• Russian Emergency Ministry employees investigate the wreckage of a crashed plane at the Rostov-on-Don airport, about 950 kilometres south of Moscow, Russia. Winds were gusting before dawn Saturday over the airport in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don when a plane carrying 62 people from Dubai. AP Photo
    Russian Emergency Ministry employees investigate the wreckage of a crashed plane at the Rostov-on-Don airport, about 950 kilometres south of Moscow, Russia. Winds were gusting before dawn Saturday over the airport in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don when a plane carrying 62 people from Dubai. AP Photo
  • Russian Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov and Vasily Golubev, the governor of Rostov region, visit the crash site on Sunday. Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
    Russian Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov and Vasily Golubev, the governor of Rostov region, visit the crash site on Sunday. Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
  • Russian Police and Emergency Ministry employees investigate the wreckage of the crashed plane at the Rostov-on-Don airport. Investigators were to spend the day combing the scene for clues of what caused the crash. AP Photo
    Russian Police and Emergency Ministry employees investigate the wreckage of the crashed plane at the Rostov-on-Don airport. Investigators were to spend the day combing the scene for clues of what caused the crash. AP Photo
  • Russian Police and Emergency Ministry employees investigate the wreckage of the crashed plane at the Rostov-on-Don airport. Investigators were to spend the day combing the scene for clues of what caused the crash. The plane’s black boxes were flown to Moscow late Saturday for examination by experts from Russia, the UAE, France and the US. AP Photo
    Russian Police and Emergency Ministry employees investigate the wreckage of the crashed plane at the Rostov-on-Don airport. Investigators were to spend the day combing the scene for clues of what caused the crash. The plane’s black boxes were flown to Moscow late Saturday for examination by experts from Russia, the UAE, France and the US. AP Photo
  • Emergencies Ministry members work at the crash site of Boeing 737-800 Flight FZ981, operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, at the airport of Rostov-On-Don, Russia on Sunday. Maxim Shemetov /
    Emergencies Ministry members work at the crash site of Boeing 737-800 Flight FZ981, operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, at the airport of Rostov-On-Don, Russia on Sunday. Maxim Shemetov /
  • A small crowd, some of them relatives and friends of the victims of the crashed plane, comfort one another at the Rostov-on-Don airport. All 62 people aboard the flight from Dubai were killed in the crash. AP Photo
    A small crowd, some of them relatives and friends of the victims of the crashed plane, comfort one another at the Rostov-on-Don airport. All 62 people aboard the flight from Dubai were killed in the crash. AP Photo

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Emergency workers complete salvage operation at FlyDubai crash site in Russia - in pictures

Jen Thomas

March 20, 2016

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Emergency workers on Sunday finished combing the debris-laden runway of the airport in Rostov-on-Don where the FlyDubai plane carrying 62 people crashed before dawn on Saturday. Investigators in southern Russia were probing the causes of the crash, which came from Dubai, as the workers at the site wrapped up the salvage operation.

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