Flight 778 Siberia Airlines

The flight Siberia Airlines 778 is a flight of the airline company Siberia Airlines (Russian Sibir) which took fire with the landing with Irkoutsk in Siberia, the July 9th 2006.

The apparatus, a Airbus A310 of the Sibir company transported 195 passengers including 14 older children of less than 12 years, 12 foreigners originating in Germany, of Azerbaïdjan and of Bielorussia, Poland and China and 8 team members, it connected Domodedovo to the Lac Baïkal.

Circumstance of the accident

The accident occurred at 7 a.m. 50, local times, (22 hours 50 GMT). The plane left the runway at the time of the landing and struck a cement wall, then some constructions. Explosions were then heard and the apparatus took fire immediately. According to first-aid workers, before apparatus was almost entirely destroyed.

The reasons of this accident, which has occurred by bad weather, yet were not officially identified. However, according to a source within the board of inquiry, a breakdown of the hydraulic system of ordering of the brakes would be at the origin of the accident.

Assessment

According to the assessment of the Russian ministry of the Emergencies, 124 people perished including three Chinese, a Azerbaijani and a German . One counts 75 survivors including 1 airline hostess and one of the pilots. 52 of them are hospitalized including 6 children but also 2 German, 2 Polish, 2 Azerbaijani and 2 bélarusses, suffering of cranial traumatisms, fractures, burns or poisoning by smoke. A spokesperson of the ministry for the Emergencies, specified that three people whose names were not reproduced on the list of the passengers had been withdrawn without knowledge of the places of the catastrophe. One is unaware of if they were on the ground at the time of the drama or had embarked on board apparatus without being recorded.

External bonds

  • Dispatch of the French daily newspaper Le Monde.
  • Dispatch of the French daily newspaper Le Figaro.
  • Dispatches of Moscow Times
    • Video
  • by the European television channel Euronews
  • Article by Aviation Safety
  • Given on the apparatus
  • Site on the catastrophe
  • Account and photographs of the catastrophe

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