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Crashed Boeing pilot says to flight controller he intends to make go-around

The last word of the pilot before the air crash was the word ‘circle’

MOSCOW, November 20. /ITAR-TASS/. The pilot from Boeing jet that crashed in the city of Kazan said to the flight controller before the air crash that he intended to make a go-around, spokesman of the Russian Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.

In his words, the detectives are examining records confiscated from the CCTV cameras and talks between the crew and the flight traffic control centre.

“The content of these talks shows that in general they were routine until the pilot said that the airplane had not been in the suitable position for landing, so the flying vector did not fit the runway threshold and a go-around manoeuvre. The last word of the pilot before the air crash was the word ‘circle’, which he said before the command from the flight controllers to gain an altitude of 500 metres and fly the circle at a proper altitude for the second approach to landing,” Markin said.

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