Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the fatal crash landing of a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger aircraft at Moscow Domodedovo Airport on Dec. 4.
Two people on board the JSC South East Airlines flight were killed and 82 hospitalized, says the Moscow Interregional Department of Investigation, which has launched an investigation to try and determine the circumstances and cause of the accident.
The department says it is treating this as a criminal case based on part three, article 263 of the criminal code, relating to violation of traffic rules and operating of aircraft.
Reports in Russia - quoting from the director general of Russia’s Federal Air Navigation Authority, Alexander Neradko – say navigation equipment and all three of the aircraft’s engines failed.
The flight departed Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport at around 2p.m. on Dec. 4 bound for Makhachkala, the capital of the Republic of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea.
A few minutes into the flight, two of the aircraft’s engines failed so the pilots decided to make an emergency landing at Domodedovo airport, say local news reports, citing various officials.
But as they were landing the third engine failed, say the reports, adding that the aircraft experienced a hard landing, rolled off the runway and broke into three parts.
The Tu-154, local registration RA-85744, had nine crew and 160 passengers, says the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. JSC South East Airlines was formerly known as Dagestan Airlines.
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