Bad brakes blamed in Moscow crash landing
- Published: 30 Dec 2012 at 14.46
- Online news: World
Russian investigators on Sunday blamed a defective brake system for a Moscow airport crash that killed five crew members when a liner skidded off the runway and smashed into a highway.
A truck removes the cabin of the Tu-204 jet from its crash site near Vnukovo airport outside Moscow on December 29, 2012. Russian investigators on Sunday blamed a defective brake system for the Moscow airport crash that killed five crew members when the liner careened off the runway and smashed into a highway.
Rescue workers recovered the flight recorders from the four-year-old Tu-204 of tycoon Alexander Lebedev's Red Wings airlines late Saturday as Russia began mourning its latest post-Soviet crash fatalities.
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