Daily Stormer
March 19, 2016
Always suspicious when there’s something to do with Moslems, Russia and death. But this does look like an accident.
So far.
A Dubai airliner with 62 people on board nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball early Saturday while trying to land in strong winds in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, killing all aboard, officials said.
Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said the Boeing 737-800 operated by FlyDubai was carrying 55 passengers, most of them Russians, and seven crew members of various nationalities. FlyDubai confirmed that there were no survivors and said four children were among those killed.
The powerful explosion pulverized the plane into fragments, but investigators quickly recovered both flight recorders. The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately known, but officials and experts suggested a sudden gust of wind could have been a possible reason.
CBS News transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave reports that other potential causes being looked at are pilot error and a technical failure.
“Our primary concern is for the families of the passengers and crew who were on board. Everyone at FlyDubai is in deep shock and our hearts go out to the families and friends of those involved,” said CEO Ghaith al-Ghaith.
Vasily Golubev, the governor of the Rostov region some 600 miles south of Moscow, was quoted by Russian news agencies as telling local journalists that the plane crashed about 800 feet short of the runway.
The cause of the crash was not immediately determined, but Golubev said: “By all appearances, the cause of the air crash was the strongly gusting wind, approaching a hurricane level.”
Russian investigators said they were looking into adverse weather and a possible pilot error as the most likely causes of the crash.
Video of the crash has been released.
Investigators are presently sorting through the wreckage.