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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Human error 'to blame for Russian plane crash' AFP - Monday, December 6 Send IM Story Print MOSCOW (AFP) - – Russia on Sunday named two passengers killed in a Moscow plane accident amid reports that human error could have caused the Russian-made aircraft's engines to fail, forcing it to crash land. The Dagestan Airlines plane bound for Makhachkala in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan with 169 people on board rolled off the runway at Domodedovo airport Saturday and broke into three pieces, killing two and injuring more than 80. Moscow transport investigators named the dead as Roza Gadzhiyeva, the mother of a judge in Russia's Constitutional Court, and Gadzhimurad Magomedov, the brother of the president of Dagestan, Magomedsalam Magomedov. It was not immediately clear whether Magomedov died in the crash or later in hospital. Reports on Saturday had named the second victim as Irina Khanukayeva. Investigators said in a statement Sunday they were examining all scenarios, but reports questioned whether human error was responsible. A source close to the investigation told the RIA Novosti news agency the crew decided to take off despite two defects on the plane, without elaborating. The crew possibly forgot to switch on fuel pumps while taking off, allowing air to enter the system, a law enforcement source told the Interfax news agency. "All the specialists agree that probably the reason for what happened was human error," the source told Interfax. Investigators on Saturday opened a criminal probe into failure to follow safety procedures. The Interstate Aviation Committee, which examines the black boxes after all air crashes, said the plane crashed after the successive failure of three engines. It did not give more detail. The head of the Russian Aviation Agency, Alexander Neradko, said Saturday that not only had all three of the plane's engines failed but also its generators and navigation system. He said the pilot also had to land the aircraft in difficult weather conditions with low cloud hiding the runway lights until the plane was close to the ground. The airline's general director, Mirza Omariyev, said Saturday the Tupolev-154 plane, dating from 1992, had a major refit in 2009 and was flown by an experienced crew. RIA-Novosti news agency quoted an anonymous source inside Dagestan Airlines as saying that the company's Tupolevs were in bad shape. "Most aircraft and notably the Tupolev-154 have totalled many hours and should be replaced. This incident, with three engines failing, again shows that the company should tackle flight security in a different way," said the source. Russian television said the accident was Dagestan Airlines' third recent emergency landing. In August 2008 an engine caught fire while in November 2009 an engine also failed. The airport where the plane took off, Vnukovo, said its staff thoroughly checked the plane before the flight. It said it also checked the fuel container used to refuel the plane and found no problems. The Tupolev-154 has a chequered record, with the most recent crash in April when a plane carrying Polish president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others came down in fog in northwestern Russia, killing all on board. The bodies of the two people killed in Saturday's crash were flown to Dagestan in a chartered plane on Sunday, the Russian Aviation Agency told the ITAR-TASS news agency. The airline said uninjured passengers would be flown back to Makhachkala Sunday. The health ministry said Sunday that 54 people remained hospitalised after the crash, five in a serious condition. 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