Probe into Tu-154 crash to be resumed in Domodedovo airport.

MOSCOW, December 6 (Itar-Tass) -- The probe into the crash landing of
a Tu-154 airplane in Moscow's Domodedovo airport will be resumed on the
accident scene on Monday.
The scene is still cordoned off. The crashed plane will be removed
only after investigators record the whereabouts of all pieces of the
aircraft for further study. The plane's third flight recorder has been
found on the scene. The other two recorders have been handed over to the
Interstate Aviation Committee for decoding.
Investigators have interrogated 100 people, including crew members,
air traffic controllers, passengers and experts. So far, investigators
have three basic versions of the accident, i.e. erroneous actions by the
plane's pilots, poor condition of the aircraft before the flight, and a
malfunction after it took off.
On Sunday, investigators received relevant technical documents from
the Tu-154 owner, the Dagestan Airlines Co, and from the Vnukovo
aircraft-repairing plant, which provided regular maintenance to the plane
last year. Besides, fuel samples will be taken from another plane, fueled
from the same source as the ill-fated Tu-154. That plane successfully
reached the destination point, Surgut.
Investigators are waiting for an expert report. A source in the
Interstate Aviation Committee said on Sunday after the flight recorders
had been decoded that the plane's two engines failed during the eighth
minute of the flight as a result of a fuel feed system malfunction. When
the plane reached an altitude of 6,500 meters fuel feed problems were
registered at all the three engines. After the first and the third engines
died at an altitude of nine kilometers the pilots decided to make an
emergency landing. But shortly before landing one of the engines recovered.
The Tu-154 plane with 160 passengers and nine crew members on board
took off from Moscow's Vnukovo airport for the North Caucasian city of
Makhachkala but two engines ran out of order shortly after. The third
engine came to a halt later on. The jetliner made a crash landing in
Domodedovo. It sped through the runway and hit a hill. The fuselage broke
into several pieces, but there was neither fire nor explosion. Two
passengers died and 82 were hospitalised. On Sunday, passengers, who had
not been hurt in the accident, were taken to Makhachkala by another plane,
and still another plane took the bodies of those dead.

.Putin, United Russia to outline development strategies for Russia's
Far East.

KHABAROVSK, December 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin will visit the Khabarovsk territory on Monday to take part in a
plenary meeting of United Russia regional organizations in the Far Eastern
Federal District.
The meeting will focus on the Far Eastern socioeconomic development
strategy for the period until 2020, and a program for 2010-2012.
The premier will dwell on prospects and fundamental areas of the Far
Eastern development and party tasks in the formation of regional
components of the national long-term development plans, the government's
press service said.
Putin will study best development projects in the Far Eastern Federal
District and answer questions of plenary meeting delegates.
These projects have been chosen in five workshops. Summing up the
results, Boris Gryzlov, the United Russia leader and speaker of the State
Duma lower parliament house, stressed that the ruling party must actively
participate in implementing the tasks set in the Russian president's
state-of-the-nation address. "The implementation of the president's
initiatives in the social and economic spheres urges a broader project
approach," he noted and stressed that the federal district's top priority
projects should focus on the development of hi-tech industries, the energy
sector and transport infrastructure.
The United Russia attaches great significance to the forthcoming Far
Eastern Federal District conference. Speaking with journalists, one of the
party leaders, Sergei Neverov, recalled Putin's trip around the Far East
this summer. In his words, the prime minister got a first-hand knowledge
of the situation in the Far East and "projects to be implemented here."
Neverov said he was sure the party's projects will help make Russia's Far
East "a centre of cooperation" with Asia-Pacific countries. According to
another party leader, Andrei Vorobyev, the Far East, which is currently
seeing an outflow of population, should become attractive and comfortable
for living. It is Russia's "outpost in Asia," he cited the prime minister.
About 500 delegates and guests will take part in the conference, among
them heads of federal and regional agencies, United Russia leaders,
representatives of the public, researchers, businessmen, members of youth
organizations and journalists.
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