Brussels: The Cypriot pilot of the flydubai jet that crashed in southern Russia was going to quit the airline after recently accepting a job with Ryanair in Cyprus, a long-time friend said Saturday. The friend told The Associated Press that pilot The FlyDubai pilots chose to put their Boeing 737-800 into a holding pattern, circling … Read more
The Boeing 737-800 operated by FlyDubai was carrying 55 passengers and seven crew members. The airline confirmed that there were no survivors and said four children were among those killed. According to official sources, Mohan and Anju were from The friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he didn't want to be named discussing … Read more
The passengers aboard the ill-fated plane that was pulverized in a fiery pre-dawn crash at a southern Russian airport Saturday had no idea they were facing “imminent death.” “It was an uncontrollable fall,” veteran Russian pilot Sergei Kruglikov said CNN's Jon Jensen reports on the Flydubai CEO's video statement on the crash of flight FZ981 … Read more