According to official data, every 4-5 people in the world are afraid to fly on airplanes, that is, 20-25% of the total population of the planet, that is, about 1.5 billion people. However, according to unofficial data, these figures are much higher: at least half of the world's inhabitants are afraid of flying to varying degrees. And this is despite the fact that air crashes, although large-scale tragedies, still do not happen every day.
For example, about 30,000 people die annually on roads in Russia alone, and up to 2 million people in the world. Air crashes, for example, in 2010 - there were 28 air crashes in which 828 people died - take dozens, sometimes hundreds of times fewer lives than accidents involving ground transport and other dangers.
It’s just interest, media excitement due to the fact that often many people die in such a tragic way at once, and, it should be noted, the human factor is often to blame, outdated equipment that was not replaced in time.
That is, lives are ruined by someone's negligence. If a car accident where several people died, several such accidents in different parts of the country, albeit with the same number of victims, does not cause a resonance due to the fact that it happens every day, then a plane crash is more shocking for obvious reasons.
Any catastrophe is always a tragedy, ruined human lives are always a huge and irreparable loss for relatives...
Today we will talk about the largest and worst air crashes in the world.
Of the Wikipedia list of aviation accidents, 33 have 200 or more deaths, including 8 - more than 300 deaths.
Collision at the airport of Los Rodeos, or plane crash in Tenerife in 1977
The largest air disaster in history is considered to have occurred on March 27, 1977, a collision at Los Rodeos airport (583 dead):
“Then two planes collided -“ On the runway of Los Rodeos Airport, KLM airliners Boeing 747-206B (flight KL4805 Amsterdam - Las Palmas) and Pan American Boeing 747-121 (flight PA1736 Los Angeles - New York - Las Palmas).
583 people died (all 248 people on board the Boeing KLM (234 passengers and 14 crew members) and 335 people on board the Boeing Pan American (326 passengers and 9 crew members), 61 people survived (on the Boeing Pan American (54 passengers and 7 crew members)).
This disaster remains the largest in terms of the number of victims in the history of civil aviation.
Two planes collided at an airport in the Canary Islands, and the crew chiefs, who misinterpreted the signals of the controllers, were found guilty of the tragedy.
Everything was aggravated by bad weather, poor visibility, the fact that the take-offs took place on a small strip of an alternate airfield. 61 people managed to escape, thanks to the fact that the body of the American Boeing crashed and this made it easier for the living passengers to escape before the aircraft burned down.
The largest single plane crash (that is, the maximum number of victims died on just one plane) is the Boeing 747 crash near Tokyo on August 12, 1985 (520 dead):
“The Boeing 747SR-46 of Japan Airlines was flying JAL 123 from Tokyo to Osaka, but lost its vertical tail stabilizer 12 minutes after takeoff.
The crew kept the unmanned airliner in the air for 32 minutes, but the plane lost control and crashed into Mount Otsutaka, 112 km from Tokyo. 520 people died (15 crew members and 505 passengers), only 4 people survived.
This is the second largest accident in the history of aviation (after the collision of two Boeing 747s in Tenerife) and the largest single aircraft accident.”
Despite the fatal damage to the aircraft and the collision with the mountain, a lot of passengers were still alive after the tragedy and died from help that was not provided on time, cold ... The delay in the arrival of rescue services was associated with some disputes, and of those teams who arrived, they even went down they didn’t, because there was a fire and it was decided in absentia that everyone was dead. Only after 14 hours, rescuers found survivors who said that there were many living people.
At the crash site, many farewell notes were found in the passengers' belongings.
“Japan Airlines accepted some of the responsibility for the crash because it did not properly inspect the repaired aircraft.
The airline's president, Yasumoto Takagi, has resigned, and the airline's chief technical officer at Haneda Airport has committed suicide."
Although for many reasons these tragedies are in question whether they are classified as air crashes (rather terrorist attacks) - sometimes they are included in the list of the largest air crashes.
