Good morning and welcome to bbc news. At least 15 people have died, after a passenger plane crashed in kazakhstan. The bek air flight had just taken off from the countrys biggest city, almaty, and was travelling to the capital, nur sultan, when it crashed into a building. 60 others were injured in the crash. 98 people were onboard the flight, including five crew. With me is the independents travel editor, simon calder. Simon, first off, reaction from the Aviation Industry to this crash . Great sadness at another tragedy. This is the third jet Passenger Airline to crush this year after very sadly, the loss of the boeing 737 max in which 157 people died and the superjet 737 max in which 157 people died and the super jet which 737 max in which 157 people died and the superjet which crashed at moscow in may with the loss of 41 lives. Of course, the Aviation Community wants to know what has gone wrong and the investigators will already be at the scene of the accident which took place at kaz
That means were bringing you some of the biggest stories covered right here over the past 7 days welcome to the program happily some good news to start you off with that 2 russian pilots centered aviation history on thursday morning after pulling off whats been described as a miraculous Emergency Landing that. Flight suffered twin engine failure after striking a flock of birds while taking off from moscow airport but against the odds they were able to bring it down safely in a nearby field saving the lives of everyone on board this was the scene as people evacuated the plane. If i think about. Was. The pilots of flight you 6178 had just moments to react to the bird strike and avert impending disaster they decided to land the plane on its belly in a cornfield without deploying the landing gear all being able to dump the fuel on board. This video was taken from inside the aircraft as it accelerated along the runway the singles that were sucked into the engines could be seen either so fle
Being described as proof. 247 news live from moscow this is r. T. International from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome our top story to russian pilots being hailed as heroes after they had potential disaster on thursday morning their plane lost the use of both engines after striking a flock of birds while taking off from moscow as you called ski International Airport forcing them to make an Emergency Landing all 226 passengers 7 crew members as well on board the crimea and Airlines Flight survived. Ah. Well it all happened so quickly about the pilots werent able to return to the report as they barely got are born reaching an altitude of roughly 260 meters but they acted decisively opting to land the plane on its belly in a cornfield with the wheels up just over a kilometer from the runway and without having time to empty the fuel tanks the pilot to income on 41 year old yusupov had previously been a lawyer before training as a pilot hed been flying with your all earli
Started, lets get your latest News Headlines ray. News headlines with ray. Cheers. Nana 3 01. Our top stories this hour. Power cuts have left thousands without electricity across ireland as storm kathleen brings strong winds, dozens of flights have also been cancelled due to gusts of up to 70mph in Northern Ireland and the west of britain, around 70 flights have been called off so far. A yellow weather warning for wind is in effect until 10 00 tonight and covers cornwall, much of wales, parts of lancashire, cumbria up into Central Scotland and Northern Ireland. Two hour wind swept Northern Ireland reporter Dougie Beattie is in county down. It hit cork , waterford and it hit cork, waterford and kerry. There it has done substructure damage and power outages. The storm has now basically surrounded the coastal areas of the island of ireland. It is now making its way towards galway , mayo and donegal and it galway, mayo and donegal and it has come up the irish sea into the east coast here a
Started, lets get your latest News Headlines ray. News headlines with ray. Cheers. Nana 3 01. Our top stories this hour. Power cuts have left thousands without electricity across ireland as storm kathleen brings strong winds, dozens of flights have also been cancelled due to gusts of up to 70mph in Northern Ireland and the west of britain, around 70 flights have been called off so far. A yellow weather warning for wind is in effect until 10 00 tonight and covers cornwall, much of wales, parts of lancashire, cumbria up into Central Scotland and Northern Ireland. Two hour wind swept Northern Ireland reporter Dougie Beattie is in county down. It hit cork , waterford and it hit cork, waterford and kerry. There it has done substructure damage and power outages. The storm has now basically surrounded the coastal areas of the island of ireland. It is now making its way towards galway , mayo and donegal and it galway, mayo and donegal and it has come up the irish sea into the east coast here a