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A310 crash in Moscow
Posted:
13 Feb 2007, 15:13by AlanA
Early reports of an Airbus A310 gone down in Moscow flying in from Europe [:#]
SKY News now reporting that it was taking off from Moscow airport to Berlin. Crew only on board.
Weather the worst snow for two years
Posted:
13 Feb 2007, 15:40by Scrooge
Yep, plane on a repositioning flight, 3 crew on board, all survived
Posted:
13 Feb 2007, 20:56by Speedbird223
According to BBC News it is actually a business jet. They did mention initial reports indicated an A310 had gone down.
Posted:
13 Feb 2007, 21:10by VS045
Here is the BBC account - it does suggest that it was a biz jet, not an A310.
VS.
Posted:
13 Feb 2007, 21:30by tallprawn
SkyNews reports that the aircraft flipped and burst into flames on take-off.
If the report is accurate and the jet did flip, they were very lucky indeed to survive.
Posted:
14 Feb 2007, 00:56by mcmbenjamin
So looks like it was a N-reg'ed CL60.
Posted:
14 Feb 2007, 09:34by iforres1
The jet was indeed a biz jet which left from Vnukovo airport in Moscow. Vnukovo although developing rapidly would be the airport that all VIP's, official delegation etc use and has a bespoke business terminal.
The pilot was American with two other Russian crew on board. I watched the report on Russian news and they claim one engine was on fire at take off. Snow was whiteout conditions.
Glad they all survived.
Iain