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 - the crash of two Boeing 767s in New York and one Boeing 757 in Washington: then the Boeings seized by terrorists were sent to the north and south towers of the World Trade Center. In the plane itself and under the collapsed structures, as a result of a fire in both towers, more than three thousand people died.
Collision over Charkhi Dadri
« Aviation accident that occurred on November 12, 1996. A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-168B (flight SVA763 Delhi-Jeddah) and an Il-76TD of Kazakhstan Airlines (flight KZA1907 Shymkent-Delhi) collided over the Indian city of Charkhi Dadri, killing 349 people (312 on flight 763 and 37 on flight 1907).
This is one of the largest air crashes in history, including the first in the number of victims in the history of mid-air collisions and the third in the history of civil aviation.
Experts recognized the cause of the collision as a mistake by the Il-76 crew, the planes collided at flight level 140, when the Il-76 was supposed to rise higher, due to poor knowledge of a foreign language, misunderstanding of the radio operator, dispatcher, lack of modern technical means of interaction, communication.
Collision over Mato Grosso
In a similar scenario, a new tragedy occurred almost ten years later:
“On September 29, 2006, an Embraer EMB-135BJ Legacy 600 of ExcelAire and a Boeing-737-8EH of Gol Transportes Aéreos (flight GLO 1907) collided over Brazil. They flew along the same trajectories as the Il-76 with the Boeing 747.”
“The Boeing crashed into the Amazon jungle, crashing into the ground vertically at speeds up to 500 km/h, all 154 people on board (148 passengers and 6 crew members) were killed. Embraer made an emergency landing at the airport of Sierra di Cachimbu, 7 people on board (5 passengers and 2 pilots) were not injured, the left wing of the aircraft was seriously damaged.
HORRIBLE Plane Crashes - Mid-Air Collisions:
DC-10 crash near Paris
The tragedy happened back in 1974.
The Paris DC-10 Crash (also known as the Ermenonville Crash) was a major aviation accident that occurred on Sunday March 3, 1974 near Paris, France.
The Turkish Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 airliner operated the TK 981 passenger flight on the Istanbul-Paris-London route, and there were 12 crew members and 334 passengers on board.
6 minutes after takeoff from Paris, at an altitude of more than 3 kilometers, one of the cargo doors suddenly opened, which created an explosive decompression, as a result of which the control systems collapsed.
The liner went into a dive and after a minute and a half at high speed crashed into the Ermenonville forest northeast of Paris, while completely destroyed.
All 346 people on board were killed. This is the first and largest disaster involving the DC-10. At the time of the events (in 1974) it was the largest aviation accident in the world, currently (in 2016) it is the fourth. Remains the largest plane crash with no survivors.
During the investigation, it was found that the cause of the disaster was the imperfection of the locking mechanism of the cargo compartment door, which opened at high altitude due to the pressure difference.
This is one of the most terrible air disasters, of course, any disaster is terrible, but this tragedy has remained in the memory of many.
Of the 346 dead, only 40 bodies were identified, the plane was “smeared” to such an extent that there was not even a fire - it simply disintegrated into small pieces, literally wiped off the face of the earth along with the people sitting in it. In addition, even during the flight after the explosion of the fuselage, six passenger seats flew out through a hole in the place of the rear cargo door - the height was 3.5 km.
Boeing 747 crash near Cork
“The Boeing 747 crash near Cork is an aviation accident as a result of a terrorist attack that occurred on Sunday June 23, 1985 in the sky over the Atlantic Ocean, 70 kilometers from Cork (Ireland).
An Air-India Boeing 747-237B airliner was flying AI182 on the Montreal-London-Delhi-Bombay route when, while flying near the coast of Ireland, an explosion occurred on board, destroying the aircraft, killing all 329 people on board - 307 passengers and 22 crew members.
This is the largest air crash in neutral waters, the first terrorist attack on Boeing 747 aircraft and the largest terrorist attack in the history of Canada.
