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SERIOUS DAMAGE Initial investigations suggest that the airliner had its front carriage broken during the landing and the hull broke into pieces as a result, Russia's civil aviation authority said. Due to the unfavorable weather conditions and low clouds over the Domodedovo airport, the pilots were unable to see the runway lights, Rosaviatsia's head Alexander Neradko told reporters. When the plane came out of the clouds, there was almost no time left for landing, he said. Missing the runway, the plane landed at the safety zone along the runway and then crossed the runway, skidding to the left side, Neradko said. "At a distance of about 100 meters to a concrete fence, the plane encountered a natural obstacle -- a small hill. In a collision with it, the aircraft broke up into three parts," he was quoted as saying by the state-run Itar-Tass news agency. A survivor of the accident, who was still at the Domodedovo airport two hours after the accident, showed to a Xinhua reporter his trousers, which had been frayed due to the severe bumping during the landing. "It was very horrible," the survivor said. Pictures taken by some passengers with their mobile phones showed the front of the hull was torn off, and the wings and the tail section were also damaged. |
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