Dagestan president's brother dies after Tu-154 accident.

MOSCOW, December 5 (Itar-Tass) -- The Dagestani president's brother
Gadzhimurad Magomedov, who was injured in the Tu-154 emergency landing
accident, has died, a Moscow medical source told Itar-Tass.
The source did not say whether Magomedov died in hospital or on the
way to a clinic. However, he is the second victim killed by the accident.
Earlier, an airport source told Itar-Tass that constitutional court
judge Gadis Gadzhiyev's mother died in the accident.


.Tu-154 flight recorders decoding begins overnight.
(updates)

MOSCOW, December 4 (Itar-Tass) -- The study of the flight recorders
("black boxes") from the Tu-154 airliner that made an emergency landing at
Domodedovo will start already on the night to Sunday, Russian Deputy
Transport Minister Valery Okulov told Itar-Tass.
"The voice and data recorders are retrieved. Their decoding will begin
this night," he said, noting that the first information from the boxes
would be received no earlier than in 24 hours.
According to the official information, the Dagestan Airlines Tu-154
accident in Moscow's Domodedovo killed two people and 83 people from the
airliner were taken to hospital. Aboard the plane were 169 people,
including nine crewmembers. The captain with injuries was also taken to
hospital.
The airliner took off from Vnukovo airport on a Moscow-Makhachkala
flight, but in 30 minutes two of its engines malfunctioned and then the
third failed. The liner made an emergency landing at Domodedovo, came off
the runway and ran into a ground hill. The fuselage broke into parts, but
there was no fire and no explosion.
The Russian Aviation Agency (Rosaviation) later said that not only the
plane engines, but also its generators and navigation system had failed.
One of the first versions of the causes supposed by experts was that
the plane had bad fuel. However, Vnukovo airport press secretary Yelena
Krylova noted the Tu-154 before the takeoff had undergone appropriate
control in full. The conducted test of the fuel showed it conformed to the
state standards.
The liner landed under bad weather conditions -- poor visibility and
low clouds, Rosaviation head Alexander Neradko told reporters.
The crew did not see the runway lights in time. When the plane came
out of clouds, little time was left for landing. Controllers all the time
guided it, but the liner landed off the runway. The plane landed on a side
line, then crossed the runway, ran onto the left side line and continued
moving there. The crew prepared the plane for landing - it was with the
gears and flaps down, and in such landing position, the plane continued
moving on the side way.
About a hundred metres away from the concrete fence of the airfield,
the liner ran into a hill. In the collision the plane broke into three
large parts, Neradko said.
An Interstate Aviation Committee source told Itar-Tass a commission
was formed to investigate the accident and it began to work.
The Investigation Committee's Moscow inter-regional transport
investigation department has opened a criminal case over the Domodedovo
accident on charges of violation of the air transport safety regulations
(Article 263, Part Three), the committee's spokesman Vladimir Markin told
Itar-Tass.
Health and Social Development Minister Tatiana Golikova and Transport
Minister Igor Levitin reported to President Dmitry Medvedev about the work
to provide aid and investigate the accident causes.
The airliner accident in Domodedovo killed a Dagestani constitutional
court judge's mother and the Dagestani president's brother.
Among the people aboard the Tu-154, which was on a flight to
Makhachkala and made an emergency landing at Domodedovo, was
constitutional court judge Gadis Gadzhiyev's mother. She died. The
Dagestani president's brother who was also aboard the plane was injured.
He was hospitalised, a Domodedovo airport source told Itar-Tass. Later it
was reported that the president's brother had died.
Payment of compensations to the injured people and relatives of the
dead will begin soon, Deputy Transport Minister Valery Okulov said.
There is an agreement that insurance companies will promptly pay part
of the compensations and then the rest after all the insurance procedures
are passed, he added.
The passengers who did not need medical care will fly out for
Makhachkala on Sunday morning, a Transport Ministry source said. A reserve
plane of Dagestan Airlines has already arrived in Moscow.
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