MOSCOW, August 15. /TASS/. A total of 23 people were taken to the hospital following the crash landing of an Ural Airlines flight en route from Moscow to Crimea’s Simferopol in the Moscow region, the Russian Health Ministry said in a statement.
Outpatient assistance has been provided to 22 people who suffered injuries in the crash landing, only one woman had to be hospitalized.
“All passengers brought to the Ramenskoye Central District Hospital by ambulance teams were examined by doctors. As many as 22 people received outpatient care, while a 69-year-old woman had to be hospitalized. Her life and health are not in danger, but her condition is serious, though almost fair,” the statement reads.
Two ambulance teams remain at Zhukovsky International Airport.
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Meanwhile, Ural Airlines Director General Kirill Skuratov told TASS that all passengers willing to continue their trip to Simferopol would be taken to Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport after they went through medical examinations. “We are ready to put families with children on the next available flights. A reserve aircraft will arrive in Domodedovo in the afternoon,” he said.
The plane that made a crash landing was significantly damaged and won’t perform flights in the near future, the airline said in a statement.
About one tonne of fuel leaked from the passenger jet, emergency services told TASS.
“The plane had 16 tonnes of fuel in its tanks. It had spent a tiny 500 liters. After the emergency landing a leak occurred. It has been eliminated by now. Up to one tonne of fuel may have leaked,” the source said.
A probe has been launched into the accident, Spokesperson for the Moscow Inter-Regional Transport Prosecutor’s Office Yekaterina Korotkova told TASS.
Flight data recorders of the Airbus A321 plane are intact and will be handed over to experts from the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), an official spokesman for the Federal Air Transport Agency said.
“Black boxes of the A321 plane have not been damaged in the emergency landing near Moscow and will be sent to the IAC,” the spokesman said.
An Airbus A321 made a crash landing near Zhukovsky International Airport in the Moscow region earlier on Thursday. According to the airline, both engines of the plane failed after hitting birds. There were 226 passengers and seven crew members aboard the aircraft.
Source:tass.com/emergencies
