Friday, July 19 2019 12:00

ArmInfo. Two citizens who suffered during the evacuation of passengers on the flight  Moscow-Yerevan, continue to remain in the hospital in the Moscow  Khimki. This is stated in the statement of the Armenian Embassy in  the Russian Federation. According to the message of the Armenian  Embassy, one of the citizens had an exacerbation of diabetes, the  other had multiple bruises.  The embassy also informed that the  passengers were sent to Yerevan by another flight, however, 19  citizens refused to fly. 

On July 19, it became known that the passengers of the Moscow-Yerevan  flight of the Nordwind airline to Sheremetyevo were evacuated from  the aircraft. During the evacuation, eight people were injured, most  had abrasions and bruises. Two of them were hospitalized.

Sheremetyevo reported that the flight N4477 began to depart at around  01:00am, but during the run-up runway smoke inside the cabin  appeared. The aircraft commander reported to the ground services  about the emergency situation and decided to abort the takeoff. Fire  on board was prevented, Sheremetyevo reports.  In total, as reported,  there were 173 passengers and six crew members on board.  In turn,  the State Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that when taxiing  to the runway, the crew of the aircraft gave a signal of smoke in the  cockpit. The liner stopped taking off, the passengers were evacuated  by inflatable ramps and taken to the airport. Representatives of the  emergency services saw no signs of burning or smoke in the aircraft.  A total of 187 people were aboard the aircraft, the ministry said.   The Nordwind company said that the crew of the aircraft evacuated  passengers because of the odor on board the aircraft. The crew  stopped taking off and after the release of the runway and switching  off the engines, organized the evacuation of passengers along the  inflatable ramps.

The causes of the incident are investigated by the Special Commission  of the Federal Air Transport Agency, the Investigation Committee and  the Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office. The  Rosaviation called the decision of the commander of the aircraft to  stop the flight justified. Rostransnadzor will conduct an unscheduled  inspection of Nordwind. The TASS source in the aviation services  reported that the board had undergone all the preflight procedures  and there were no questions to its technical condition