communication with the crew was lost a few seconds after the second landing approach was confirmed, Interfax reports.
06:48 - Chapter National Center Crisis management of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia Viktor Yatsutsenko specified that more than 700 people and 90 pieces of equipment are working at the scene.
06:45 - According to the Flightradar portal, the Boeing made ten extra laps before landing.
06:41 - The age of the collapsed "Boeing" is five years, reports RIA Novosti.
06:40 - Governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev said that there were 55 passengers and seven crew members on board the crashed airliner.
06:30 - Ministry of Emergency Situations publishes pictures from the crash site.
06:28 - Most of those on board the crashed passenger liner were residents of Rostov-on-Don, TASS reports with reference to the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
06:25 - Flydubai, the low-cost airline of the United Arab Emirates, which owned the crashed plane, has launched an investigation into the crash of the FZ981, Flydubai said in a statement on its Facebook page.
06:20 - Three passengers of the liner were foreigners, writes RIA Novosti.
06:19 - On board the aircraft were, among other things, tourists who rested on vouchers of tour operators with their whole families, Interfrax reports.
06:16 - 114 rescuers are working at the scene, according to Life News
06:12 - In Boeing-737-800 there are from 162 to 189 passenger seats ..
06:09 - The Governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev said that there were four children on board the plane.
05:58 - According to the Flightradar website, the Boeing circled Rostov-on-Don after the first landing attempt failed. TASS estimated that it lasted about two hours.
05:57 - Became known the list of passengers who died in the crash of "Boeing" airline Flydubai in Rostov-on-Don, reports Life News.
List of passengers:
1. Larissa Allen
2. Ganna Andrieva
3. Elvira Belyakova
4. Viktor Bespechnov
5. Victoria Bevzyuk
6. Marina Bevzyuk
7. Julia Bezglasnaya
8. Sergei Bezglasny
9. Galina Bolgova
10. Alexander Bozhko
11. Olga Bozhko
12. Alina Berezina
13. Konstantin Chebotarev
14. Svetlana Chebotareva
15. Dmitry Chernov
16. Elena Chernova
17. Kirill Chistyakov
18. Oleg Chistyakov
19. Victoria Chistyakova
20. Vladimir Fedyanin
21. Valery Gamov
22. Ludmila Goncharova
23. Elena Kaliberda
24. Sergey Kaliberda
25. Olesya Karavantseva
26. Irina Karpenko
27. Katirveli Ayapan
28. Olga Klimenko
29. Pavel Koposov
30. Anastasia Koposova
31. Koposova Daria
32. Koposova Ludmila
33. Raisa Loboda
35. Siam Mohan
36. Inna Negodaeva
37. Anna Osipova
38. Galina Pakus
39. Igor Pakus
40. Alexey Shantsin
41. Irina Shantsina
42. Nikolay Shlipchenko
43. Valentina Somina
44. Manna Serhieva
45. Natalia Tarasenko
46. Svitlana Tsekhelska
47. Danilo Tsikhelski
48. Pavlo Tsikhelsky
49. Natalia Veremeevskaya
50. Alexander Veremeyvsky
51. Vitaly Veremeevsky
52. Valentina Voronova
53. Larisa Zheved
54. Tatyana Kravchenko
55. Nikolay Karpenko
05:49 - This is how the route looks in online monitoring systems.
05:41 - The plane was supposed to land in Rostov at 3:49. Aircraft brand - Boeing 737-800. They were launched in 1998.
05:37 - Presumably, all the passengers of the crashed plane are Russians, RIA Novosti reports. According to the agency, the crew members are foreigners.
05:36 - The pilots of the crashed Boeing did not inform the dispatcher and ground services about the emergency situation on board the aircraft, Life News reports.
05:35 - Rescue services say that part of the wreckage of the aircraft lies at a distance of one and a half kilometers from the crash site.
05:34 - Rostov-on-Don airport is closed. Several flights were delayed, two of which were to fly to St. Petersburg, the rest - to Moscow. Flights that were supposed to arrive at the airport of Rostov-on-Don are sent to the reserve airfield in Krasnodar.
05:33 - "Boeing" collapsed on contact with the ground and an explosion occurred, according to the RF IC.
05:29 - The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation began an inspection in connection with the crash of a passenger plane in Rostov-on-Don.
05:27 - In connection with the Boeing crash in Rostov-on-Don, the Ministry of Emergency Situations opened " hotline": 8-800-775-17-17. A group of psychological assistance has been sent to the airport.
05:21 - The representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Igor Oder, told Interfax that there was no fire after all: parts of the aircraft were scattered within a radius of one kilometer. According to Oder, the devastating impact could have occurred when the plane caught on the runway on landing.