When the explosion thundered, the tail of the aircraft was torn off, the crew of the ship did not even have time to transmit a distress signal, hundreds of passengers “scattered” in the sky over the Atlantic, then within a few days 131 bodies and aircraft wreckage were lifted from the water.
L-1011 crash in Riyadh
“The L-1011 crash in Riyadh is an aviation accident that occurred on Tuesday, August 19, 1980 at the airport in Riyadh. A few minutes after taking off from Karachi, a fire broke out on board a Lockheed L-1011-385-1-15 TriStar 200 operated by Saudi Arabian Airlines on passenger flight SVA163 on the Karachi-Riyadh-Jeddah route.
The crew managed to make an emergency landing in Riyadh, but the airport emergency services opened the door to the passenger compartment only 23 minutes after the plane landed. As a result of the delay in the evacuation, the liner burned out completely, killing all 287 passengers and 14 crew members on board (a total of 301 people).
As of 2016, this crash remains the largest air crash in Saudi Arabia. It is also the sixth deadliest of the largest air crashes in history, and the second in Saudi Arabian Airlines after the crash of flight SVA763 (312 deaths)."
Despite the fact that the fire, which started in flight, was able to be extinguished - and despite the fact that the plane managed to make a crash-free landing - For 23 minutes, rescuers could not open the doors, and there was no evacuation from inside. Even when landing, passengers fought for seats in the front. What happened, why an emergency evacuation was not carried out, remained a big question. In the first minutes after the liner stopped, it caught fire - all passengers and crew members died.
Boeing 777 crash in Donetsk region
“The Boeing 777 crash in the Donetsk region is an aviation accident of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft operating a scheduled flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, which occurred on July 17, 2014 in the east of the Donetsk region of Ukraine near the village of Grabovo near the town of Torez, near the border with Luhansk region, in the area of armed confrontation in eastern Ukraine.
There were 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board, all of whom died. This disaster, in terms of the number of deaths, was the largest in the history of aviation since September 11, 2001 and entered the top ten largest in history. The largest plane crash of the XXI century and in the post-Soviet space.
As for the causes of the tragedy, the plane was shot down by an air-to-air missile fired from a Ukrainian aircraft. This was done to blame Russia and the DPR for the plane they allegedly shot down.
« In total, 298 people died as a result of the crash. All the dead were on board the crashed aircraft; on the ground, there were no cases of death and injury of people as a result of the fall of the aircraft wreckage.
Among the passengers were 80 minors, including three minors (under the age of 2 years) children: two Malaysians and one Indonesian.
198 people flying on board were citizens of the Netherlands, 44 were citizens of Malaysia, 27 of Australia, 12 of Indonesia, 10 of Great Britain, 4 of Belgium, 4 of Germany, 3 of the Philippines, 1 of Canada, 1 of New Zealand.
An-32 crash in Kinshasa
“The An-32 crash in Kinshasa is an aviation accident that occurred on January 8, 1996. The Russian cargo plane An-32B of Moscow Airways (Moscow Airways) made a cargo flight from Kinshasa to Cahemba, but during the takeoff run along the runway, it could not take off, rolled out of it and crashed into the market, which was located very close to Runway (actually in the city center).
298 people died (1 in the plane, 297 on the ground). Another 253 people were injured of varying severity.
For 2016, this disaster remains the largest in terms of the number of victims on earth (not counting the attacks of September 11, 2001) «.
There were 6 crew members on board - one was killed. The nose of the aircraft did not rise during takeoff, it moved to a nearby adjacent territory, dragged along the shopping malls for a couple of hundred meters, crashed into buildings and caught fire. Mostly women and children died on the ground, the bodies were severely mutilated, only 66 people were identified (identified), the rest were buried in a mass grave.
In total, out of the hundred largest air crashes in more than 30 tragedies, there were more than 200 victims, in nine more than 300 victims, in 66 cases, victims from 100 to 199 people.
