MOSCOW (Reuters) – Staff at a Moscow airport scrambled fire crews one minute after a malfunctioning passenger jet crash-landed on Sunday, raising questions among some senior Russian aviation industry figures about whether the staff acted quickly enough. FILE PHOTO – Members of emergency services and investigators work at the scene of an incident involving an Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger plane at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, Russia May 6, 2019. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva The speed of the response to the emergency, in which 41 people were killed in an intense blaze, has come into focus because the aircraft, which had signaled technical problems prior to landing, stood on the runway for just under two minutes before the first fire truck started tackling the flames. Alexander Zhuravkov, head of the committee for emergency situations of Russian airport industry association “Aeroport”, said fire crews arrived within the maximum time after the alert was raised, as set out in domestic regulations and international standards. “The question, though, is why the alert was raised after the landing, and not before, in a timely fashion, since there was an expected landing underway of an aircraft with an emergency situation on board,” Zhuravkov told Reuters. According to a… Read full this story
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