One person was killed and at least ten others wounded Saturday, 1 January after the fire and the explosion of an airplane on the tarmac of an airport in northern Russia. "According to our information, one person died and ten were injured. Six of them were hospitalized for burns in a service," said Vadim Russian agencies Grebennikov, a spokesman for the Ministry of Emergencies.The Russian Ministry of Health for its part reported a score of wounded, most of them having been poisoned by breathing the fumes from the fire. The Tupolev-154, with 116 passengers and eight crew members on board, started to burn while driving on the runway of the airport of Surgut (north-east of the Urals), just before s' fly to Moscow, said the inquiry committee of Russian prosecutors.
"The emergency services were unable to extinguish the fire and there was an explosion. The passengers and crew were evacuated before the explosion," the inquiry committee. ACCIDENTS RÉCURRENTSUn Russian singer Na-Na, Sergei Grigorev, which was on the plane, told the Russian agency Itar-Tass that the aircraft had burned completely in 10 or 15 minutes.
"There were sparks everywhere, then a thick black smoke, people on the plane were panicked," he recounted, "My life flashed before my eyes, I still can not achieve this happened ". "Everyone managed to escape through the emergency exit on the wing of the plane," recounted the singer. Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin told the Interfax news agency that investigators had not yet established the cause of the accident.
"Scholars do not know what could cause the fire (...) for now, all avenues are being explored," he said. The Tu-154, a trijet Soviet-designed product to a thousand copies, has seen many accidents over the last fifteen years. On 10 April 2010, the Head of State Lech Kaczynski Polish and dozens of senior officials of the country were killed in the crash of the aircraft for the Polish Presidency near Smolensk in western Russia, which total of 96 fatalities.
On 5 December, a Tu-154 left the runway after landing in Moscow, killing two and wounding dozens. At 9000 meters altitude, the aircraft had experienced a failure of two of its engines, generator and its navigational instruments.
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