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Russian Emergencies Ministry Publishes List of FlyDubai Crash Victims

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The Russian Emergencies Ministry has released the list of passengers and crew members who were on board the crashed Boeing 737-800 plane.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The list included names of 55 passengers, and seven crew members, six of whom were foreign nationals.

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FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 plane from Dubai crashed at about 03:50 Moscow time (00:50 GMT) on Saturday while attempting landing amid poor weather conditions at the Rostov-on-Don Airport (ROV). All people on board the aircraft were killed in the crash.

The crew commander of the crashed Boeing 737-800 was a Cyprian national, the Russian transport prosecutor's office said on Saturday.

"Fifty-five passengers and seven crew members have died. Six out of seven crew members were foreigners. The crew commander was a national of Cyprus," the spokesman for the prosecutor's office told RIA Novosti.

A Russian national was among the crew members of the FlyDubai plane that crashed over Russia's Rostov on Saturday, the vice-consul at the Consulate General of Russia in Dubai told RIA Novosti.

"…A Russian citizen was among the crew members," Ayna Chernova said.

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She said that according to preliminary data, citizens of Spain and the Seychelles could also be among the victims.

The Ukrainian Consulate in Rostov-on-Don said on Saturday that at least eight Ukrainian nationals might have been aboard the crashed FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 plane.

"There is preliminary information. Eight people were killed. They were citizens of Ukraine, who died in the plane crash," the spokesman at the Consulate told RIA Novosti.

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