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No panic onboard crashed Tu-154 plane - passenger

04 December 2010 20:57 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA.The passengers of the Tupolev-154 plane made an emergency landing in Moscow with all its three engines failed did not start panic during the accident, a passenger from the troubled jet said on Saturday, APA reports quoting RIA Novosti.
The Dagestan Airlines aircraft departed for the Russia’s North Caucasus city of Makhachkala from Moscow’s Vnukovo airport at 2.07 pm Moscow Time (11.07 GMT). Several minutes after the take-off all three engines of the plane had failed and the jet made an emergency landing at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport.
The plane was of the same model that crashed in April in Poland, killing Polish President Lech Kaczynski and over 90 high-profile country’s officials.
"It [plane] started shaking, but from the very beginning they [flight attendants] said it was turbulence...after half an hour we were told to fasten the seat belts while the plane was nose-diving and turning in attempt to land the runway. It was seen how the jet’s wing was touching the tips of the trees. Then I realized we were definitely near to fall," Nariman Dzhamautdinov said.
He said they had struggled very rough landing. "If the plane had moved another 15 meters ahead, we would have bumped into the fence and the passengers sitting in the front seats would have taken the strongest blow."
According to the transport Prosecutor’s Office, the jet was carrying 163 passengers, including seven children and nine crew members among the others.