The 28 largest air crashes occurred after 2000, the rest from 1960 to 2000.
In the list of the largest Russian air crashes, 16 have more than 100 dead.
Some of the largest air crashes that have occurred in Russia in recent times:
Boeing 737 crash in Kazan
“The Boeing 737 crash in Kazan is an aviation accident that occurred on Sunday, November 17, 2013 at Kazan International Airport.
The plane Boeing 737-500 (53A) of Tatarstan airlines, making flight U9-363 on the route Moscow - Kazan, at 19:23:28 Moscow time, crashed while landing at Kazan airport.
All 50 people on board the aircraft (44 passengers and 6 crew members) died.”
“The Boeing 737 crash in Rostov-on-Don is an aviation accident that occurred in the early morning of March 19, 2016 in Rostov-on-Don.
The Boeing 737-800 airliner FlyDubai was completing a regular passenger flight FZ-981 from Dubai (UAE) and made two landing attempts at the airport of Rostov-on-Don (Russia).
After the second unsuccessful attempt, during the climb, the liner, for an unknown reason, began a sharp decline and at high speed crashed to the ground next to the airport runway, completely destroyed.
All 62 people on board (55 passengers and 7 crew members) died.”
About the causes of the tragedy:“According to the official statement, the reason for the crash of the Boeing 737-800 passenger airliner in Rostov-on-Don was the fragmentation of the actions of the crew members, in particular, the mistakes made during the go-around approach are implied.
According to some reports, this version was established during the decoding of flight recorders from the crashed airliner, and the existing information that a terrorist act and a technical malfunction could be the culprit was disproved even earlier.
Man has always dreamed of flying into the sky. Ancient Greek myths tell that Daedalus and his son Icarus took off into the sky with the help of wings that were made of feathers, wax and thread.
And the greatest scientist, inventor and artist Leonardo do Vinci once created sketches of an unusual aircraft. He had to use the strength of human muscles to fly into the endless sky.
People have been trying to create such flying machines for a long time. And they created...
History of world air crashes
The very first flights in the sky began at the end of the 19th century. It was then that the statistics of world air crashes began. In the process of development of flights on airplanes (cargo, passenger), air crashes of the world began to occur more and more often. The statistics of their crashes grew incredibly until 1970. And it is the 70s that are the peak of terrible tragedies in the sky.
In the future, due to the growth of modern technologies, the improvement of aviation technology and the tightening of requirements and rules for flight safety, by the 80s, a decrease in the number of accidents with aircraft began to occur. There is a dynamic decrease in the number of air crashes from 616, with 15,689 deaths, in the 70s to more than 300 accidents with 8,000 deaths in the 2000s.
Air crashes of the world, their geography
Geographically, in this terribly sad statistics of disasters, the United States ranks. According to well-known information from the Aviation Safety Network, from 1945 to the present day, a huge number of passenger aircraft have crashed in this country - more than 630. More than 9,000 people have died in these accidents.
Russia, unfortunately, occupies the second place in this statistics. Since 1945, more than 200 catastrophes in the sky have occurred on the territory of the USSR of those times and modern Russia. At the same time, more than 5,000 people died.
3rd place - for Colombia.
The smallest number of air crashes - in Ecuador.
Statistics on the distribution of air crashes in recent years by country
In 1977, the world record for the number of victims in a plane crash was set. In the Tenerife area, two Boeing 747 airliners of the well-known Pan-America and KLM airlines unexpectedly collided. Then the victims were 583 people.
The total number of air crashes in the world is steadily increasing.
The most dangerous airline in the world, according to Actual Security (Swedish magazine), is the Soviet Aeroflot. According to them, the statistics of air crashes in the world shows that there are more than 18 crashes per 1 million Aeroflot flights. The second place in this sad list is occupied by the airlines of Taiwan - more than 11 accidents per million departures. The third place belongs to Egypt (more than 11), then - India (more than 10), Turkey, China, Philippines, South Korea and Poland - more than 6 accidents on 41 million flights. The safest is the South-West company (America). For 1 million 800 thousand flights of airliners of this company, not a single disaster happened.
