they might have been doing so and then the digital flight data recorders going to give all sorts of coram hours. to the aircraft investigators to determine exactly what happened to this airplane and they that investigation already had some of course to give some closure to the friends and families of the victims and of course as you quite rightly say prevent this sort of tragedy happening again. going to have to leave it that retired airline pilot and contributing editor offline magazine thanks for your time today so on the program my pleasure. for those of you perhaps is joining us a recap of what we know so far forty one people have been confirmed dead after a plane burst into flames are going to merge at sea landing here in moscow on sunday evening a passenger plane operated by aeroflot was you to fraud to move them on skin the far north of russia through thirty seven confirmed survivors from the flight when you're being treated for smoke inhalation injuries investigators have launched a criminal probe into possible safety violations and we'll keep you updated on this story as it progr

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