or we've heard from deputy prime minister sergei ivanov saying that he believes the more he's seen the data he's been given that this crash was caused through a combination of pilot error whether there was very thick fog on the evening in question and that may have played a role in this in causing this crash now experts who have studied these type of incidents before have corroborated what this they have an office says also telling comparisons between this crash and the fatal crash which killed polish president lech kaczynski last year so they have saying that what the preliminary data what they've seen it looks like a combination of pilot error and bad weather caused this place across. new crocodilian most of which i don't think anything would go wrong with the plane itself in forty years of operation the triple zero one three four has to do extremely reliable aircraft in previous catastrophes human error was always to blame and the same is true here the pilot should have made a second landing approach this is exactly what happened to the polish presidential airplane what. we know of

three pm in moscow this is archie coming to you live our top story this hour deputy prime minister sergei ivanov says the plane crash that killed forty four people in northwestern russia was most likely caused by a combination of bad weather and pilot error he added that it resembled the crash in which the late polish president died in april last year around midnight on sunday the routes air flight and route from moscow to that there's a crash landed on a highway just one kilometer from its destination eight passengers survived the incident and are being treated in hospital let's cross live to our t's peter oliver who is following the story for us peter tell us more about what we know about how this tragedy unfolded. well it's still very early days to finding out who actually what happened to cause this plane crash what we do know though is that these two pull over to you one thirty four plane crash landed on a highway of around a kilometer or. way from its intended destination of but that was about airports in northwestern russia. the plane split into pieces as it hit the. highway and benchley