The emergency occurred in the main air harbor Northern capital. A woman with a child in her arms got off a plane that arrived on Thursday evening from Moscow. But something went wrong - the ladder folded - and the mother and baby fell down from a three-meter height.
Two victims
Flight 091" Ural Airlines"arrived in St. Petersburg at 19.00. Passengers, as usual, were given a teleport. However, when leaving Airbus aircraft A 44-year-old passenger and her one-year-old child fell from the ramp and were injured. The ladder simply collapsed under the passenger’s feet.
Airport doctors promptly transported passengers to the health center to provide first aid. Currently, the passengers have been sent by ambulance for hospitalization to one of the hospitals in St. Petersburg, the press service commented to Komsomolskaya Pravda. Air gate"Northern capital.
The official representative of the air harbor of the city on the Neva Margarita Potekhina added that other passengers were not injured. The reasons for the fall of the mother and child and the malfunction of the ladder are now being determined.
It is reported that the victims were taken to the airport health center and then hospitalized. The woman was taken to the 26th city hospital with a broken leg, the child with a traumatic brain injury was taken to the Filatov Children's Hospital. The baby is in serious condition after the fall.
Those responsible for the emergency face criminal charges
In St. Petersburg, transport police officers are conducting an investigation into the fall of a citizen and her young child from a plane at Pulkovo airport at about 19:00 on September 28, the department reported. The fall of a passenger from Moscow and her child from a plane at Pulkovo airport Law enforcement officers are already interested. The Ministry of Internal Affairs for Transport in the Northwestern Federal District began checking the circumstances of the emergency that occurred at the airport. An employee of the transport prosecutor's office immediately went to the scene of the incident. At the same time, the North-Western Transport Prosecutor's Office took control of the case.
MEANWHILE
Late in the evening it became known that the transport investigation department of the North-Western Transport Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a case under the article “provision of services that do not meet the requirements for the safety of life or health of consumers.” So far, in fact, the perpetrators have not yet been identified.
As Komsomolskaya Pravda learned, the victims were a grandmother and granddaughter. Now the baby’s mother Daria reports that the child is in serious condition in intensive care, doctors put her into an artificial coma.
Mom has numerous fractures, but her condition is stable,” says Daria. - They didn’t really explain anything to me, they only said that it was the airport’s fault. I know that my mother and my daughter went out first. The blow fell on both of them.
The woman assured that she intends to bring the case to court.
A one-and-a-half-year-old girl who fell from the ramp of a Ural Airlines plane at Pulkovo airport has died. Doctors were unable to save the child. Friends of the family told the Rosbalt agency about this.
There have been no official comments from investigators about the girl’s death yet. Previously, the Investigative Committee for Transport reported that after the tragedy it would check all aircraft steps.
“After the incident at Pulkovo Airport, when the retractable stairway span collapsed, which led to two passengers falling from a height of more than three meters - a 44-year-old woman with a one-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter, the heads of investigative departments in transport were instructed to organize work to establish the circumstances of the current operation of passenger stairways at airfields within the territory of operational service, including issues of their registration with the state,” the department’s press service reports.
Let us remind you that as a result of the incident that occurred on September 28, the woman received fractures and the girl suffered a traumatic brain injury. Passengers on the Moscow–St. Petersburg flight fell while exiting the plane onto a self-propelled ramp, which collapsed due to damage to the rotating part of the platform.
The Investigative Committee opened cases under the article on negligence and under the article on the provision of services that do not meet the requirements for the safety of life or health of consumers. The accused in the case of falling passengers is one of the managers of Pulkovo Airport. In addition, the Pulkovo mechanic was placed under house arrest, and a case was opened against him under an article about poor quality repairs.
The press service of Ural Airlines does not comment on the incident, since the ramp did not belong to them, but to Pulkovo Airport.
Mother of a girl who died after falling from a ramp in Pulkovo: Doctors didn’t even come out to talk to me
The mother of a girl who died after falling from a plane at St. Petersburg Pulkovo Airport spoke about the emergency.