05:20 - News agencies report that the emergency happened during the landing approach: it fell apart and ignited.
05:15 - So far, there are two preliminary versions of what happened - bad weather conditions and pilot error. Weather monitors show that it is now raining in Rostov-on-Don, the temperature is about 6 degrees Celsius.
There have been no statements about the version of the terrorist attack yet. The aircraft was on flight FZ-981 from the United Arab Emirates. Departure at 21:45 on Friday local time.
05:10 There were 61 people on board the Boeing that crashed in Rostov-on-Don, all died, TASS reports citing a source.
04:11 - Passenger Boeing-738 crashed near Rostov-on-Don, TASS reports. According to preliminary data, the aircraft crashed while landing. There were 55 people on board.
The tragedy in Rostov-on-Don happened on the night of March 18-19, 2016. The Boeing 737 crashed while landing. The aircraft was performing regular flight from the United Arab Emirates.
The crew tried to land in difficult weather conditions for two hours, but failed. All died. There were 62 people on board. The investigation of the plane crash in Rostov is being conducted by the Interstate Aviation Committee together with specialists from the United Arab Emirates, Russia, France and the United States.
Board number 981
Airplane, wrecked in Rostov-on-Don, owned by Fly Dubai. This is a state-owned low-cost airline from the UAE. It is run by 57-year-old Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, who owns another well-known Airline.
In turn, Fly Dubai has been operating since 2009, performing regular and charter flights almost 50 countries in a hundred directions. Including 10 Russian cities. To Rostov-on-Don - twice a week for the last three years. The company had only Boeings on its balance sheet.
It is worth noting that the carrier was distinguished by high safety indicators. Before the plane crash in Rostov-on-Don, the company had not had a single accident with human casualties. After the tragedy, the pilots of the airline, on condition of anonymity, admitted to foreign media that they often experienced overwork, as the work schedule was too busy, and they could not fully relax.
Boeing 737
The crashed Boeing was a relatively new aircraft. It was built in the USA in 2011 specifically for Fly Dubai. was equipped with two turbofan engines. At the time of the accident, it spent more than 21,000 hours in the air, completing more than 9,000 take-off and landing cycles. The airliner never needed repairs, maintenance was done on time and without problems. Last time- two months before the disaster.
At the same time, the plane was not overcrowded: the liner was designed to carry 189 passengers, on the same day there were only 55 people on board, not counting the crew members. The fuel should have been enough for 8 and a half hours of flight, the plane stayed in the air for no more than 6 hours.
Crew Composition
The liner was operated by the ship's commander, 38-year-old Aristos Sokratus, a native of Cyprus. In his practice, almost 6 thousand hours of flight. It is worth noting that Fly Dubai, like most other airlines, did not appoint a pilot who did not fly 5,000 hours as a commander.
Socrates had been working as a ship commander for a year and a half. At the same time, on the eve of the plane crash in Rostov, he submitted a letter of resignation. According to colleagues, this was due to overwork and heavy workloads at Fly Dubai. Less than a month after the tragedy, his first child was born in his family.
The co-pilot was 37-year-old Spaniard Alejandro Alava Cruz. He also had nearly 6,000 hours of flying experience. Both pilots landed in Rostov not for the first time.
Also among the crew members were 5 flight attendants - natives of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Colombia, Spain and Seychelles.
Weather
Many associate the causes of the plane crash in Rostov with the weather conditions, they were not easy that night. The wind speed at the surface of the earth reached 13 meters per second, with gusts - up to 18. Visibility - about 7 kilometers, there was a slight downpour. Moderate icing was observed at an altitude of 900 meters to one and a half kilometers.
At the same time, as experts note, in general, the weather conditions were difficult, but should not have prevented a regular landing.
Flight
The plane took off from Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, at 21.45 local time and was supposed to be at the Rostov airport at 1.20 Moscow time. However, the flight was delayed by half an hour, and the approximate landing time was also postponed. Among the alternate airfields for the board, sites in Krasnodar and Volgograd were provided.
The flight itself took place without incident. At 01.30 the pilots began manual piloting, the aircraft attempted to land for the first time. Less than half an hour earlier, two planes of other airlines landed in Rostov. At an altitude of 340 meters, the crew received a warning from the aircraft's security systems about dangerous winds on the runway. Information about this was handed over to the controllers on the ground and they decided to stop the landing approach.
For two hours the crew waited for better weather conditions 60 kilometers from Rostov-on-Don. Around the same time, an Aeroflot airliner was trying to land in Rostov, but after several unsuccessful attempts, it decided to land at an alternate airfield in Krasnodar.
