Its investigation will take at least two months, as required by Russian law, according to Sputnik. “We are making arrangements for the families who wish to visit the scene of the accident, to do so”, he said. “If weather wasn’t suitable, the plane wouldn’t have flown”.
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“The fact that the plane was circling around the area for two hours while other planes left to other airports suggests that the wind was very strong”, Moskvichev explained. The final Flightradar24 readings then showed the plane losing altitude and still gaining airspeed.
Investigators earlier found the crashed plane’s first and second flight data recorders, and its first voice recorder.
The main phase had been completed and victims’ remains recovered and sent for forensic analysis, it reported.
The plane was manufactured in 2011 and was last checked on January 21, an airline official said. Four children were among the dead.
Huge amount of work would be carried out by the department, the committee said, adding that investigators have interviewed more than 40 people so far, including victims’ relatives, airport staff, FlyDubai’s representatives and meteorological experts. The only danger could have been a crosswind, he said. The Boeing-737 airplane caught fire and crashed while landing at the Rostov-on-Don Airport, which is shut down.
FlyDubai CEO Ghaith Al Ghaith confirmed the crash of flight FZ981 in a video on Saturday, March 19, and promised to do?everything we can? to help those affected.
Vasily Golubev, the governor of the Rostov region, said on Saturday that the plane crashed around 800ft short of the runway. The flight was en route from Dubai and crashed during its second landing approach amid poor weather conditions.
Work had begun to decipher and analyze the copied information, it said. The airline says it operates more than 1,400 flights a week. The city is 600 miles south of Moscow near the Ukrainian border.
The FlyDubai Boeing 737-800, coming from Dubai, missed the runway as it attempted to land on Saturday.
“Diversion is a judgment call”, Ghaith said in a statement.
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Experts from Russian Federation, the United Arab Emirates and France were examining the black boxes in Moscow, according to the aviation commission. [Image via AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili]FlyDubai is a budget airline that was established in July 2008 and currently owned by the government of Dubai, now operating between 95 destinations.