The largest air crashes in the world by the number of victims
aircraft name | Year of disaster | Place of the disaster | Number of victims | Country, owner of the airliner | Causes of the disaster |
Canary Islands | Netherlands, USA | Incorrect reception by the crew of the dispatcher's command |
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Insufficient quality repair of the airliner (technical problems) |
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Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia | Collision of two planes in the air |
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Opening the hatch in the cargo compartment |
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Atlantic | Terrorist act |
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Due to conditions of poor visibility, a collision with the ground |
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Undefined |
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newfoundland | There was a loss of speed during takeoff |
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Antarctica | New Zealand | Fall to the ground |
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Unforeseen fire in the air |
This table presents the worst air crashes in the world.
Description of some plane crashes
In March 1974, after opening the cargo bay, a French DC-10 of THY Turkish Airlines crashed in a forest. In total - 346 dead.
In March 1977, a Boeing 747-206B (KLM) collided with a Boeing 747-121 (Pan Am) on the Canary Islands in Tenerife. 583 dead (worst air crash in the world).
In May 1979, due to damage to the hydraulic system, an American Airlines DC-10 crashed in the Chicago area. 273 people died.
In August 1980, after making an emergency landing, an L-1011-200 Tristar (Saudi) aircraft burned down in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh). 301 people died.
In June 1985, an Air India Boeing 747-237B was destroyed after a terrorist explosion. 329 people died.
In July 1988, by a ridiculous mistake, he was shot down by a military missile from the ship Vincennes (America) (Iran Air). It happened in the Persian Gulf. 290 people died.
In August 1985, a Boeing 747SR (Japan Airlines) crashed into a mountain in Tokyo. Surprisingly, only four survived. 520 people died.
In November 1996, another Boeing 747-168B (Saudi Arabian Airlines) collided with a Kazakh Il-76TD aircraft in Charkhi-Dadri (India). A total of 349 people died then.
In January 1996, an overloaded Ant-32 crashed into the city market of Kinshasa in Zaire. More than 297 dead. 4 people from the crew survived (total crew members 5).
More recently, on July 17, 2014, another terrible tragedy occurred on Ukrainian territory (60 kilometers from the border with Russia) - a Boeing 777 airliner (Malaysian Airlines) crashed (was shot down by the military). 295 passengers (including 80 children) and the entire crew (15 people) died. Until now, the true cause of the tragedy has not been officially clarified.
The death of heads of state in aviation accidents
Air crashes in the world occur in the most unexpected places, for various reasons, and people of various statuses in society die in them.
The leaders of all countries, as a rule, use airliners as transportation due to time savings. The most modern and, it would seem, very reliable in terms of safety of the court are used for this. However, an unforeseen failure of equipment or simply a human factor in these cases can cause aircraft crashes. Here are some plane crashes in the world in which the first government officials died:
In 2010 - Lech Kaczynski (President of Poland) with his wife, military people from the Polish high command and other political figures died in a Tu-154 crash near Smolensk.
In 2004, Boris Trajkovski (President of Macedonia) died in an accident in Bosnia.
In 2001, the Sudanese military leadership died in the south of the country.
In 1988, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who was the president of Pakistan, died. The tragedy occurred over the city of Lahore, Pakistan (possibly as a result of a terrorist attack).
1986 - Samora Machel (President of Mozambique) died in South Africa in a plane crash.
In 1981, Jaime Roldos Aguilera, the President of Ecuador, died. The plane crashed in the Wairapunga mountains of Ecuador.
In 1969, René Barientos Ortuño died in Arc (Bolivia).
In 1966 - Abdul Salam Aref (President of Iraq) in southern Iraq.
