WORLD:44 KILLED IN RUSSIAN PLANE CRASH,8 SURVIVORS

21/06/2011-01:49pm

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44 killed in Russian Plane Crash

Posted Jun 21, 2011

Emergency workers and investigators search a wreckage of Tu-134 plane, belonging to the RusAir airline, near the city of Petrozavodsk Tuesday, June 21, 2011.The passenger jet crashed in heavy fog and burst into flames late Monday on a highway in northwestern Russia, just short of a runway whose fog lights had failed, killing 44 people, officials said. Eight people survived the crash.(AP Photo/Timur Khanov, Komsomolskaya Pravda)



A rescuer of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations walks amid the debris of a RusAir Tupolev 134 passenger jet at a crash site on a highway near Petrozavodsk, the capital of Russia's northern Karelia region, on June 21, 2011. Forty-four people were killed and eight survived badly injured when a plane crashed onto a highway and burst into flames in bad weather conditions, failing to make the runway and instead hurtling onto a road two kilometers. AFP PHOTO/ KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) – A Russian airliner crashed in heavy fog and burst into flames just short of a runway in northwestern Russia, killing 44 people, officials said. Eight people survived, dragged from the burning wreckage by locals.
The RusAir Tu-134 plane had taken off from Moscow and was moments from landing at the Petrozavodsk airport when it slammed into a nearby highway just before midnight Monday, Emergencies Ministry spokeswoman Oksana Semyonova told The Associated Press.
Russia’s top investigative agency said bad weather, human error or a technical malfunction might have contributed to the crash. There were no suspicions of a foul play.
The plane’s approach was too low, so it clipped a tree and then hit a high-power line – causing the airport’s runway lights to go off for 10 seconds – before slamming into the ground, Sergei Izvolsky, a spokesman for the Russian air transport agency, told the AP.
The emergencies ministry said 44 people were killed, including four with dual U.S. and Russian citizenship. Local Russians rescued the eight survivors, including a mother, her 9-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter. They were hospitalized in critical condition in Petrozavodsk.
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Selasa Jun 21, 2011

44 Terbunuh Pesawat Terhempas Di Lebuhraya Rusia

Serpihan pesawat Tu-134 milik RusAir yang terhempas di sebuah lebuhraya di Petrozavodsk.

ST. PETERSBURG (Rusia): Sebuah pesawat penumpang milik Rusia terhempas di sebuah lebuhraya di barat laut negara itu pada lewat Isnin menyebabkan 44 orang terbunuh manakala lapan orang dilaporkan terselamat setakat ini.

Pesawat Tu-134 itu adalah milik syarikat penerbangan RusAir yang sedang dalam perjalanan dari Moscow ke bandar Petrozavodsk.

Pesawat itu dilaporkan membawa 52 orang penumpang termasuk sembilan orang anak kapal.

Pesawat malang itu dikatakan terhempas dalam percubaan terakhirnya untuk mendarat di Petrozavodsk namun tersasar sejauh dua kilometer dari landasan mendarat.

Adalah masih tidak diketahui sama ada pesawat itu sememangnya cuba mendarat di sebuah lebuhraya ataupun terhempas di situ.

Berita Interfax memetik Pengarah Lapangan Terbang, Alexei Kuzmitsky sebagai berkata, keadaan cuaca yang agak buruk mungkin menjadi punca berlakunya kemalangan itu.

Agensi-agensi berita Rusia juga melaporkan mungkin terdapatnya masalah mengenai pencahayaan di landasan kapal terbang berkenaan.

Menurut agensi berita, kotak hitam pesawat tersebut telahpun dijumpai.

Menurut Pertubuhan Pengangkutan Udara Antarabangsa, Rusia dan beberapa republik bekas jajahan Soviet mempunyai rekod keselamatan trafik antara yang terburuk di dunia dan ia dikatakan berpunca daripada pengawalan yang lemah oleh kerajaan, latihan juruterbang yang tidak mencukupi dan mentaliti para pemilik syarikat penerbangan untuk menjimatkan kos. -AP

source:http://mstar.com.my/berita/luar_negara/cerita.asp?file=/2011/6/21/mstar_luar_negara/20110621120447&sec=mstar_luar_negara

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