On Saturday, Airbus A-321 operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia crashed in the Sinai Peninsula en route from the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh to St. Petersburg. All 224 people on board, including 25 children, were confirmed dead by Russian and Egyptian authorities.
The tragedy has already been named the biggest civil aviation disaster in Russian and Soviet history.
After the tail part of the Airbus A321 plane had sustained damages, the airliner was fully repaired. The technical condition of the plane was normal, Kogalymavia officials said.
“Before the A321 began falling, it most likely had received considerable damage to its construction that would not allow it to fly. Obviously, due to this, when the catastrophic situation started to unfold, the crew completely lost control over the plane, which would explain why there were no attempts to communicate and report on the emergency situation on board,” the airlines’ deputy general director of technical and production issues, Andrei Averianov, said at a press conference in Moscow.
External forces are the only possible reason of the deadly crash, Kogalymavia officials said Monday. Kogalymavia 7K9268 flight likely suffered substantial damages when it started to fall, officials said.
Only possible explanation for the crash is "physical or mechanical actions," the officials said.
The Kogalymavia plane's crew completely lost control over the aircraft as the disaster started to unfold. The Airbus A321 had been in uncontrolled flight as the catastrophe unfolded. However, Kogalymavia excluded human or technical factors as the cause for the deadly crash in Egypt, officials said.
However, the crashed Russian airliner had passed all necessary tests; and the technical condition of the plane was good, the company's top manager said Monday. The aircraft's engines were inspected in Moscow on October 26; no problems were found. Moreover, there were no problems with the quality of fuel used by the Russian airliner.
- The Russian airline does not exclude a terrorist attack or an explosion as reasons behind the 7K9268 flight's deadly crash.
Kogalymavia halted flights over the Sinai Peninsula, the company's top manager said. There are no doubts that the investigation into the Russian plane crash is objective, officials said.
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The Russian airline whose jet crashed in Egypt killing all 224 people on board has said it came down because of "external" factors and could not have been caused by technical faults or human error...
ReplyDeleteThe crash, in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, could only have been the result of some other "technical or physical action" which caused it to break up in the air and then plummet to the ground, said Alexander Smirnov, deputy general director of the airline, Kogalymavia.
Mr Smirnov told a news conference in Moscow that "the only explanation, is some kind of external action", without giving further details.
Meanwhile, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has called for a thorough investigation into the plane crash.
"The key task is to investigate in detail what caused the tragedy," Mr Medvedev said.
The Russian passenger plane had passed a safety review carried out by the Irish Aviation Authority earlier this year.
The Airbus aircraft was registered in Ireland through a leasing company but was operated by Russian airline Metrojet.
"The Irish Aviation Authority conducted an annual review of the aircraft certifications in support of its annual Certificate of Airworthiness renewal process and all certifications were satisfactory at that point in time," a spokesman said.
He added that oversight of the operation of the aircraft, including daily and monthly checks, was Russia's responsibility under International Civil Aviation Organisation rules.
Two inspectors from the Air Accident Investigation Unit and an expert from the Irish Aviation Authority are expected to travel to Egypt today to join the investigation into the cause of the crash.
The head of the Russia's Air Transport Agency said the airliner disintegrated at high altitude.........http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1102/738956-russia-plane-crash/