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Flydubai flight FZ981 crash LIVE UPDATES
Published time: 19 Mar, 2016 03:03
Edited time: 19 Mar, 2016 04:10
Vitaliy Belousov / Sputnik
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A Flydubai Boeing-737-800 has crashed during landing in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. All the passengers and crew on board have been killed.
19 March 2016
14:03 GMT
Lamberto Zannier, head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), has expressed sympathy over the plane crash in Rostov-on-Don.
13:48 GMT
Forensic identification of FZ981 passengers might start as early as Saturday, Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov announced.
13:42 GMT
The Russian Emergency Ministry reports that over 850 specialists from various organizations are currently working at the crash site, along with 170 vehicles and hardware units. Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov said earlier that repairs to the airstrip in Rostov-on-Don would take at least 10 hours.
13:41 GMT
Contact has been established with relatives of 47 out of the 55 passengers on FlyDubai flight FZ981, the governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev reported.
The relatives of the foreign citizens that died in the crash would be granted Russian visas using a simplified procedure, Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov told media.
12:48 GMT
FlyDubai total insurance cover exceeds $500 million. "This money is enough to pay compensation to relatives of the victims," TASS cited Russian Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov as telling media. FlyDubai was insured by the Emirates' companies, and had been re-insured in the UK, Sokolov said.
12:37 GMT
The Russian Defense Ministry has joined the recovery operation following the crash of the Boeing-737-800, it said in a statement. A military airfield, Rostov-Central, is ready to open its runway for Emergency Ministry aircraft, deploy engineering hardware and transport vehicles to help to clear the crash site, and take away debris. Military psychologists are working alongside other specialists at Rostov-on-Don Airport.
11:58 GMT
According Investigative Committee experts who examined the flight recorders, the black boxes are in a "normal condition," informed spokesman for the southern bureau of Russia’s Investigative Committee Oksana Kovrizhnaya. The data would be extracted as soon as possible, Kovrizhnaya said.
10:53 GMT
Ghaith Al-Ghaith, CEO of FlyDubai, has excluded the possibility of a terror act on ill-fated flight FZ981. No distress signal had been issued by the pilots either, he said.
Al-Ghaith insists the captain, Aristos Socratous, was a highly experienced pilot with over 5,700 flight hours and that the plane was new. Manufactured in 2011, the aircraft passed its latest maintenance on January 21, 2016.
09:56 GMT
Both FZ981 flight data recorders have been recovered from the crash site. Experts are evaluating whether any data can be retrieved from them, said Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Russia’s Investigative Committee (IC). The cockpit voice recorder was found in the morning and the parametric recorder was recovered later in the day.
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https://www.rt.com/news/336194-flydubai-fz981-crash-rostov/ |
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