breaking news here on out international big story today a passenger plane with seventy one on board has crashed shortly after it took off from a moscow airport it's afternoon there are no survivors the authorities are investigating possible channels to establish exactly what went about. russia's emergency services say they've recovered one of the plane's black boxes now in the last hour or so as the search continues around the clock. to get out and in his cabin i went down hawkins with the industry here rolling coverage of the tragedy this afternoon continues we get more details in and people

are trying to put the pieces together basically the story is a plane with sixty five passengers on board including three children and six crew has crashed just outside moscow this afternoon just minutes after taking off the hear the first pictures that came through from that crash site you can see the yellow livery of the surat off airlines there on part of the plane that video was apparently shot by a local than it than the village where the plane came down is located about sixty kilometers southeast of moscow and it was heading southeast at the time towards the urals area in the city of all risk emergency services reportedly are struggling to reach the area they have got there now but it's been a real slog because of the heavy snowfall in that area and they've many only been able to get there by foot we hear hundred fifty rescuers have been dispatched there we hear is to still to be confirmed officially only two bodies have been found but there are reports of fifty bodies have been found already where the conditions are a big problem but they are being investigated as well by the authorities as to may

be the cause here could it have been the weather could have been a de icing problem an engine problem a technical problem. human error everything's being looked into at the moment everything's on the table officials say you can see on this map per look at the trajectory of the flight it took off from domodedovo airport one of three big airports serving moscow in the moscow county and then it diverted east now just four minutes after it took off the plane then simply disappeared from the radar took off her pass to local time at seven o'clock and even though she get a handle on it as mentioned the plane was an antonov one four eight owned by surat off airlines it took its maiden flight back in twenty ten so a pretty new plane this specific model of playing is a regional hopper if you like you can reach speeds of where eight hundred twenty kilometers an hour capable it smacks of carrying up to eighty passengers on board thankfully not totally full today but still a huge tragedy nonetheless artie's don't you all can joins me live with the details

done i think there's no hope because still the thought is with the family friends those poor people on the plane it's been confirmed the no one has survived that crash you're right you're the russian transport ministry of emergency services they have confirmed they have found no survivors the recovery phase is now beginning initially were found those two bodies at the crash site more and more bodies are being fifty big. fifty file now they are also saying fortunately that the bodies as gruesome as this is they're in such a condition will need genetic experts to come out of there to fire them showing you know just how how much of an impact possibly far on the. early reports you get across is three or four hours away early reports said that there was an explosion maybe in the sky but they were getting conflicting reports as you always get these kind of details that the big explosion in fact it didn't happen until it hit the ground top's of a massive explosion and a mushroom cloud because it was dates evening now it's night but this happened in the daylight of course because the fact it's night now and this is an all in

a snowy field how much snow we had in the last week i've been away it has come back but it's been even monumental by. moscow standards isn't it well conditions on the ground been have been very tough and perhaps it's it's in a way lucky the plane crash so close to moscow enabling rescuers to get there relatively quickly although it's going to stand you know from our correspondent in that field absolutely deep snow they've got to be specialized equipment to get even close to the crash site to begin looking for those black boxes one black box of course found looking for the other the other ones are as well as you speak much better russian the me are do we know yet if it's the voice data recorder the thing listens to the pilots or whether it's the text box that monitors the technicals a far as we're aware is one of the tech boxes of course there are two books in total plus the separate cockpit recorder as well so three boxes in total to find here one of them has been found no word on its condition of course it might be damaged it might work to extract that data and get it out in

a couple of hours for it is to work there and of course to work at the size of the debris field as well if it's a big debris field that would indicate would it that the plane broke up although it wasn't that high six thousand five hundred feet or so in the initial climb there or if it impacted it in one piece then that debris field would be small that's another thing that the authorities very quickly going to be looking at president putin has already given his condolences he's canceled a trip to sochi over this monday tomorrow as an official day of mourning here in moscow in russia over over all this now earlier on we very quickly dispatched our senior correspondent regards to have done to that wintry scene here he is now you're about a mile from where that plane came down in that field as you so graphically described and it was cold there you had a war but lost three four kilometers to get to where you are and that is as far as the police and the authorities let you get tonight or any media here. but there's a layer of police multiple layers that have cordoned off the area the when we got

