On Sunday afternoon, An-148 "Saratov Airlines" crashed, flying Domodedovo-Orsk. Onboard there were 65 passengers and 6 crew members. Killed all.

The plane disappeared from the radar 10 minutes after the departure from Domodedovo airport. The wreckage of the plane was found near the village of Stepanovskoye, Ramensky District. The plane was heading to Orsk International Airport Orsk. A lot of correspondence was found on the site, which gave rise to rumors of a collision with a postal helicopter, but a representative of the Post of Russia stated that a bag with 20 kilograms of letters.

The witnesses of the accident say that the plane was already burning before the fall, first there was a strong clap, the plane began to fall apart in the air, then from the place of the fall a mushroom of fire. Fragments of the aircraft scattered over a large territory. At the site of its fall, a large funnel.

Now there is a search for black boxes. It is known that before the fall, there were no signals about a malfunction from the crew, this indicates that the situation developed rapidly. The commander of the crashed An-148 Valery Gubanov was an experienced pilot. Its total flying time was 5 thousand. hours, and on the plane of this type - 2,800. hours.

The Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov, the governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyev, the head of the Investigation Committee Alexander Bastrykin. The search operation involves a group of rescuers, a detachment of "Centrospas" and the center "Leader". In the Ramenskoye region, seven brigades of the Center for Disaster Medicine. Many bodies and fragments of bodies. The search and rescue operation will be conducted around the clock.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the families and friends of the deceased and instructed the government to investigate the An-148 plane crash.

The shipwrecked was not old, he made the first voyage in 2010. While several possible causes of the accident are considered: technical malfunction, human factor and weather conditions. According to the weather forecasters, visibility at the site of the emergency was 1500 - 2000 meters, wind 5 m / s. In cloudy conditions, such phenomena as strong blubber, electrification and icing in the clouds are simply unlikely.

The investigative group includes investigators and criminologists of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, criminologists of the Criminalistics Department of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, who have experience in investigating air crashes.

The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation initiated a criminal investigation into the crash of an airplane on the grounds of a crime provided for. 3 items. 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Violation of safety rules for the movement and operation of air transport, which caused by accident the death of two or more persons") ". The head of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin instructed to sue a criminal case on the fact of the crash in the central apparatus of the UK.