Rhino
07-10-2006, 09:14 AM
Plane Crashes in Siberia, Killing at Least 122
Sunday, July 09, 2006
MOSCOW — An airliner careened off a rain-slicked runway in the Siberian city of Irkutsk early Sunday, plowing into adjacent garages and bursting into flames. At least 122 people were killed and 58 injured in the accident, the second major commercial airline crash in two months in Russia.
Passengers' relatives streamed to a crisis center near the Moscow airport where the flight originated. Some stumbled out of the center in silent shock, others anxiously clung to hope and one woman hurried out ecstatically, exclaiming into her mobile phone that a family friend had survived the disaster.
Preliminary data gathered by the commission investigating the crash indicate that the braking system on the Airbus A-310 operated by Russian airline S7 had failed, Russian news agencies reported, citing unnamed sources.
The plane was carrying at least 201 people on a flight from Moscow to Irkutsk.
Airline spokesman Konstantin Koshman said there were 193 passengers — including 14 children aged 12 and under — and a crew of eight aboard. Emergency Ministry spokeswoman Natalia Lukash said three people whose names were not on the passenger list were pulled unconscious from the wreckage; it was not clear if they had been on the ground or were flying as unregistered passengers.........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,202675,00.html
Sunday, July 09, 2006
MOSCOW — An airliner careened off a rain-slicked runway in the Siberian city of Irkutsk early Sunday, plowing into adjacent garages and bursting into flames. At least 122 people were killed and 58 injured in the accident, the second major commercial airline crash in two months in Russia.
Passengers' relatives streamed to a crisis center near the Moscow airport where the flight originated. Some stumbled out of the center in silent shock, others anxiously clung to hope and one woman hurried out ecstatically, exclaiming into her mobile phone that a family friend had survived the disaster.
Preliminary data gathered by the commission investigating the crash indicate that the braking system on the Airbus A-310 operated by Russian airline S7 had failed, Russian news agencies reported, citing unnamed sources.
The plane was carrying at least 201 people on a flight from Moscow to Irkutsk.
Airline spokesman Konstantin Koshman said there were 193 passengers — including 14 children aged 12 and under — and a crew of eight aboard. Emergency Ministry spokeswoman Natalia Lukash said three people whose names were not on the passenger list were pulled unconscious from the wreckage; it was not clear if they had been on the ground or were flying as unregistered passengers.........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,202675,00.html