here they let us through the media's sleeve our cars by the first. by the first cordon and we walked we walked through we walked to this village but we're still a ways off of the checkpoint we were stopped on our colleagues told us that nobody was being led through or through all this is because the police said they don't want anyone distracting getting in the way of rescuers and investigators that are working here in fact there's a huge convoy of vacuum bulan says of the. prosecutor's office vehicles investigators as well as officials and fire services you know fire trucks have just left the scene about three dozen vehicles you know so i gather they've made them made some progress we heard earlier that one of the black boxes has been been recovered popped the second one as well they recovered fifty fifty of the bodies which just moved from them seventy one victims of this tragedy sixty five

passengers all of them russians all of them from the orem border. region where this jet was headed out of them from there no survivors of course you talked about the physics of it you know a jet traveling at hundreds of kilometers a and now a crashing almost plummeting into this into this field well as survivors would have been highly unlikely but the weather he's complicating the rescue effort the recovery effort because the field that crashed in a kilometer away from us. it's very deep the snow there is very deep obviously nobody has been clearing it before the crash and the edis complicating their recovery efforts we've heard from the locals as well we've talked to a number of people there shying away from the press now obviously but here's what

they told us of this thunderclap but they heard when the jet crashed. my friends say the ban was a law. when days all my shafted. killingly had as much in the t.v. and the kind of band everyone had then. yes i heard a loud cry i was line in the hole badly and my cats hit it was a really long because of you i would see it sounded like an explosion or a house bounced. more than they say there are more than one hundred rescue as in this field right now as well as dozens of trucks and ambulances very quick to clear away the daybreak to get it out to get to the bodies themselves they've been thrown around in the big you know big radius the crash site itself from what the rescuers have told us and officially is is pretty large and there

isn't much left of the jet itself but the operation is continuing we've heard of course various various rumors reports as to the cause as the central prosecutor's office says it is going to investigate everything everything that could have contributed to this crash technical difficulties human error the weather absolutely every fact of the could have led to this tragedy will be looked at were relieved to get on with it for now it's a grim task those search and rescue recovery guys are going to face doing the job of thinking of them as well tonight and really bad conditions thanks for now. it's just showing this reminded him of the main story the plane crash has killed seventy one people the soft new flight number was six w. seven o three it was a flight that left the post to the soft moon from domodedovo airport surat surveillance flight the original flight heading towards the city of all risk of the

ca's extern border in russia now of course thoughts foremost with the family the friends loved ones of the people who perished on the plane the crew and the passengers they're going through hell at the moment the coach numbers that that every airport where the took off several hours ago. it's really grim scene there of course we saw one guy actually howling in sorrow earlier on as he learned the news similar scenes been happening as well obviously people going to the airport hoping against all hope that maybe just someone's avoid this or they'll find some people to perish but it doesn't look like that's the case what's happening though that domodedovo airport that major airport just flew in that was solved last night but. a scene of a lot of grief tonight isn't it. well it is of course a very difficult moment for for everyone here in the country as more i just mentioned to all of the passengers onboard of the plane were reportedly from the or

involved creature and this perhaps explains why we do not see relatives here at the download them i did the airport now i should mention that dumb idea that our airport is the end the just as you said cabin and one of the three major airports moscow and at this very moment it is fully operational and there are no disruptions and the work of the airport now the aircraft that crashed several hours ago just outside the moscow region departed from this very airport and that aircraft was having a four or a school which is a city lying very close. of the russia kazakstan border in the region and now the investigation into the crash is of course under way in a special committee looking into different possible reasons behind the crash and of course difficult bad weather conditions are one of those possible reasons now what

