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Before FlyDubai crash, Rostov-on-Don was known for football and Nobel Prize winners
FlyDubai’s fatal crash at Rostov-on-Don airport has thrust the relatively quiet Southern Russian city into the global spotlight Investigators, including UAE aviation officials, are travelling to the city in an effort to determine why flight FZ981 nosedived into the runway at the airport, killing all 62 people aboard.Before the crash, global...
Black boxes from plane crash site are badly damaged: Russia
Aviation experts on Sunday began examining the black boxes from the FlyDubai flight that crashed amid high winds at an airport in southern Russia but said the cockpit voice and data recorders were badly damaged.FlyDubai’s Boeing 737-800 from Dubai nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball before dawn Saturday after trying to land for a...
Ukraine pilot verdict in two days
Nadiya Savchenko ruling set to drive fresh wedge between Russia and Ukraine …read more Source: Gulf...
Ukraine pilot verdict set to drive fresh wedge between Russia and Ukraine
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko awaits the verdict in her controversial trial over the murder of two Russian journalists with few doubting she will be found guilty in a ruling that will fuel the feud between Kiev and Moscow …read more Source: The Daily...
All we know about the FlyDubai crash so far
MOSCOW // Winds were gusting before dawn Saturday over the airport in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don when a plane carrying 62 people from Dubai, a favourite Russian holiday destination, decided to abort its landing.The timing was tricky. Two planes had landed just a few minutes before the FlyDubai plane aimed to touch down. On the...
Why Democratic Party Foreign Policy Fails and Will Continue to Fail
By Richard Falk For six years (2008-2014) I acted as UN Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine, and found myself routinely and personally attacked by the top UN diplomats representing the U.S. Government. Of course, I knew that America was in Israel’s corner no matter what the issue happened to be, whether complying with a near unanimous...
Risk of nuclear war in Europe growing warns Russian ex-minister
The East-West standoff over the Ukraine crisis has brought the threat of nuclear war in Europe closer than at any time since the 1980s, a former Russian foreign minister warned Saturday …read more Source: The Daily...
62 killed as flydubai jet crashes in southern Russia
ROSTOV-ON-DON, RUSSIA — A flydubai passenger jet crashed in southern Russia early Saturday, killing all 62 people on board as it tried to land in bad weather in the city of Rostov-on-Don, officials said. The plane, which came from Dubai, was making its second attempt to land when it missed the runway, erupting in a huge fireball as it crashed,...
Russian aviation disasters over the past decade
MOSCOW // A look at notable disasters over the past decade involving crashes involving Russian carriers or foreign planes landing in Russia:March 19, 2016: A Boeing 737-800 flown by FlyDubai crashes while landing at Rostov-on-Don, killing all 62 aboard.October 31, 2015: An on-board bomb destroys a Metrojet airliner soon after taking off from...
Russia continues to oppress Crimea’s Tatars
With the exception of Turkey, the Muslim world has been virtually silent on the Tatars’ situation. …read more Source: AL...
