Jet rolls off Moscow runway, splits apart

[Cebu_4_2]

Wholey shit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3Zaqi5DwCYE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3Zaqi5DwCYE

By Alissa de Carbonnel, Reuters
MOSCOW -- A Russian airliner split into pieces after it slid off the runway and crashed onto a highway outside Moscow on Saturday, killing at least four of the 12 crew on board and leaving smoking chunks of fuselage on the icy road.
Television footage showed the Tupolev 204 jet, broken into pieces, with smoke billowing from the tail end and the cockpit broken clean off the front.
A man was thrown from the plane as it rammed into the barrier of the highway outside Vnukovo airport, one witness told the TV channel Rossiya-24.
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Another witness described pulling other people from the wreckage.
"The plane split into three pieces," Yelena Krylova, chief spokeswoman for the airport, said in televised comments.

[Horn]

Was that a commercial flight?

The wheel hit the car he was following.

[Horn]

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A passenger jet has crashed after taking a hard landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport, witnesses say. Three people were killed and at least three others were taken to hospital in a critical condition, says Russia’s Interior Ministry.


Two of the dead people appear to be the pilots, witnesses say recalling the uniform they were wearing.
The plane was flying in from Pardubice, the Czech Republic, and was carrying at least eight people (up to twelve according to various reports). Vnukovo Airport says that everyone onboard were the crew. Pardubice Airport confirms that:
“There was only the crew aboard. No Czech nationals were among them. Before taking off the operating company checked all the plane’s systems and said they were functioning normally,” Pardubice press-service told Gazeta.ru.


The incident took place at around 16:35 local time (12:35 GMT). Preliminary reports say the jet, which belongs to Russian low-cost airline Red Wings, crashed after taking a second landing attempt. It rolled out from the runway into Kievskoye Highway, fell into three pieces and caught fire. The fire area of 100 square meters was extinguished by firefighters, officials said.


The circumstances of the incident are being clarified. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered to set up a special investigation group to look into the accident.


Earlier, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry confirmed that the plane had to make a forced landing.
Part of the crashed Tupolev-204 blocked the highway; a traffic jam developed at the scene. Vnukovo-bound flights are getting diverted to Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo airports.


Red Wings is a Russian airline that specializes in charter flights to Russia and Europe. In 2012 the company began to operate regular flights throughout Russia. The company is the largest buyer of Russian-made Tu-204 airplanes.

Red Wings is owned by the Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev. In November 2012, a company leasing planes to Red Wings filed eight lawsuits demanding some $65 million in debts. However, it was reported that lawsuits were just a formal procedure and the dispute between the two companies would be resolved out of court.

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[midnight rambler]

Crashed plane is RA-64047

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/8/1/7/2206718.jpg

An up to date jetliner with a glass cockpit -

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/5/3/9/1647935.jpg

View of interior of RA-64047 -

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/3/2/9/1578923.jpg

[General of Darkness]

Aside from the crash it's apparent to me that someone with simple means but became a KGB agent was one of the few people that robbed the USSR blind right after the break up.

Early life and education Alexander Lebedev was born in Moscow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow). His parents were part of the Moscow intelligentsia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligentsia). His father, Evgeny Nikolaevich Lebedev, was a sportsperson - a member of the Soviet National Water polo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_polo) team, and was later a Professor at Bauman Moscow Highest Technical School (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_Technical_University). Alexander's mother, Maria Sergeyevna, after graduating from Moscow Pedagogic Institute worked in a rural Sakhalin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin) school, then taught English in a Moscow tertiary school.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebedev#cite_note-Pers-3)
In 1977, Alexander Lebedev entered the Department of Economics at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations) . After he graduated in 1982, Lebedev started work at the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System doing research for his Kandidat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandidat) (equal to Ph.D.) dissertation The problems of debt and the challenges of globalization. However he soon transferred to the First Chief Directorate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chief_Directorate) (Foreign Intelligence) of KGB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB). He worked there and at its successor Foreign Intelligence Service (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Service_%28Russia%29) until 1992.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebedev#cite_note-Pers-3) In London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London) he had the diplomatic cover of an economics attaché (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attach%C3%A9). According to Lebedev's personal site his assignments included fighting capital flight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_flight) from the Russian Federation.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebedev#cite_note-Pers-3) The Sunday Express (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Express) stated that he “spent more time studying finance and the City than British secrets”.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebedev#cite_note-Times-2)



Where did this KGB agent get the money to buy a bank?


Business career http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Vladimir_Putin_7_May_2002-4.jpg/220px-Vladimir_Putin_7_May_2002-4.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vladimir_Putin_7_May_2002-4.jpg) http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.21wmf6/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vladimir_Putin_7_May_2002-4.jpg)
Lebedev with President of Russia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Russia) Vladimir Putin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin) on 7 May 2002


Upon leaving the Russian intelligence community, Lebedev set up his first company, the Russian Investment-Finance Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russian_Investment-Finance_Company&action=edit&redlink=1). In 1995 this bought the National Reserve Bank (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Reserve_Bank_%28Russia%29&action=edit&redlink=1), a small Russian bank which was in trouble at the time. The bank subsequently grew rapidly to become one of Russia's largest banks. It and the Alfa Bank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Bank) were the only two out of the ten biggest Russian banks to survive the 1998 Russian financial crisis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Russian_financial_crisis).[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebedev#cite_note-4) Among the bank's assets are:



11% of the main Russian national airline Aeroflot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot)[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebedev#cite_note-Leb_BNE-5)
44% of the Ilyushin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin) Finance Co, that owns a significant share of Russian aircraft-building industry
significant parts of Sberbank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sberbank), Gazprom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazprom), RAO UES (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAO_UES)