CCTV Footage Shows The Horrifying FlyDubai Crash That Killed All 62 Passengers Onboard

Admin 20-Mar-2016 12:42:48 Inothernews

It was a windy day before dawn Saturday over the airport in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don when a plane carrying 62 people from a favorite Russian holiday destination decided to abort its landing. The timing was tricky Two planes had landed just a few minutes before the FlyDubai plane aimed to touch down. On the other hand, a Russian Aeroflot plane scheduled to land around the same time tried to come down three times then diverted to another airport. Despite circling for two hours over the city located 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the Ukraine border, the landing was a brutal calamity - the plane plummeted to Earth and exploded in a huge fireball, killing everyone aboard. The powerful explosion left a big crater in the airport's runway and pulverized the plane, but investigators recovered both flight recorders. The cause of the crash wasn't immediately known, but officials and experts pointed at a sudden gust of wind as a possible reason. "By all appearances, the cause of the air crash was the strongly gusting wind, approaching a hurricane level," said Vasily Golubev, governor of the Rostov region 950 kilometers (600 miles) south of Moscow. The plane's 55 passengers, 44 of them Russian, ranged in age from 4 to 67; eight others were from Ukraine, two were from India and one from Uzbekistan. Its crew of seven was an ethnic melange - two Spaniards and one person each from Cyprus, Colombia, Russia, the Seychelles and Kyrgyzstan.



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