we hear what we see here at the airport very well quite difficult to weather conditions now it has been snowing quite how throughout the day today which makes the visibility quite low of course but i have to mention that it is not very windy which is another quite an important aspect to end the war. and the way the flights are being carried out by the captains now overall in the past couple of weeks moscow has seen some really how the snow falls even last week was a record breaking snow fall that disrupted the work of the three major airports of the capital now we do know that dozens so flights at that time were canceled its and many flights where even many airplanes were even rerouted to there were two other airports because it was impossible to land in moscow now at this very moment the work of the airport is is normal it is

a normal mall which but i have to once again mentioned the weather conditions are quite complicated here at the dome i did the airport and now the plane that crashed was the ends enough and one forty eight which is that narrow body regional airliner it was carrying sixty five passengers and six crew members now according to the emergency services there is no chance. of on finding survivors now according to the latest reports that we've been gave a getting from the site of the crash one of the black box as been retrieved as well as the two bodies now we do know that. there were two children on board of the plane as well as one teenager aged five twelve and seventeen now the federal air transport agency said that air traffic control laws radio contact with the plane a few minutes after takeoff and it disappeared from radar screens

a few minutes when it was flying above a moscow region now we do expect to hear some news on the meeting of the crisis center that's going to take place here at the damage of the airport later this evening there's going to be another meeting to morrow in the morning so the investigation into the the crash of the airplane is underway yeah and i suppose if anyone does turn up adamo did a very poor family and friends this and provisions be made for people who want to find a war you know the councilors all the people to look after these folks. yes of course there are there is a special crisis center opened and fully operational here at the dumb idea the airport with all the information that is available at this moment as information keeps coming in and reports keep coming in and of course. the search and rescue operation is underway at the crash site we do know that several telephone lines are

open for everyone who wants to know more about the possible for you tell if he's an about more information on the in the crash on the incident for the airline as well as well to this regional airline all right thanks for the. brave the cold on this very grim thank you. you're just looking out of a not particularly sort of thing at the moment but there is a halt well that's been open boys who are out of lines tonight for the people who are grieving to try and get some help some information some support of this really bad time and let's get some perspective. next from retired american airlines caps and navy asian expert vice marc i would say great to see you the over the years of the last ten years i've been talking chief here it's always during of course sadly a tragedy here we go again this time new russian plane pretty new plane on russian soil and it doesn't look like anyone survived we hear that the first black box we

think the tech box not the voice recorder has been found that's of course crucial but investigators are going to want to find other books quickly to lot. or absolutely and you're right it's been a number of tragedies that we've talked through the years and certainly another one today and clearly my deepest sympathies for all of the family isn't everyone having to suffer through this again. what you know i'm not sure how much i can really add but the process that any investigation will go through is is going to be the same and you've heard some of it before. you know we're dealing with the weather we're dealing with the crew what was their training why. did they have enough rest before hand sadly in today's world we're going to be listening and looking for anything that could have been

a threat of terrorism on board the aircraft the weather conditions with the icing i mean there's a slew of factors that are going to go into this but the professionals that you have dealing with this now are going to be looking at it from many points of view. what's normal protocol for a pilot when you understand something is going wrong obviously you've got to move very quickly we don't know what's up with it we don't know if it's an icing problem an aircraft problem or an engine problem a collision we don't think it's a collision there's really speculation it could have been at some sort of postal helicopter or pretty much has been ruled out the thought is something technical maybe some sort of engine blowout the plane should be able to survive. an engine blow i suppose providing the found blades contained within it is feasible that it could have been contained and maybe that's what brought the plane down here well certainly that's a possibility and the voice recorder from the cockpit will also play

an enormous role in answering the questions you've just mentioned but you know pilots are trained to deal with crisis and every turn it off is predicated on some type of catastrophic event happening in this circle and it just taking a walk and it was moments from takeoff when this event occurred you know so what they're going to be looking for are certainly you know the weather for factor was the probably the icing was their situation shortly after takeoff of course that problem and perhaps compound it with a mechanical problem at the same time with me here down or he was looking at the sort of it was seeing a line earlier on the side of the down here in miami who actually came out with that line about maybe the pilot saying no they didn't need to deal yes that would be peculiar if they turned out a winter's day like this to say they didn't need to d.r.s. but my thought was maybe if it's

