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Russian Flight Ditches on River Ob, 7 lost, 22 hospitalized


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What: Angara Airlines Antonov 24RV en route from Tomsk-Bogashevo Airport to Surgut Airport, Russia
Where: near Strezhevoy, Russia
When: July 11, 2011, 11:55
Who: 4 crew, 33 passengers, 6 fatalities
Why: The plane took off from Tomsk at 10:10, and developed an engine fire around 11:48. The pilot attempted to divert to divert to Nizhnevartovsk Airport and had to make an emergency landing, crashing into the Ob river. The tail and port engine detached on impact.

Twenty passengers were hospitalized, and seven passengers died in the crash.

Film of the crash


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