The Tatarstan aircraft seizes documents, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the Volga Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Poltinin.
In particular, all documents were seized on the technical condition of the Boeing 737 aircraft, which broke up the night before in Kazan, and documents on the preparation of pilots for the flight.
Polotinin also noted that the main versions of the crash are the technical malfunction and piloting error. Currently, he noted, the seizure of technical fluids is carried out for the complex of examinations.
The Boeing 737 aircraft Airlines Tatarstan, which was traveling from Moscow to Kazan, crashed during the landing. All 50 people on board were killed, 44 passengers and six crew members.
The lists of the dead in the plane crash in Kazan are published on the official website of the Ministry of Emergencies. Among the dead Irek Minnikhanov is the son of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, as well as the head of the Republican FSB Alexander Antonov. On board was also Donna Carolina Bull, a citizen of Great Britain.
A plane crash in Kazan. Photo of the Ministry of Emergencies.
The pilot of a crashed aircraft before trying to leave the second round a few seconds before the disaster informed the airport dispatcher about the "non -detour configuration". Having flown over the runway about a kilometer, the plane touched the ground with a wing, after which it crashed into the surface of the nose. As a result, there was an explosion of fuel tanks and a fire.
“It is unequivocally known that when the aircraft tried to carry out the departure to the second round, for the unidentified reason, the aircraft touched the surface of the flight field somewhere in the area of the control and dispatch point, as a result of which the aircraft and fire occurred,” said the official representative of the Federal Air Transport Agency Sergey Izvolsky. At the same time, he abstained to name the possible causes of a crash. The versions of the technical malfunction and error of the crew are considered.
The terrorist attack as a possible cause of the disaster is not considered, the Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov told RIA Novosti.
The message of the pilots indicates that some of the aircraft systems did not work. However, the head of the press service of Tatarstan Airlines Gulnaz Minnikhanova noted that the plane was not launched between the flights and there were no malfunctions. The previous flights were executed in the standard mode. Earlier on Sunday, the flights on the Kazan-Russian-Kazan route were departed to Moscow and was supposed to return to Kazan.
"The pilots, both in 1966, had extensive experience. The commander of the aircraft Rustem Salikhov began to perform flights on this aircraft in 2012 by the second pilot, in March of the same year he became the commander. His total flight experience is 21 years. The total flight experience of the second pilot - Viktor Gutsul - 23 years," Minnikhanova said.
At the site of the disaster, work continues with the collection of fragments of the aircraft. All bodies of the dead are extracted. According to the employees of the Ministry of Emergencies, they were very burned. Kazan Airport is closed until 12:00 Monday.
Relatives of the dead are assisted by psychologists. Monday in Tatarstan was declared the day of mourning.
Passengers flying on Sunday to this side to Moscow report a strong shaking and the screening of the aircraft before landing. “They sat down in Domodedovo as if at the aircraft the horizon stabilization system was faulty, the pilot had difficulty aligned the ship before landing, when contacting the ground, we were a little brought, but the pilot managed and I crossed himself,” writes Ruslan Kalimullin.
The crashed plane was operated for 23 years, he made his first flight in 1990. Its on -board number is VQ -BBN. The plane with this number last year already made an emergency landing in Kazan. Then the sensors of depressurization of the salon worked.
During the operation, the aircraft was controlled by seven airlines. Initially, the car was on the balance of the French airline Euralair Horizons, then Air France. In 1995, the board was transferred to Africa, Uganda Airlines. Five years later, it was accepted by the small Brazilian company Rio Sul. For another five years they were owned by the Romanian Blue Air, and then only six months Bulgarian Bulgaria Air. Since December 2008, the board began to carry passengers of Tatarstan airline.
The Boeing 737-500 passenger plane is the smallest representative of the classic series of the Boeing 737 aircraft family. It has a shortened fuselage and an increased flight range compared to the basic model of the series-Boeing 737-300.