a regional plane it's not on the ground very long to they need to do that. well absolutely when you think about airflow over a wing you know you don't need very much ice you don't need for a much snow to create a distortion in the amount of lift and if you have a difference in a lift on one wing or another when you're going to get a symmetrical lift but if you contact him at with perhaps some type of an engine problem or other problem which may have distracted the pilots then you get into a situation where you could have an aircraft turning or go over and not handling it properly i think what i'm going to get back to put what i'm trying to get a regional airline flight just quit cops on this is a two hour flight but regional airlines tend to not be on the ground there along they'd all all that turn around maybe twenty minute mile an hour maybe max is not long enough for ice to build up on all. well absolutely absolutely and and you know

certainly pilots should be training now would be one of the things investigators will be looking at did they have training have they had ground school it's not just the flight's portion of the simulator but it's also what kind of ground school you have to recognize situations that could occur remember you want to come home just like everybody else in safety is the primary responsibility of every crewmember. i mean some of the russian airlines in the past have had a bad reputation of fly with air afloat regularly now they are they've got a super reputation as you know they fly new planes except or say there's not a company involved here now the had been a question mark a year or two ago though about saratov airlines seems there was a management change there was some sort of safety concerns it seems that was ironed out what i was wondering is again as a regional airline that makes these quick hops that makes these quick turnarounds you would hope you would think that the safety criteria the checks are the same as

for the kind of airline used to work for american airlines flying the big planes into continental i.e. is is one can of air operations say for the other or should they all be the same. typically around the globe they should be the same but we've run into this problem in russia before where there's been pressure put on crews to get in get out and you know cut costs save time now that's not to say that that was the situation here but that certainly is going to be a factor that's looked into you just said that the management change well maybe as a smaller carrier you know they you know what was the financial complection of the company is was there pressure on the crews was the or cutting costs on training it was those are standard questions and those are paramount to be answered but there should be no difference in safety when

a passenger gets on an aircraft they should expect the same level of safety from that era when if they were from aeroflot it's their duty to do that markdown olga's in a studio here just alongside kevin we understand the flight went off the right of a plane went off the radar at the last four minutes of the takeoff and that's a very short time frame as that was something to go wrong and they say the plane's almost vulnerable the most dangerous part of the flight is your own takeoff and landing. what do you think could have happened up there to create such a catastrophic situation that would have brought this plane off the radar i could never call it out with a high training. well you know them that's a very tough question to answer anything is absolutely speculative at this time we really don't know but you know in earlier reports you had people saying that they heard a loud bang what was that a loud bang and well the aircraft was still in the air was that

a loud bang when it impacted the ground if there was a lot of snow maybe the bang wouldn't have been so out so they're going to look at the debris field was there some type of an explosion on board the aircraft was there some kind of pressure sensitive device that would have caused an explosion was it a combination of factors such as we said before i saw on the a wing or go goings plus a problem with some kind of mechanical work difficulty with an engine that perhaps could have caused a distraction you know pilots a typically trained at least the pilots that we've read into and my experience over the years you train that obviously the most difficult time of an aircraft flight is the takeoff and landing and you're prepared both mentally for some type of strategy you look to asian markets you say that's not good from the takeoff and landing if you will sitting up the front on an engine found blade goes assuming

it's it's contained or not you can't really see that engine what warning to get as a pilot because i guess you've got to react really quickly up here i mean you can't see these engines how do you know that something is going wrong you want to get gauges to go on i suppose. yeah he'll get indications that depending on the the nature of the problem we'll get indications but if you think of the cockpit as almost a very choreographed scenario there's always one person flying the airplane and handling the radio and the other person handling the emergency so whoever is flying the airplane will say i've got the airplane and then you run through checklists and the first thing you do as the pilot flying is fly the airplane fly the airplane fly the airplane fly the airplane declare an emergency and then let the other person deal with the situation at hand you shut down the engine you if you have to start

