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Minsk: S-Air Flight Goes Down in Storm; kills at least 5


Pictured: A S-Air British Aerospace BAe-125-700B (only because we couldn’t find the original
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Contact photographer Gleb Osokin


actual plane involved
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Contact photographer LAlex

What: S-Air Hawker-125 Executive Jet en route from Vnukovo airport in Moscow to the Minsk international airport.
Where: Minsk
When: October 26, 2009
Who: Two passengers and three crew
Why: The Russian business jet crashed Monday night into a swampy area near Minsk while on approach to the airport. 5 are confirmed dead, including CEO of the S-Air airline, Marat Romashkin. A sixth passenger was supposed to aboard but missed the flight.

The plane failed it’s first landing and disappeared off radar. The wreckage was 2.5 miles from the airport.

The S-Air fleet includes Yak-42D, Tu-134, Yak-40, Hawker-125-700B and Hawker-125-800B planes.

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