Symbol copyright Reuters Symbol caption The plane’s left engine stuck hearth after the plane left the runway
A passenger jet skidded off the runway and caught hearth whilst touchdown in the Russian city of Sochi, injuring 18 other people, officials have mentioned.
Flight UT579, a Boeing 737-800 operated by way of the Utair airline, was once sporting 164 passengers and six crew from Moscow.
Video shows fierce flames from the airplane after it crashed in the course of the airport fence and fell right into a riverbed.
Some of the injured suffered burns, others carbon monoxide poisoning, officers said.
A spokesperson at Sochi airport mentioned one airport worker had suffered a deadly heart assault through the rescue operation.
The jet used to be trying to land in robust wind and heavy rain early on Saturday, Russian media reported.
Russia’s NTV channel carried photographs and video of the incident.
Symbol copyright EPA Symbol caption A Utair Boeing 737-500 landing at Riga in Latvia. File symbol
The airplane’s undercarriage and a wing were broken when it left the runway and a left engine then caught fireplace.
Three of the injured are children.
The hearth has now been extinguished.
Russia’s Investigative Committee has introduced a criminal investigation into the incident “on suspicion of insufficient services and products with a possibility to clients’ well being”.
Last month, a helicopter belonging to Utair crashed in north-western Siberia, killing 18 other folks.
The fatal crash of a Russian airliner at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport in February again raised fear approximately national air safety.
It was once the 3rd leading aircraft crash in the united states given that 2015.
