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Russia: Tu-134 aircraft crash in Karelia: pilot could have been drunk

Moscow, Russia - Reported by the investigating committee

Spokesman for the Russian commission which investigated the plane accident that occurred in Russia last June 21 (seeAVIONEWS), in which 47 people were killed, yesterday announced to the local broadcasters that at the time of the emergency landing, the pilot of the Tu-134 could have been "Under conditions of alcohol intoxication". According to the accident's reconstruction, that morning the pilot...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1133931
Rome, Italy, 09/19/2011 12:26
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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