thinking about fuel dumping i mean there's a lot of it depends on the scenario of the moment in the spirit of a member of the british middle of flight when they shut down the wrong engine wanted failed to shut the wrong one down years ago is such a lot to process. but we don't know any of this if i was a line through from the russian investigative committee that fears have been talking at the moment they say they've established that there have been no reports of failure from the crew of the crash and one for a flight that. you know which contradicts those early reports of course of the pilot requested budgets a landing at a local airport those have now been contradicted they've been denied by their control at that airport now by the investigative committee so what you're saying mark if one part it should be in the control of the other the radio perhaps the situation was such that one or both of the part it simply didn't have time to even put out a mayday call to request the landing all to report that anything had gone wrong. and there's not atypical that happens particularly if you know you were in the air

for five minutes you may not have had the time to do that dealing with a cat you know a catastrophic major event. that has happened before we've seen that in other incidents and again you know you're very close to the grand you're fighting for your survival at the same time that's why getting the cockpit voice recorder is going to really play a paramount effort in trying to understand what were the only one cause of this accident and what was the response of the crew at that time mark it's all to be discovered it's all to be investigated of course it's a very early days it's always good to see albeit in freesat circumstances again but american airlines calculation expert mark weiss thank you. well thought of course at this time not was really what went wrong i suppose much more with the grieving

of the friends the loved ones the relatives of those poor people who perished on the plane and as we heard from our correspondent on that at every airport just now relatives have been gathering at the destination airport in or ski took off and had a very moscow going towards could support a two hour ten minute plane ride that plane was expected their course it never got there now many understandably have been grieving look at this poor guy. absolutely howling in dismay mergence the services and doctors have been deployed to the airport they're going to help provide psychological and medical help to people trying to come to terms with what's happened so suddenly to their lives flights had been suspended there at that airport some passengers have been hunting for tickets back in as well the flight was number six w. seven zero three it was due to land at about six pm local time that was an hour and a half or so ago because it never got there. dan we're also hearing that are out of

jail and they have opened a hotline number do you have the number here is a bit long to read but if you do have a pen home already quickly it seems this hotline number if you want some information or some help is eight eight four five two nine nine seven eight three eight that's a hotline that's open for anyone worried about friends family person to the could be on that plane going to read it one more time it's a lot to take in and to get your pen and paper if you need to get it it's eight eight four five two nine nine seven eight three eight you can find more details on the sort of airline's web site that has been going slowly has to be said throughout the day or the afternoon because of the demand on it right now now one journalist who is covering the story soon realize the tragedy had touched her personally. my god i'm from that city myself from classmate i didn't crash our street.

just a reminder of those you may just be tuning into to us tonight breaking news here tonight tragically a plane with seventy one passengers and crew on board crashed shortly after takeoff from moscow's domodedovo airport one of russia's biggest busiest airports but have you thought about the aircraft itself on top of one for eight aircraft operated by a sort of line only flying since two thousand and ten fairly new it was having to order that the city close to the russian border with kazakstan as we said earlier sixty five passengers including three children confer with the passenger lists released by emergency services aged five twelve and seventeen besides the passengers six crew onboard as well the flight number six w. seven zero three all happened very quickly of course just between four four five six minutes after takeoff the plane crashed near

a village it was about sixty kilometers southeast of moscow. the service is taking part in a search and recovery operation are tragically search and rescue has finished taking place around the clock they have already recovered one of the black boxes that of course be crucial to finding out what happened in the tragic final moments of that aircraft president putin expressed his condolences to the relatives and a special commission has been set up already to investigate the incident still no word of course and what may have caused the plane to come down lots of speculation over the last two and half three hours investigators though saying all versions are being considered at this point where the conditions obviously very difficult. as well as technical malfunction we'll bring you the latest as that comes up. our our. it will continue to bring you all the latest on this tragic story plus to it being sudden they.