71 dead after plane crashes near Moscow

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A Russian passenger plane has crashed after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo Airport with 71 people on board.

The Saratov Airlines jet vanished minutes after take-off and crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 50 miles south-east of Moscow.

Russia jet crashes after Moscow take-off

BBC News
11 February 2018


Wreckage was found in a snowy field south-east of Moscow

A Russian passenger plane has crashed after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo Airport with 71 people on board.

The Saratov Airlines jet vanished minutes after take-off and crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 50 miles south-east of Moscow.

All those on board are thought to have died, officials told Russian media.

The An-148 was en route to the city of Orsk in the Urals, near Russia's border with Kazakhstan. It crashed early in the afternoon local time.

Pictures from the crash site appear to show pieces of wreckage in a snow-covered field.

Flight-tracking site Flightradar24 tweets that the aircraft was descending at 3,300ft per minute (38mph) five minutes after taking off.


The Flightradar24 website shows the flight path

How good is Russia's flight safety record?

Russian airlines have suffered two major plane crashes in recent years:

A Tu-154 military airliner crashed into the Black Sea with the loss of all 92 people aboard on 25 December 2016, with the disaster blamed on pilot error

A Russian Airbus A321 carrying tourists crashed in Sinai, Egypt, with the loss of all 224 people aboard on 31 October 2015; the Islamic State group said it had placed a bomb aboard

What do we know about Saratov Airlines?


The missing plane was An-148 like the one in this archive picture

Saratov Airlines is based in Saratov, 527 miles south-east of Moscow.

In 2015 it was banned from operating international flights when surprise inspectors found someone other than the flight crew was in the cockpit.

The airline appealed against the ban and changed its policy before resuming international charter flights in 2016.

It flies mainly between Russian cities but also has destinations in Armenia and Georgia.

Russia jet crashes after Moscow take-off - BBC News
 
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Their technology sucks and always has.
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They won most competitions in the space race.

PICTURED: Some of the 71 passengers and crew who died when Russian plane crashed minutes after take-off, killing everyone on board, after witnesses watched 'burning craft fall from the sky'

A 12-year-old boy and young air stewardesses were killed when the plane they were on 'broke up in the sky' just minutes after it took off from Moscow. The first victims of the horror crash have now been named. Ilya Poletayev, 17, was one of the 65 passengers who died on the plane after the engine 'exploded' after taking off. He was killed alongside flight crew member Anastasia Slavinskaya who was working on the Antonov An-148 when it came down near the village of Argunovo, south east of the capital. All 71 people on board the plane died and a source from Russia's emergency services said the 65 passengers and six crew members had 'no chance' of survival. Shocked witnesses reportedly saw a burning aircraft falling from the sky and wreckage was spread over a large snow-covered field. The plane, which was operated by Saratov Airlines, was on its way to Orsk, a city in the Urals - 1,000 miles from Moscow. Other victims were named as second pilot Sergey Gambaryan, 34, stewardess Viktoria Koval, 21, and passengers Kriskentia Alexeenko, 25, and Ulyana Son, 28, were also killed after boarding the doomed plane.


Nadezhda Krasova, five, the youngest victim in the crash, died along with her mother Oksana Krasova (pictured together)


12-year-old Evgeny Livanov


Flight crew member Anastasia Slavinskaya, 29, (left) and second pilot Sergey Gambaryan, 34, both died in the plane crash


Stewardess Viktoria Koval, 21, was also killed


Ilya Poletayev, 17, was on the plane when it came down and crashed in a field





Russian plane crash kills 71 people near Moscow | Daily Mail Online
 
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Their aviation has always been derivative and poorly done. They ascribe to the theory that 50 inferior aircraft are worth one good one. Which is why their flight safety record is so hideous.
 
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Their aviation has always been derivative and poorly done. They ascribe to the theory that 50 inferior aircraft are worth one good one. Which is why their flight safety record is so hideous.
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You're right. Russia's flight safety is so poor there's only one country with worse flight safety.

Canada's flight safety record is amongst the worst in the world, too:

 
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They won most competitions in the space race.

Their pilots and Cosmonauts were more disposable. Besides the Soviet Union could and did cover up anything that they wanted to. Dead Cosmonauts stories were not well known until the USSR was defunct.
 
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You're right. Russia's flight safety is so poor there's only one country with worse flight safety.

Canada's flight safety record is amongst the worst in the world, too:

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They have 1/1000 as many flight hours and over half the accidents?

They are a joke as are you.
 
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Curious Cdn said:

They won most competitions in the space race.

Their pilots and Cosmonauts were more disposable. Besides the Soviet Union could and did cover up anything that they wanted to. Dead Cosmonauts stories were not well known until the USSR was defunct.
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More American astronauts died in the 1960s and 1970s than Russian cosmonauts.
 
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