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DISASTER: FlyDubai plane crashed, killing all 62 people on board

 
 Disaster occured in the early hours of  Saturda as a  Dubai airliner with 62 people on board nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball early Saturday while trying to land in strong winds in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, killing all aboard, officials said.
Accordding to Associate Press, Russia's Emergencies Ministry said the Boeing 737-800 operated by FlyDubai was carrying 55 passengers, most of them Russians, and seven crew members of various nationalities. FlyDubai confirmed that there were no survivors and said four children were among those killed.
The flight recorders was quickly recovered from the pulverized plane.
The cause of the crash was not immediately determined, but Vasily Golubev, the governor of the Rostov region said: "By all appearances, the cause of the air crash was the strongly gusting wind, approaching a hurricane level."
Error from the pilot is also being determined as a possible cause of the crash.
According to Flightradar24, the plane circled for about two hours before making another attempt to land. It said a Russian Aeroflot plane scheduled to land around the same time made three landing attempts but then diverted to another airport.
According to its data, the Dubai plane began climbing again after a go-around when it suddenly started to fall with vertical speed of up to 6,400 meters per minutes (21,000 feet/min0.
The closed-circuit TV footage showed the plane going down in a steep angle and exploding in a huge fireball that lit up the night sky.
FlyDubai CEO Ghaith al-Ghaith saidin a statement"Our primary concern is for the families of the passengers and crew who were on board. Everyone at FlyDubai is in deep shock and our hearts go out to the families and friends of those involved," 






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