Tu-154 makes emergency landing Bashny.Net

Today, at nine o'clock in the morning at the airport Izhmy made an emergency landing Tu-154, flying from Yakutsk to Moscow. As the correspondent BNKomi the scene, the preliminary cause of the emergency landing was the sudden failure of the air navigation system on board. According to witnesses, during landing the plane skidded off the far helipad, breaking trees, deep in the forest.
Airplane airline "Alrosa", based in the Republic of Sakha peace flying from Moscow Domodedovo to Yakutsk. On board were 72 passengers, the crew evacuated them through emergency exits. Currently, all the passengers transferred to the hotel Izhma sports complex. At the scene works Emergency Situations Ministry.

Izhme Airport was closed and reconstructed into a helipad during perestroika times at the end of the last century.

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By lunchtime in Ukhta airport landed the MI-8 helicopter, which was carrying passengers of the ill-fated plane landed in Izhme. Arriving met by representatives of the city administration and the Emergency Situations Ministry. From the helicopter came 16 adults and three children. One of the passengers in the cage with him was a black cat.
For forty minutes the victims were recorded and checked baggage on the next flight to Moscow, scheduled for half past five in the evening.

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The crew of the Tu-154 was forced to land in Izhme blind - because of the failure of power and navigation equipment the pilots did not know exactly where they are. Furthermore, the fuel was only half an hour. That is why the board did not go any Pechora, Ukhta, Vorkuta and Usinsk, where there are more suitable for this class of aircraft band. Successful landing, tells correspondent, the crew called a miracle. The aircraft came out of the low clouds in the area Izhmy when the crew noticed the swamp in which it was impossible to sit down. After turning the commander saw the first island on the river opposite the Izhmy, and only then noticed the old band, now used as a helipad.



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