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Two killed as plane makes emergency landing in Russia
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MOSCOW (AFP) - – A passenger plane broke apart after rolling off the runway at a Moscow airport in an emergency landing Saturday, killing two people and injuring more than 80, Russian investigators said.
The Dagestan Airlines Tupolev airliner carrying 169 people overshot the runway after crash landing at Domodedovo airport outside Moscow, with all three engines dead, authorities said.
"As a result of the accident of the Tu-154 plane, two people died," the health ministry said in a statement. "In total, 83 people have been hospitalised."
"We are taking all necessary and possible measures to provide emergency care to the injured," Health Minister Tatyana Golikova was quoted as saying in the statement.
Golikova and Transport Minister Igor Levitin reported back to President Dmitry Medvedev on the rescue operation, the Kremlin said in a statement.
Interfax news agency said the mother of a constitutional court judge, Gadisa Gadzhyeva, died in the accident and the brother of Dagestan President Magomedsalam Magomedov was hurt and in hospital.
The plane's nose was smashed and the fuselage broke into several sections, but passengers praised the skill of the pilots in landing the ageing Tupolev, which has a tarnished safety record.
Passenger Gamzat Guitinomagomedov told AFP he was returning to his native Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, after working in Moscow.
"As we landed, we thought we were safe, but the landing was very rough, and then there was a big shock as we hit something," he said.
"I was sitting in the middle. The plane broke in two about four or five seats in front of me as if it had been cut, completely."
"We saw the people who were there, they had broken legs, blood everywhere."
Investigators said the plane broke apart when it hit uneven ground beside the runway.
"Around 100 metres (109 yards) from the airport's concrete wall, the plane met a natural obstacle, a hill, and broke up on collision into three large pieces," the head of the Russian Aviation Agency, Alexander Neradko, said in televised comments.
"The crew did a good job," one passenger, Valery Chumak, told the Interfax news agency. "If we had hit the wall that was nearby, we would have blown up."
Two engines had failed shortly after take-off from Moscow's Vnukovo airport, forcing the crew to put down at Domodedovo, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the Russian capital.
The third engine failed on landing and the plane overshot the runway, Sergei Izvolsky, an advisor at the Russian Aviation Agency, said in televised comments.
A criminal investigation had been opened into breaches of safety rules, investigators said.
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.
Photographers and journalists at the airport were not allowed near the aircraft.
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 plane dated back to 1992 but had undergone major renovations in 2009, Russian television reported.
The aircraft's last major fatal crash was on April 10, when a Tu-154 carrying Polish president Lech Kaczynski and other top Polish officials came down in fog near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all on board.
While more than 1,000 of the medium-range jet were built, the Soviet design is elderly, first flying in 1972 and going out of production in 1994.
Other recent major accidents involving the plane were in July last year in northern Iran, killing all 168 on board and in August 2006 in Ukraine with 171 dead.
In September this year a Tu-154 made a "miraculous" emergency landing on an abandoned runway in Siberia with 81 people on board after suffering a mid-air power failure.
Nobody was hurt in the landing, which the pilot achieved with no working navigation gear and at high speed, overshooting the runway by several hundred metres but causing only minor damage.
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