Deicing failure blamed for UTair ATR 72-200 fatal crash in Tyumen

Polina Montag-Girmes July 17, 2013
Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) has blamed deicing procedures for a UTair ATR 72-200 crash in Tyumen in April 2012. According to an IAC statement, deicing procedures were rejected before the flight. The committee concluded there were snow and ice sediments on the aircraft surface, which...
Polina Montag-Girmes

Polina joined the Air Transport World team in 2011, covering Russian and the Commonwealth of Independent States. She studied journalism at Moscow State University and worked as a journalist for Russian business and airline publications since 2000.

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