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Utair Crash
A Russian passenger plane on Monday crashed into a snowy field in
Siberia shortly after takeover, causing 31 out of the 43 passengers to
die. The 12 survivors were hospitalized. The cause of the crash was not
immediately clear, but investigators said evidence pointed to technical
failure.
The plane, a ATR-72 turboprop, took off at 7:40 am from the Siberian
regional center Tyumen, at 1,700 km east of Moscow going to oil-rich
town of Surgut. It went down three km away from Tyumen and fragmented
into three pieces on impact.
Part of it was destroyed by a fire, causing at least six people to be
burnt to death, according to the police chief at the airport in Tyumen.
The Federal Investigative Committee said that the failure of the
equipment was the most likely cause of the tragedy. Some of the
witnesses said that they had seen some smoke coming from the engines and
that the pilots had attempted to turn the plane toward the airport.
A passenger manifest of the operating company Utair revealed that all
the 39 passengers and the four members of the crew were Russians.
The technology failure and piloting errors were the cause for many
crashes in Russia, prompting many to accuse the Soviet-time technology.
Industry experts however say that the poor training of the crews, the
quality of the airports, the lax government control, and the neglect of
safety were causes of the accidents.
44 were killed in a crash neat Yaroslavl in September 2011, killing
the entire hockey team of the city; an accident occurred in April 2010
near Smolenks, killing the entire leadership of Poland, which was
attending a commemoration of the victims of Katyn massacre of Polish
officers during WWII.
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