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07-09-2006, 02:57 AM
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Nearly 150 people, including many children, are feared dead after a Russian airliner crashed in Siberia.
The Sibir Airbus A-310 plane was flying from Moscow when it crashed on landing at Irkutsk airport.
The plane reportedly slid off the runway and hit a building at about 0800 on Sunday (2300 GMT Saturday).
About 55 people were injured, Russian officials said. The plane was carrying 192 passengers and eight crew. All the crew were said to have died.
Many of the passengers were reported to be children travelling to the nearby popular holiday destination of Lake Baikal.
The aircraft appeared to veer out of control on landing.
It overshot the runway then crashed through a concrete wall, before hitting a building close to the airfield. It then broke up and burst into flames.
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My thoughts are with the famillies
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I would like to know now that we are on the topic of airliners that crash, does any of you guys know anything about a South African Airways Boeing 747-300 named Helderberg that explode and crashed in the sea near Mariachis in 1987?
I ask because if you search on Google and nothing that can help me, it lookslike the South African Government is hiding something and I can not find any pictures of the aircraft after the salvage operation to find the wreckage.
Any help would be appreciated.
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07-09-2006, 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Henk Nasty sh*t really. This is really bad and I think of the poor family's who lost members of there family's.
I would like to know now that we are on the topic of airliners that crash, does any of you guys know anything about a South African Airways Boeing 747-300 named Helderberg that explode and crashed in the sea near Mariachis in 1987?
I ask because if you search on Google and nothing that can help me, it lookslike the South African Government is hiding something and I can not find any pictures of the aircraft after the salvage operation to find the wreckage.
Any help would be appreciated. | maybe this will help ASN Aircraft accident description Boeing 747-244B ZS-SAS - Mauritius [Indian Ocean]
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Originally Posted by Gnomey Yeah I know but still that is fairly blatant... | I'd show you the MSN news page but they have edited it with the correct info.
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