Airliner crashes in Russia; over 60 aboard reported dead
 

[(CNN)A Boeing 737 passenger jet crashed as it was landing
at the Rostov-on-Don airport in southern Russia,
the country's Southern Regional Emergency Center said Saturday.
All people on board have died, Russian state news agency Tass
reported, citing an official at the emergency center. ]


http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/18/eu...ash/index.html

http://news.sky.com/story/1662833/pa...outhern-russia


Sad day for Russia

R.I.P

..really not the type of news that you want to wake up to any morning, so tragic...their poor families..:sad:..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35850178

video showing the crash is here^^. It was circling the runway for 2 hours :umm2: trying to land

RIP


and my condolences to the victim's families :(

2 hours I wonder why they didn't divert, they must have been running low on fuel..awful

It seems that it was pilot error, whether that be through inexperience or something else. It's clear there needs to be more stringent checks on pilots.

Thats nearly the same amount of people that die in car crashes every half an hour.

that maybe true but its not really a competition and the thread is not stating it is.

Who said it was :shrug: behave.

Such sad news :(

4 children among the dead :( :(

irrelevant

This is very very sad :(

Two hours of circling?surely it had enough fuel to get to the next nearest airport?

Probably true but i think it's the fear factor.People imagine how terrifying it must be to be trapped inside that little metal fuel filled box hurtling towards the ground.Car crashes are usually a little more unexpected without all that suspence before you die.

Don't they normally circle the airport to use up the fuel if something isn't working right, like the landing gear.
R.I.P. to all those people aboard. So tragic.


Edit. Oooops, just read it was circling due to bad weather conditions.

It appears due to Strong Winds
that the Plane was trapped.
It caught on Fire seconds before impact

Ref: France24 , SkyNewsHD

C- must try harder in class kid :pat:

Yes you are right with the fear factor aspect i just always find it strange that nearly 3500 a day die in car crashes without barely being taken note of.
I just find the fixation with things like air crash deaths and terrorism deaths really strange compared to how rare they are.

Airline safety is amazing you have more chance of dying from falling out of bed or being struck by lightning and you are 55 times more likely to die from a TV falling on you than you are from an islamic terrorist attack and yet hundreds of billions of pounds arent spent building better TV stands to combat that menace.

Fear is a powerful tool.

My thoughts exactly Paul. It is totally baffling, and seems on the surface, to be another totally preventable tragic loss of life caused by human pilot error.