Aeroflot Boeing 737 plane crashes in Perm (Urals) in Russia killing 88
As if today’s news about the head-on collision between two trains in Los Angeles last night, killing 25 people and critically wounding over a 100 others, the Delhi bomb blasts killing scores more wasn’t enough… now there’s breaking news according to Sky and BBC News that a Russian passenger Aeroflot airliner has crashed near Perm.
I don’t understand how the death count can already be confirmed… but apparently all 83 passengers (82 adults plus a baby), and 5 crew members, on board have perished. Perm is a city nears Urals.
According to Irina Andrianova of the Russian Emergency Ministry, the Aeroflot Boeing 737 had taken off from the Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, but while attempting to land it lost communications contact at about 1800 feet.
Vladimir Markin, a Russian government investigator was quoted, by Russian news agency RIA Novosti:
According to the latest information, the airplane fell into a ravine near the city limits. There were 82 passengers plus a baby and five crew on board, and by preliminary information, they are all dead,”
Markin also mentioned that the Trans-Siberian railway line had been damaged by the plane crash.
It’ll be interesting to see how much real news comes out of this tragedy and how soon it gets out.
Regardless, it won’t help to uplift the “reputation” of AeroFlot…
The flight was operated by subsidiary AEROFLOT NORD or AEROFLOT DON from Moscow - Sheremetyevo airport