AP Dec5'10 - เครื่อง Tupolev TU -154 ของรัสเซียอีกแล้ว Dagestan Airlines เครื่องบรรทุกผู้โดยสาร 155 คน ขณะทำการบินอยู่ที่ระดับ 30000 ฟุต นักบินได้รับสัญญาณว่าเครื่องยนต์ 2เครื่องจาก 3 เครื่องได้ดับลง
ทำให้นักบินขอลงฉุกเฉินที่สนามบิน Domodedovo กรุงมอสโค ขณะที่นักบินกำลัง landing เครื่องยนต์เครื่องที่ 3
ก็ดับลงอีก นักบินนำเครื่องลงและเครื่องวิ่งออกนอกทางวิ่งทำให้เครื่องแตกออกเป็น 3 ส่วน และเกือบจะชนเข้ากับรั้ว
และมีผู้โดยสารเสียชีวิต 2 คน ได้รับบาดเจ็บ 83 คน
เมื่อเร็วๆนี้ที่ผ่านมาประมาณเดือนกันยายน เครื่องรัสเซีย ก็เกิดเครื่องยนต์ดับมาแล้วครั้งหนึ่ง
อันเนื่องมาจากระบบไฟฟ้าขัดข้อง ครั้งนั้นมีผู้โดยสาร 72 แต่ไม่มีผู้โดยสารเสียชีวิต เครื่องร่อนลงที่ป่าละเมาะ
MOSCOW – Two engines failed on a Russian passenger jet shortly after takeoff Saturday, and the plane made an emergency landing as its third engine cut out, skidding off the snowy runway and breaking apart, officials said. Two people were killed and 83 injured.
The plane, a Tupolev Tu-154 belonging to Dagestan Airlines, was carrying at least 155 people when it landed at Domodedovo Airport, federal aviation agency spokesman Sergei Izvolsky said.
The cause of the engine failure was unclear, he said, but recent crashes involving the aging Tu-154 aircraft have prompted the Russian carrier Aeroflot to stop using it.
Officials said 155 people were aboard the Dagestan Airlines plane, but the Emergencies Ministry said in a website statement that the aircraft was carrying 168 passengers and 8 crew members. It was not immediately possible to resolve the discrepancy.
The plane had taken off from another Moscow hub, Vnukovo Airport, and was en route to Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's southern region of Dagestan, officials said. Federal aviation agency spokesman Sergei Izvolsky said the pilot received signals that engines had cut out about 80 kilometers (50 miles) into the flight at an altitude of 9,100 meters (30,000 feet), and requested an emergency landing at Domodedovo, to the southeast of Moscow.
Federal officials said two people were killed, and Health Minister Tatyana Golikova said in a website statement that 83 injured people were taken to five hospitals.
The federal Investigative Committee said in a website statement that two of the three engines had initially cut out, and the third failed as the plane was coming in to land.
"The plane slid off the runway and, having hit uneven ground, broke up," the statement said. A previous Investigative Committee statement had said the plane slammed into buildings after touching down.
Passenger Vitaly Chumak was quoted by Russian news agency Interfax as saying the plane broke into three parts after landing and barely missed a fence.
In September, a Tu-154 airliner was carrying 72 passengers and nine crew when it suffered an electrical system failure while flying from the northern Siberian town of Polyarnyi to Moscow. President Dmitry Medvedev bestowed awards on the pilot, who landed the plane and avoided casualties, despite rolling into a forest outside an abandoned military base.
The Tu-154 has been the workhorse of the Soviet and post-Soviet civilian aviation industry, first entering service in the 1970s. But after a series of crashes involving the aging fleet raised safety concerns, flagship carrier Aeroflot recently withdrew all of its Tu-154s from service, with the last flight in January.
The midrange jet remains, however, the mainstay of smaller airlines across Russia and the former Soviet Union. It is banned from parts of Europe due to excessive engine noise.
The plane that crashed in heavy fog earlier this year killing Polish President Lech Kaczynski also was a Tu-154.
On Saturday, Domodedovo Airport switched scheduled flights to a second runway, and normal service was not affected, officials said in televised comments.
AP – In this photo taken on a cell phone by an eyewitness, showing a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet belonging …
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