A total of 55 people remain in hospitals following an emergency landing of a Dagestan-bound plane at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, according to a statement published on the Russian Health Ministry's website.
All three engines of the Dagestan Airlines' Tupolev-154 plane successively failed several minutes after it took off from Moscow's Vnukovo Airport for Dagestan's capital, Makhachkala, on Saturday afternoon. Two people were killed and about 80 were injured during the emergency landing as the plane skidded off the runway and broke into pieces.
Dagestani president's brother Gadzhimurad Magomedov, who was on board the plane and received serious injuries as a result of the accident, died in hospital late on Saturday, according to a source in the Dagestani government.
Earlier, 50 people were reported to have been admitted to hospitals following the accident.
The Dagestani authorities have pledged to pay 250,000 rubles (about $8,300) to the relatives of the victims. Those seriously injured in the accident will be paid 100,000 rubles (about $3,300), moderately injured people will get 50,000 rubles (about $1,600), and 30,000 rubles (about $1,000) will be allocated to those with minor injuries.
A reserve plane with passengers of the troubled aircraft is expected to leave Moscow at 08:00am Moscow time (05:00 GMT) on Sunday. The plane was initially supposed to take off for Dagestan late on Saturday, but the flight was suspected to give investigators enough time to question the passengers.
MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti)
