On the evening of November 17 a Boeing 737, en route flight Moscow - Kazan, crashed in the Kazan airport while landing. Fifty people were killed. According to the Russian side, among the dead there are no citizens of Azerbaijan.
Among the dead are 23-year-old Irek Minnikhanov - the son of the President of Tatarstan, the head of the Federal Security Service for Tatarstan, Antonov, and other known people. Among the victims there are two foreigners - citizens of Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
The aircraft of the Tatarstan Airlines was flying from Moscow to Kazan. According to preliminary data, a wing of the approaching airliner touched the ground. As it turned out, the crew was not prepared for landing and asked for permission to go to the second round. -02D-
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