“I met them at the airport, stood and waited, but they still weren’t there. People were already getting off that flight, baggage claim had ended, they were gone. I already tried to call, no one answered the phone. Then my mother called me and said that they were at the first aid station. I asked what happened, they told me that they fell. I thought they had fallen downstairs and tripped on the steps. But when I arrived at the first aid station, I realized that they had fallen from above,” says Daria Petrova.
According to the mother, within an hour after the fall, the child was taken to the hospital.
“People who were on this board wrote to me. They said that when they went down, the ladder was already wobbly,” the parent noted.
According to Petrova, despite complaints from passengers, the faulty ladder was not replaced, and passengers were stopped from leaving only after the accident.
“Mom was holding her in her arms, she had a bag on her other hand. She stepped off the side of the plane with one foot and immediately fell,” the mother added.
“The doctors tried to start the heart for half an hour, but nothing worked. She was completely under medical care for 17 days. She herself couldn’t breathe from the first day,” she says.
Daria Petrova blames Pulkovo employees for the death of the child.
Let us remind you that the incident with a woman and child falling from a ramp in Pulkovo occurred on September 28. Based on this fact, a criminal case was initiated under the article “Negligence”. Investigators detained the head of the mechanical works department, who was responsible for carrying out repeated repairs to the ladder. According to the investigation, he could have accepted work of inadequate quality.
Mother reported details of the death of a girl who fell from a ladder in Pulkovo
A one-and-a-half-year-old girl who fell from a plane at Pulkovo Airport died of cardiac arrest. Her mother told REN TV about this.
“Yesterday the child’s heart stopped. This was already the fourth stop in a day. By that time, the child had already suffered three clinical deaths. Doctors were no longer able to start a heart. They tried to start it for half an hour, but couldn’t,” the woman said.
Early in the morning, Rosbalt reported the death of the child, citing relatives.
The girl had been in intensive care since September 28 with a traumatic brain injury. Doctors assessed her condition as serious.
In St. Petersburg, a one-and-a-half-year-old girl died in the Filatov Children's Hospital. On September 28, in Pulkovo, she and her grandmother fell from a collapsed ramp; doctors fought for the child’s life for more than two weeks, but were powerless. Her mother told REN TV about this.
“Yesterday the child’s heart stopped. This was already the fourth stop in a day. By that time, the child had already suffered three clinical deaths. Doctors were no longer able to start a heart. They tried to start it for half an hour, but couldn’t,” the woman said.
The incident in Pulkovo occurred on September 28. As passengers exited the plane, a flight of stairs collapsed. A 44-year-old woman and her one-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter fell from a height of three meters. The woman suffered fractures, the girl suffered a traumatic brain injury.
In connection with this fact, a criminal case was initiated under Articles 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Provision of services that do not meet the requirements for the safety of life or health of consumers”) and 266 (“Poor quality repairs Vehicle or other transport equipment").
In addition, in relation to unidentified officials of the authorized regulatory body in the field air transport, a criminal case was initiated on the grounds of a crime under Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Negligence resulting through negligence in causing serious harm to human health”).
On September 30, it was reported that the head of the mechanical works section of the special transport service at Pulkovo Airport, who was in charge of the repair of a collapsed ramp, was detained.
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For more than two weeks, doctors fought for the life of a little girl who fell from the ramp at Pulkovo Airport. The forecasts were disappointing - during this time the child suffered three clinical deaths - but doctors tried to do the impossible. No miracle happened. 17 days after the incident, the baby’s heart stopped forever. Verochka's mother ( name changed - editor's note.) believes that airport employees are to blame for the death of her girl. The woman declares: she will ensure that these people are punished.
Fall from the ladder
On the evening of September 28, a St. Petersburg woman Daria Petrova I met my mother and 1.5-year-old daughter in Pulkovo: they were supposed to return from Moscow. The plane had already landed, and one by one the passengers came out to meet the greeters, but Maria Leonidovna and Verochka were still not there. Daria started calling her mother, but she didn’t answer the phone.
Finally, the woman called back. She told her daughter that she was at the first-aid post with her granddaughter. “I asked what happened, they told me that they fell,” Daria told REN TV. “I thought they fell downstairs and tripped on the steps.” But when I got to the first aid station, I realized that they had fallen from above.”
