Dubai: After nearly seven years of operations, flydubai saw its first tragedy on Saturday when one of its aircraft crashed in Russia killing all passengers and crew on board.
Flydubai started operations in June 2009 with a maiden flight to Beirut in Lebanon. The airline instantly started turning heads. Set up by the government of Dubai to replicate the success of European and American low cost carriers it ordered 50 Boeing 737-800s in 2008.
On Saturday, flydubai flight 981 carrying 62 passengers and crew crashed and exploded attempting to land at an airport in Rostov-on-Don in southwestern Russia exactly 8 years after the airline was set up on March 19, 2008. It launched flights 15 months later in 2009.
19/03/16 Alexander Cornwell/Gulf News
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Flydubai started operations in June 2009 with a maiden flight to Beirut in Lebanon. The airline instantly started turning heads. Set up by the government of Dubai to replicate the success of European and American low cost carriers it ordered 50 Boeing 737-800s in 2008.
On Saturday, flydubai flight 981 carrying 62 passengers and crew crashed and exploded attempting to land at an airport in Rostov-on-Don in southwestern Russia exactly 8 years after the airline was set up on March 19, 2008. It launched flights 15 months later in 2009.
19/03/16 Alexander Cornwell/Gulf News
