Crashed FlyDubai’s Captain Had Almost 6,000 Hours of Flight Experience

 

The FlyDubai Boeing-737-800 captain had excellent experience having perviously flown almost 6,000 hours, FlyDubai CEO Ghaith Al-Ghaith said at a press-conferense.

 

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‘The crew captain had 5,965 flight hours, excellent experience in my opinion’, Ghaith Al-Ghaith said.

 

A FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 plane coming from Dubai with 55 passengers  and 7 crew on board crashed at about 03:50 Moscow time (00:50 GMT) on March 19 while attempting to land amid poor weather conditions at the Rostov-on-Don Airport in Russia. All people on board the aircraft were killed in the crash.