At the first aid station, Daria learned that the Ural Airlines airbus had landed in Pulkovo, and a ramp had been docked to it. As passengers were leaving the plane, part of the ramp came off. A 44-year-old woman and her 1.5-year-old granddaughter fell to the ground from a height of three meters. As other passengers would later tell Petrova, the gangway began to sway greatly as soon as people stepped on it. It was scary to go. And the fears turned out to be unfounded.
17 days of struggle
The victims were taken to the hospital. The woman was diagnosed with broken legs, two ribs and a concussion. The girl's condition was serious: bruises of the heart, lungs, liver, and traumatic brain injury. The child was placed in intensive care and put into an artificial coma. For almost three weeks, doctors fought for the baby’s life, but Verochka was no longer destined to regain consciousness. In 17 days, the baby suffered three clinical deaths. When the girl’s heart stopped again, it was no longer possible to start it. “They tried to start it for half an hour, but couldn’t,” says Daria. - Nothing succeeded".
The inconsolable mother believes that the airport staff, who did not monitor the condition of the equipment, are solely to blame for the incident. The woman intends to ensure that all people involved in the death of her daughter receive the punishment they deserve.
There have been no official comments regarding the girl’s death yet. Criminal cases have been initiated under articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Poor quality repairs of vehicles or other transport equipment”, “Provision of services that do not meet the requirements for the safety of life or health of consumers” and “Negligence resulting through negligence in causing serious harm to human health”. Whether the last point will be reclassified from “serious harm to health” to “death” is still unknown.
Nobody noticed the defect
Representatives of the Investigative Committee interrogated Pulkovo employees who carried out maintenance on the ladder, and also studied all technical documentation. It turned out that the rotating part of the platform of the old ladder had been repaired many times already - it turns out that the work was not carried out properly. In addition, the malfunction should have been identified during the daily inspection of the equipment. However, no one noticed the defect.
As a result of the inspection, the head of the mechanical works section of the special transport service at Pulkovo Airport, who was responsible for repairing the ramp, was detained. The man has already confessed, and the issue of choosing a preventive measure for him will be decided in the near future.
Pulkovo stated that all old equipment at the airport will be replaced as quickly as possible, but exactly when this will happen is unknown, everything depends on supplies.
“It is obvious to me that the airport employees were simply inattentive to their work - they were tired, overlooked, did not notice the defect,” notes an independent expert, aviation mechanic Alexey Korostylev. - Not a single detail should be overlooked at the airport. And so, the child was killed. This could have been avoided if everyone had done their job properly. That's all".
Six people were injured as a result of falling from a ramp while boarding a plane in Barnaul, three of them were hospitalized. A message about this was posted on the website of the press service of the Ministry of Transport of the Altai Territory.
“The ramp collapsed, as a result of which five passengers were injured; two did not require hospitalization. Three people are in the Regional Clinical Emergency Hospital. The airport administration apologizes and guarantees the provision of the full range of medical services,” the text says.
The airport administration issued a decree to conduct an extraordinary inspection of the technical condition of all airstrips. A commission is being formed to establish the causes of the incident. It is reported that the ladder was tested according to the regulations in October 2018. There were no complaints about his condition.
The ship took off from Barnaul to Moscow with a two-hour delay, the press service told TASS. local airport. “The departure was supposed to take place at 07:30 (03:30 Moscow time). The Ural Airlines plane took off at 09:38 (05:38 Moscow time). Now the commission is checking [the incident],” the agency’s interlocutor said, adding that the rest of the passengers feel fine.
The Investigative Committee opened a case under two articles: in connection with possible negligence and the provision of services that do not meet safety requirements. As it turned out, the support for the gangway platform was a homemade analogue and did not meet safety requirements.
The media previously wrote that there is nothing unusual in replacing a gangway part with one made by airport repairmen: the special transport service has an extensive network of divisions, the craftsmen of which are obliged, at the request of all Pulkovo divisions, to manufacture spare parts, repair individual parts, components and assemblies, and also carry out “non-standard” production tasks" on their own. Therefore, the original axle of the American manufacturer FMC was replaced with a homemade one, machined at Pulkovo.
