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Crashed aircraft in Vnukovo airport, frame from the Rossiya channel
Swiss Business Jet Crashes in Moscow, None Dead Created: 14.02.2007 11:45 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:28 MSK
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A small business jet
without passengers crashed at a Moscow airport on Tuesday while taking
off for Berlin in a snow storm, Reuters news agency reported.
One
of the three crew members on board was injured as the Challenger 850
jet crashed at 4 p.m. Moscow time, said a spokeswoman for Vnukovo
airport in southwest Moscow.
“On take-off there was a flare-up in the area of the engine. The aircraft fell onto the runway and broke up,” said the official.
Earlier,
the Emergencies Ministry said the plane was an Airbus A310 trying to
land at the airport. It subsequently confirmed a small business jet had
instead crashed but did not explain the discrepancy.
Investigators
were working at the crash site at Vnukovo airport which was temporarily
closed to traffic and planes diverted to other Moscow airports as the
wreckage was removed.
According to the spokesman a Challenger
850 operated by a Swiss company caught fire on take-off with three crew
members and no passengers on board. One crew member was injured but all
three have been hospitalized.
Geneva-based TAG-Aviation refuted
claims by the airport spokeswoman that it owned the jet, made by
Canada’s Bombardier. A marketing manager for the company said it had
previously managed the aircraft which was now in the hands of another
firm.