Second try
At 03:23 flight 981 asked the controllers for permission to re-land and began to descend. At an altitude of 600 meters from the ground, the crew turned off automatic control and continued to work in manual mode. At 3.40 the plane was at an altitude of 220 meters, 4 and a half kilometers from the start of the runway. The Boeing increased speed and began climbing. Approximately a thousand meters from the ground, the liner dropped sharply and crashed into the ground.
Rostov dispatchers immediately reported the tragedy to the Ministry of Emergency Situations. started rescue operation. It was attended by 840 people and more than 100 pieces of equipment.
The video and photo of the plane crash in Rostov shows that the plane crashes into the ground at a very steep angle. Based on the small radius of the debris, experts conclude that the plane crash in Rostov occurred at high speed. More than 300 square meters of the runway were destroyed in a collision with the ground, the Rostov airport was closed until
disaster victims
Those killed in the plane crash in Rostov are citizens of 9 states: Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, India, Uzbekistan, Cyprus, the Seychelles, Spain and Colombia. There are 62 people in total, 7 of them are crew members. The four dead are children.
Almost all the victims of the plane crash are Russian citizens flying from the UAE from their vacation. Almost all were clients of a popular travel company in the country.
It took place and happy rescue. Russian woman Elvar Isaeva was late for the transfer from the hotel to the airport and missed the ill-fated flight. As it turned out later, the day before she celebrated her birthday with a friend, which is why she returned to the hotel late. She later flew safely from Dubai.
Rescuers during the investigation found almost 5 thousand fragments of the bodies of the victims. The identification of the remains took about two months.
The families of the victims received compensation - one million rubles each. The leadership of the Rostov region declared mourning for the victims whose lives were interrupted by a plane crash in Rostov-on-Don. The dead were citizens different countries, therefore, not only in Russia mourned that day.
Start of investigation
IAC took up the cause of the plane crash in Rostov-on-Don. Experts from the UAE, the USA (where the aircraft was assembled) and France (the country that developed the engines) were also involved. To assess the actions of the pilots, test pilots from Russia, the USA and the UAE were involved.
The Investigative Committee decided to open a criminal case. In the early days, it was believed that the plane crash in Rostov could have occurred for several reasons, among them incorrect actions of the crew, technical malfunction and weather conditions were called. The possibility of a terrorist attack was ruled out almost immediately, since no traces of explosives were found at the crash site.
Thorough investigation
The investigation was closely followed by relatives of the victims and experts. The very next day, experts examined the scene and drew up a diagram of the tragedy. Both were found in fair condition. Two days after the tragedy, the collection of aircraft fragments was completed, and they began to lay them out in the hangar.
This work was completed by 8 April. A selection of units was also made to study the performance of all aircraft systems. The transcription and translation of the crew's conversations with the controllers from English and Spanish into Russian has been completed. However, the experts did not provide a full transcript of the negotiations, referring to international rules.
MAC work
According to the conclusion of the IAC, the plane crash in Rostov on March 19, 2016 was not the result of the failure of any aircraft systems or its malfunctions. At the time of departure from the UAE, it was technically sound.
The pilots had the necessary professional training and all documents. It was also established that the meteorological instruments at the Rostov airport worked properly. The actual weather was in line with the forecasts. Radio communication also worked without interruption. Therefore, the human factor came to the fore among the causes of the tragedy.
Causes of the disaster
As a result of the investigation, the commission established a fairly accurate chronology of the events of the day when the plane crash occurred in Rostov.
During the second attempt to land at an altitude of about 200 meters, the pilots of the liner independently decided to interrupt the maneuver and start climbing. Apparently, this decision was made due to reports of wind shear near the runway. This natural phenomenon dangerous for aircraft during landing and takeoff.
At an altitude of 580 meters, the ship's commander deflected the steering wheel "towards himself", thereby causing the aircraft's nose to rise, which ultimately led to the nose drop and the airliner's dive.
According to the conclusion of the IAC experts, it was this sequence of actions that led to the fact that the Boeing, having begun to gain altitude, suddenly began to decline sharply. At the same time, he was at an altitude of about 1000 meters above the ground. In the future, all the actions of the crew did not prevent the tragedy, experts believe that the plane crash in Rostov was inevitable.
At the same time, the motives of the pilots' actions are not explained in detail in the report. It is only noted that these conclusions are not final, in the future the experts will study the psychological and physical condition of all crew members, primarily pilots. Which is especially important, given the revealed facts of non-compliance in the airline with the regime of work and rest of employees.
The Preliminary Report concludes with a recommendation to all airlines to organize additional training sessions for civilian pilots to learn the go-around sequence in various weather conditions. The Commission has not yet prepared a final report.
