Pilot “Dagestan Airlines” has received a suspended sentence for a hard landing – Russian newspaper

Pilot "Dagestan Airlines" has received a suspended sentence for a hard landing – Russian newspaper

Pilot “Dagestan Airlines” Zakarzhi Zakarzhaev received a three-year suspended sentence for an emergency landing of Tu-154 at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

Today, Domodedovo city court sentenced the commander of the aircraft to three years probation and released from punishment under the amnesty. Most likely, this will be the final verdict. With the protests so far none of the parties to the appeals court had not addressed and stated that he was going to do it. There are several reasons.

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Almost four years lasted proceedings, and now many of those who have been what is called, in fact, compared to yesterday imposed a sentence as a compromise between the letter of the law and certain subtleties involved with many aspects of the incident.

Let us recall that the very accident occurred in 2010. In December Tu-154 makes emergency landing in Moscow airport, barely having time to take off and climb. The problems with the engine crew reported immediately after takeoff. A half an hour after departure due to failure of the two engines of the three aircraft made a hard landing. In this case, the plane skidded off the runway, ran the hill and collapsed. On board were 163 passengers and nine crew members – two people died and about 80 were injured.

As soon as the bulk of the passengers were rescued, the pilot announced almost a hero. But very quickly praise communiques came to naught, and in relation to the pilot initiated a criminal case. It quickly became clear that, although almost all of the passengers on board survived, two victims were not just business-class passengers, and relatives of influential people in Dagestan. At least one mother was a senior judiciary of the country. Could these circumstances affect the initiation of the case, we can only guess. But for some Zakarzhaev remained a hero who saved in incredible conditions of more than 150 people, and for the other person, who, though heroic, but corrected his own mistake and negligence.

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At the very least, the investigation found that Zakarzhaev violated the requirements of the flight manual and the aircraft landed outside the runway on the ground, much flown runway. According to investigators, the pilot could and should land the plane so that no one was hurt at all. The failure of two engines, according to investigators, is not critical. The aircraft can sit with one motor. The main thing that the pilot had the experience and knowledge. Investigators believed that the pilot Dagestan are not enough, and that was a mistake.

As established by the investigation and trial, the immediate cause was a violation of Incidents aircraft commander Zakarzhaevym established requirements in “Sunset and landing with two non-performing engines “RLE Tu-154, which is confirmed by comprehensive flight and technical expertise. It is unlikely that the conclusions of the examination can be challenged, but the surviving passengers are still grateful to the pilot.

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