Dagestan Airlines Flight 372

The plane was flying a scheduled trip from Vnukovo Airport in Moscow to Uytash Airport in Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan. Two of the aircraft's three engines failed shortly after takeoff at 14:07 local time (11:07 UTC); the pilots reported the loss of engines when the aircraft was at a height of around . ==Aircraft==

The aircraft operating the flight was a tri-jet Tupolev Tu-154M, registered RA-85744, cn: 92A-927. ==Casualties==

The emergency landing resulted in 2 fatalities and 92 injuries, of which 39 were serious. One of the two dead was the brother of Magomedsalam Magomedov, the president of Dagestan. The other, the mother of a judge of the Constitutional Court of Russia, was initially reported by news media to have died of a heart attack, ==Investigation and trial==

into the crash Russian authorities dispatched investigators to the site of the emergency landing, classifying the investigation as a "criminal probe", according to the Russian Investigative Committee. Prosecutor General Yury Chaika was said to be "keeping a watchful eye" over the proceedings. The Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) said that it had begun analysis of both recovered devices, which were said to be in "satisfactory condition". The third recorder, the cockpit voice recorder, was recovered on 10 December. Analysis of the flight data recorder showed that eight minutes after the aircraft took off, at an altitude of , the fuel supply to the engines fluctuated, and as the aircraft passed , the outer two engines shut down. On 1 April 2011, investigators announced that poor fuel quality had been ruled out as a cause of the crash, despite instrument readings that indicated issues with the fuel supply before the aircraft crashed. On 26 September 2011, the MAK released its report concluding that the cause of the accident was the erroneous actions of the crew during the flight and approach in instrumental meteorological conditions with one engine running (out of three), which resulted in the aircraft approaching significantly to the right of the extended centre line, exiting the runway after landing and colliding with an embankment. The flight engineer accidentally shut off a fuel pump while transferring fuel. On 22 January 2015, the airplane's pilot Zakarzha Zakarzhayev was found guilty in court under article 263.3 of the Criminal Code of Russia (violating safety rules of transportation and air travel, which led by neglect to death of two or more people). He was given a suspended sentence of 3 years and then immediately amnestied. ==References==