भर्खरै २०० जना बोकेर उडेको विमानमा आगो लाग्यो,भर्खरै २०० जना बोकेर उडेको विमानमा आगो लाग्यो
,भर्खरै २०० जना बोकेर उडेको विमानमा आगो लाग्यो
Russian experts investigating a plane crash outside Moscow that killed 71 people at the weekend have said the accident may have been caused by ice on instruments that led to faulty information on the craft’s airspeed.
“A factor in the development of a special situation in the flight could be the wrong data about flight speed on pilots’ indicators, which was likely due to iced pitot tubes [speed probes] while their heating systems were shut off,” said the Russian Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), which investigates aircraft incidents.
The Antonov An-148 plane took off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on Sunday bound for the Russian city of Orsk and went down in a field about 70 kilometres (40 miles) south-east of Moscow shortly after. All 65 passengers and six crew members died.
Russian passenger plane crashes outside Moscow, killing 71
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The IAC said it had completed analysis of the on-board flight recorder and would still need to analyse the black box that recorded conversations in the cockpit. It would also look at whether the pitot tubes could have malfunctioned.
Iced-over pitot tube instruments were named as one of the likely reasons behind the Air France 447 flight crashing into the Atlantic in 2009, killing 228 people on board.
