Posted on September 14, 2008 - by Venik
Aeroflot Boeing 737 crash kills 88
A Boeing 737 airliner – Flight 821 operated by CJSC Aeroflot-Nord, a subsidiary of Russia’s leading airline operator Aeroflot – crashed in bad weather on approach to the airport in Perm, near the Ural mountains. The aircraft was en-route to Perm from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. All 82 passengers and 6 crew member aboard were killed in the crash. The aircraft came down in a wasteland area near a residential zone in the Industrial district in south-western Perm.
According to preliminary reports, the aircraft exploded while still in the air, scattering debris in an area four klometers across, damaging 500 meters of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Authorities reported that the pilots might have been trying to make an emergency landind after losing one of the engines. Aeroflot’s previous crash occured in 1994, when an Airbus A310-304 crahsed due to pilot error in the Kemerovo region of Russia.
The large area covered by the aircraft’s debris seems to confirm the reports that the plane exploded before impacting the ground. Mid-air explosions are uncommon in crashes that do not involve mid-air collisions or acts of terrorism. The Boeing 737 is able to fly and land safely on just one working engine. A possibility has been raised by MChS (Russia’s Emergencies Ministry) officials that one of the aircraft’s engines caught on fire, leading to the subsequent explosion in the high-pressure fuel lines. However, at this time no official crash theories have been released.
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