Flight 612 Pulkovo Airlines

The flight FV612 Tupolev You-154 Pulkovo is a flight of the Airline company Pulkovo Airlines which was crushed the August 22nd 2006 close to the village of Soukha Balka to 45 km in the north of Donetsk, in the east of the Ukraine.

The apparatus, a Tupolev You-154 of the company Pulkovo Airlines transported 160 passengers including 39 children and two German, a Finnish, a French and a Dutch and 10 team members, it connected the seaside resort of Anapa, in the south of the Russia to Saint-Petersbourg. There is no survivor. The You-154 is the standard apparatus more used for the Russian internal air relations. According to Pulkovo Airlines, the apparatus, brought into service in 1992, had with its credit slightly more than 24.000 hours of vol.

Circumstances of the accident

The Ukrainian ministry of the Emergencies affirmed that a fire was declared inside the plane whereas it flew to approximately 10.000 meters of altitude. The crew of the plane obviously decided to carry out an emergency landing, but the landing gear did not leave and the apparatus landed on the belly in the middle of a field, being dislocated and blazing up instantaneously.

Russian persons in charge evoked the possibility that the fire was caused by the lightning, or that the apparatus crossed violent zones of turbulence. The thesis of the terrorist attack was drawn aside by the authorities.

A S.O.S launched a few minutes before the crash landing, was recorded at 3 p.m. 37 (11 hours 37 hour of Moscow). At 3 p.m. 39, the apparatus disappears from the radars of the air-traffic controllers.

Assessment

According to the Russian ministry of the Emergencies, quoting data of the Ukrainian first-aid workers , thirty bodies was already on the spot discovered. There would be no survivor.

Help

A plane and several helicopters of Ukrainian first-aid workers were dispatched on the spot of the drama, whereas the Russia sent a plane of the ministry for the Emergencies.

External bonds

  • Page of 1001crash.com
  • Page of Aviation Safety
  • Given on crushing
  • Photographs of the apparatus

References

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