Russian Court Sentences Pilot Of Fatal Aeroflot Crash To Penal Colony

Aeroflot Superjet 100

An Aeroflot Superjet 100—but not the airplane involved in the crash.

Credit: Mariusz Burcz / Alamy Stock Photo
A Russian court has sentenced the captain of Aeroflot Flight 1492—a Superjet 100 that crashed at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport on May 5, 2019—to six years in a penal colony. One crew member and 40 of the 73 passengers were killed in the incident. Ten survivors received various physical injuries. The...

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