BREAKING NEWS: Bizjet Down in Moscow!

[JordanD]

Wow that looks pretty bad. Good to see everybody survived. I hope their injuries aren't too serious though.

[DeltaRules]

That's the smallest A310 I've ever seen...haha

On a serious note, glad the four on board got out OK.

DeltaRules

Oh snappp. Just read about it on Телекомпания НТВ website. According to the Russians the plane was to fly from Moscow to Berlin for technical checks. There were no passengers on board and varying from sources 3-4 crew members who were injured. Vnukovo airport is closed and planes are diverted to Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo.

http://news.ntv.ru/103493/ - you can watch a TV News video on that site showing the airport.

It was a Chellenger and there are two version of the crash reason: #1 that it crashed due to bad weather conditinos and #2 that it crashed due to stalling. Imiidiately after crashing it cought fire.

Edit: from the lates Russian news that I wacthed the aircraft was cahrtered by Nabban Investment Inc. from Virgin Islands. There were 3 american pilots and a russian fa. The crash happened at 16:50 moscow time, 10:50 eastern at low visibility (less than 1200m)

LOL best place to get news about this cruss is Russian website/TV station...I love satellite LMAO @ Germanwings A310 !!!

[JordanD]

So I take it there was no A310?

[Bok269]

Glad to hear everyone's ok.

[Stephen Toernblom]

If it's the following aircraft, that is hard to swallow, its based here at LGB and I just saw it a couple of days ago.


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[Alex - Spot-This !]

confirmed it's "only" a CL-600. No fatalities.

http://www.aif.ru/newsfeed?news=6541 in Russian
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6358103.stm in english


Plane is :
N168CK
Aircraft Serial Number : 7099
Aircraft Manufacturer : CANADAIR
Model : CL-600-2B19
Engine Manufacturer : GE
Model : CF-34-1A
Aircraft Year : 1996
Owner Name : WELLS FARGO BANK NORTHWEST NA TRUSTEE
Owner Address : 299 S MAIN ST FL 12 MAC U1228-120
SALT LAKE CITY, UT, 84111
Type of Owner : Corporation
Registration Date : 01-Sep-2006
Airworthiness Certificate Type : Standard
Approved Operations : Transport

[DAL767-400ER]

Did the eyewitnesses at VNU drink too much vodka? I can understand if people can't tell a 737 from a 757, but a CL-600 from an A310? Not that similar, now, are those? Though it makes more sense, as VNU is Moscow's GA airport of sorts.

[magic48]

I think it's more likely that they mistook whichever type of plane actually crashed with the other one.

EDIT: Anet now seems to confirm that it was a Canadair CL-600 jet: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1174201/L/

[FlyingPhotog]

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070213/60673344.html
Another one???

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=11676775

Exploded on takeoff???

WTF? 2 major incidents, same day, same airport?

[JordanD]

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070213/60673344.html
Another one???

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=11676775

Exploded on takeoff???

[magic48]

MOSCOW, Russia(AP) -- A jet carrying three crew members but no passengers crashed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport on Tuesday, emergency and aviation officials said. An aviation official said the crew survived.

The plane crashed upon takeoff in a snowstorm on a flight from Moscow to Berlin, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman said. She said it was an Airbus A-310, but a spokesman for Russia's Air Navigation Service, Andrei Pryanishnikov, said it was a smaller, American-made plane - possibly a corporate jet.

He said all three people on board survived.

The plane overturned while taking off and caught fire, air traffic controller Konstantin Fyodorov said on state-run television.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/13/plane.crash.ap/index.html

I guess we'll have to wait until we get any confirmation on whether it was a commercial or corporate jet.

[RingwaySam]

Yeah - At first it had gone down, hence the thread name and then it overshot the runway I've just heard froma friend that it was a Germanwings A319 but we'll have to wait for more info!

[DAL767-400ER]

Thankfully no one was killed, which is definitely positive. Also love how Interfax claimed this was a plane from Germanwings, when Germanwings never had A310s to begin with .

[RingwaySam]

An airliner has crashed in a snowstorm on take-off at Moscow's Vnukovo airport.

The Russian Emergency Ministry says the plane was an Airbus A310 heading for Berlin.

The plane overturned while taking off and caught fire, air traffic controller Konstantin Fyodorov said on state-run television.

Quoting unidentified law enforcement officials, the Interfax news agency reported that the crew survived, although emergency officials could not immediately confirm the report.

The plane was not carrying passengers.

Sky's Moscow Correspondent Alex Rossi said: "The weather here in the last few hours has turned into a whiteout - they're forecasting the worst weather for years - which could make it very tricky for pilots."

More to follow...

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...251445,00.html

Another crash in Russia