The Ukrainian government plans to take measures to tighten aviation safety, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.
“I have to mention a sad event – the crash of an An-24 plane at
Donetsk Airport. Investigators have yet to determine the causes of the
accident, but it’s clear for us that we need to make significant efforts
in this sphere to ensure that air transportation is safe,” he wrote on
his page on Facebook, while communicating with users on Friday.
Azarov noted that the lessons of this tragedy were obvious and that the necessary conclusions would be drawn.
As reported, the An-24 aircraft of South Airlines on flight from
Odesa to Donetsk made an emergency landing at Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev
International Airport at 1824 on February 13. During the landing the
aircraft hit a weather tower, the right wing grazed the ground, and then
it overturned and its fuselage broke.
A total of 52 people were on board the aircraft, including eight
crewmembers. Five people were killed, and nine were hospitalized.
It was a charter flight, and all the passengers were football fans
heading for Donetsk to watch Shakhtar Donetsk play Borussia Dortmund in
the Champions League round of 16.