In 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld (UN Secretary General) died in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).
In 1957, Ramon Magsaysay died as a result of another disaster in the municipality of Balamban (Philippines).
Many more well-known names can be added to the lists of the dead from among the statesmen of small and large countries of the world. There are also mysterious plane crashes of the world among them, mainly those whose causes have not yet been clarified. These include the plane crash that occurred in Panama. In 1981, Omar Torrijos, the general, leader of Panama, died under mysterious circumstances.
Statistical data on Russian Airlines
Recently, when buying, almost all Russian airlines give preference to foreign (already used) aircraft, rather than new Russian ones. And as you know, the control of imported modern equipment equipped with electronics is very different from the control of domestic aircraft. Accordingly, the risk of occurrence, again, just a “human factor” increases.
So, Rossiya has 184 human lives, Vladivostok-Avia has 145, KrasAir has 29, and Tyumen Airlines has 5. victims: Transaero, Ural Airlines and Domodedovo Airlines.
Liner rating statistics
Liner model | Number of flights, million | Average deaths in disasters, % | Number of crashes | |||
Boeing 737-300/400/5000 | ||||||
Airbus A320/319/321 | ||||||
Boeing 737-600/700/800/900 | ||||||
From the above information, we can conclude that the Boeing 777 is by far the most reliable type of airliner.
The main causes of air crashes
Every year, the black, terrifyingly tragic list of world air crashes is replenished. Quite often, the causes of these tragedies remain not fully understood. Air crashes in the world are very frequent and unpredictable. The investigation sometimes hits a dead end. Even the magical ones often cannot figure out the cause of some mid-air disasters.
The main causes of modern aviation disasters: technical problems (failure of technical devices, minor malfunctions), errors of air traffic controllers, pilots and other personnel (human factor), international terrorism, hostilities, ridiculous fatal accidents (military air defense errors, lightning storms, even collisions with birds, etc.).
The most important cause of the air crashes that have occurred is the very ill-fated human factor. In the practice of the whole world, it accounts for almost 70% of all aircraft crashes.
And yet, despite the fact that air crashes are terrible and each time cause a very painful reaction from the entire world community, aviation remains one of the most reliable and safe of all modes of transport in existence.
Every 2-3 seconds someone lands or takes off. Some are happy about it, others are afraid. Is it worth giving in to fear? The answer will be given by statistics: how often planes crash, where it happens and how likely it is to crash.
About 100,000 planes soar into the sky every day, and, oddly enough, just as many successfully land. Every year, aircraft carry about 4.5 billion people, which is more than half of the world's population. How many of them do you think fill up the statistics of those killed in air crashes? No more than 1000 per year. The ratio is impressive, right?
During the entire existence of civil aviation (almost 100 years), less than 150 thousand people died. This is less than the number of deaths per month in traffic accidents around the world.
How many planes crash a year
According to Wikipedia, over the past 6 years, there have been 107 fatal air crashes in the world, in which 3245 people died. This is about 540 victims per year. It is important to clarify that the statistics take into account both commercial airliners and private small aircraft, and the number of victims is indicated taking into account those who died on the ground. That is, if a falling plane rammed a bus with 10 passengers, then they are also taken into account in the statistics. Therefore, the real numbers of passenger plane crashes are much less.
2010: 14 accidents in which 792 people died. The biggest tragedy is the unsuccessful landing of an Indian low-cost airline on a Boeing 737 (158 victims) and the crash of a Polish TU-154 near Smolensk (96 deaths).
2011 passed without loud aircraft crashes. The largest number of victims (77 people) was in the Iranian Boeing 727, which failed to land due to bad weather conditions. In total, 45 air crashes were recorded, in which 552 people died. As is clear from the statistics, these were mainly light aircraft, on board of which there were no more than 10 people.
year 2012: 23 accidents, 315 fatalities. The most severe case is the fall of the Pakistani Boeing 737, in which all on board (127 people) were killed.
year 2013 was relatively calm: only 5 aircraft accidents, the total number of victims - 128 people. 50 of them died in a Boeing 737 that crashed near Kazan.
year 2014 seriously spoiled the statistics for airlines: 15 accidents, with a total number of victims - 980 people. The largest incident was the downing of a Boeing 777 over Ukraine with 298 people on board.
