Russian investigators are investigating the cause of an accident at Moscow Vnukovo airport on 13 February involving a Bombardier Canadair Special Edition (registered N168CK), the corporate derivative of the CRJ100 regional jet.
Two crew members and a third person on board were hospitalised after the accident, in which the aircraft overturned, losing its starboard wing before coming to rest inverted with its undercarriage still deployed.
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The Bombardier jet crashed taking off from Vnukovo and overturned |
According to Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee, the authority overseeing the investigation, the aircraft was departing from runway 06 in heavy snow showers bound for Berlin for a maintenance check. Russia's emergency situations ministry says that the aircraft suffered a sudden engine fire during take-off roll, adding: "The aircraft travelled beyond the limits of the runway, overturned and was destroyed."
Source: Flight International
