After circling a southern Russian
airport for more than two hours because of high ground-level winds and poor
visibility, a passenger jet from the United Arab Emirates crashed during a
landing attempt, killing all 62 people aboard.
The flydubai Boeing 737 took off from
Dubai and was scheduled to land at the Rostov-on-Don airport at 1:20 a.m.
Saturday (6:20 p.m. ET Friday), Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov
said.
But it didn't come down -- about 800
feet from a runway -- until 3:50 a.m. By that point, Russian state media
reported, there were winds of about 60 mph.
Authorities have ruled out terrorism
as a cause of the crash. Instead, according to investigative committee
spokeswoman Oksana Kovrizhnaya, they will be looking at three possibilities:
technical issues, severe weather and human error.
Kovrizhnaya said the investigations
will take at least two months, as required by Russian law, but "could be
prolonged," according to state-run Sputnik news.
Credit: CNN
Credit: CNN
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