2015 claimed 478 lives in just 5 air crashes. The loudest is the Russian Airbus A321 that fell over as a result of the terrorist attack, the victims of which were 224 people.
2016 was remembered for the crash of the Tu-154 of the Russian Ministry of Defense, in which 100 people died (92 passengers and 8 crew members). In total, in 12 months, air transport caused the death of 389 people.
2017 went down in history as the safest in the history of civil aviation. In just 12 months, 67 people died.
Which country has the most plane crashes?
If we take into account exclusively passenger air transportation, then there is no pronounced “Bermuda Triangle”, in which planes most often fall. But if we take statistics on all air transport, the result will be somewhat unexpected.
Over the same 6 years, the most air crashes occurred ... in Russia - 41, the number of deaths - 559 people. During the same period, there were 11 accidents in the United States. It is interesting to note that the last one was back in 2013. Next comes Ukraine (7 disasters), Congo (6) and Germany (4, all in 2010).
In general, the numbers are very encouraging. By learning how often aircraft crashes according to statistics, we hope you will feel more confident in flight.
Read more about the airline, the model of the An-148 aircraft and the history of the RA-61704 board in our new material.
Flying record holder. What is known about the plane An-148 "Saratov Airlines", which crashed in the suburbs
21:07, 11.02.2018
Gathered the main thing that is known for Sunday evening
The crash of the An-148 in the suburbs. The main thing about the tragedy in which 71 people died
20:41, 11.02.2018
This concludes the broadcast. Stay tuned for updates in the news section.
20:38, 11.02.2018
What is known so far
- The An-148 aircraft of Saratov Airlines, following the route Domodedovo - Orsk (flight 6W 703), disappeared from radar 7 minutes after takeoff (14:28 Moscow time). There were 71 people on board the aircraft: six crew members and 65 passengers. They all died.
- The causes of the crash are still unknown, however, according to preliminary data, the plane could have crashed due to weather conditions, crew error or a technical malfunction. The Investigative Committee claims that the crew did not report a malfunction of the aircraft.
- The Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov said that the discovered bodies are in such a state that a genetic examination will have to be carried out to identify them. One "black box" was found at the crash site of the plane. The search and rescue operation is complicated by weather conditions. However, rescuers will work at the scene around the clock.
- The Investigative Committee is interrogating the dispatchers and employees of Domodedovo, who were preparing the ship for the flight, and also seizes documentation from the Saratov Airlines company.
20:13, 11.02.2018
Eyewitnesses talk about the moment of the plane crash
20:05, 11.02.2018
Pilot Andrey Litvinov - about the An-148 crash: it doesn't look like icing here
First class pilot, captain of the A-320, "Aeroflot excellent student" Andrey Litvinov Novaya Gazeta:
“This decision [to treat the aircraft with anti-icing liquid or not] is always made by the commander and technical staff. As a rule, when there are precipitations, the aircraft is processed. But there were cases when this rule was violated. For example, a few years ago, when an ATR-72 crashed in Tyumen, or when Artem Borovik crashed on a Yak-40. All of these planes crashed on takeoff.
Usually, if the liquid is not treated, then the plane immediately, already during takeoff, falls. It lifts off the ground, it has no aerodynamics, and it immediately falls onto the wing and falls. But in this case, the plane was gaining altitude and flying, that is, it does not look like icing here.
I got a call from my fellow friends who were landing at Domodedovo after the plane crashed. They say that there was no icing in this area just before the plane crashed. It was snowing, but the snow was not wet, but dry. I think that aircraft icing can be ruled out.