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   Experts: Crew of Crashed Russian Airliner Lost Control After a Steep Climb

   A preliminary investigation has found that Sunday`s passenger airliner
   crash in the central Russian region of Tatarstan, which killed all 50
   people aboard, happened after the crew, in a second attempt to land,
   lost control of the plane after putting it into a steep climb.
   The Interstate Aviation Committee, the Moscow-based body that oversees
   civil aviation in most of the former Soviet states, said Tuesday that
   after failing to properly execute a "standard approach" to the airport
   in the city of Kazan, the plane`s crew revved up the Boeing 737`s
   engines to near takeoff speed and sharply raised its nose, after which
   the aircraft lost speed and went into a nosedive.
   Video shown Monday by Russian television stations showed the plane
   plunging to the ground in a near-vertical descent and then exploding.
   The committee said its preliminary conclusions were based on
   information retrieved from one of the plane`s onboard data recorders.
   Among the 50 people killed in the air crash were the elder son of
   Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and the head of Tatarstan`s
   branch of the Federal Security Service , Russia`s principal security
   agency.
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