FlyDubai CEO Defends Russia Landing Decision Day After Crash
- Three other planes diverted amid high winds at airport
- Black boxes' analysis to start Monday, continue for a month
Russian Emergency Ministry rescuers search the wreckage of a crashed airplane at the Rostov-on-Don airport on March 20, 2016.
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FlyDubai’s top executive said conditions for landing were appropriate when one of its flights crashed at a windy airport in southern Russia, even though three other carriers rerouted flights to other destinations.
"As far as the operation of the flight, the airport was open, it was good enough to operate and it was good enough to land, as per the authorities," Ghaith Al Ghaith, chief executive officer of the Middle Eastern budget carrier, told reporters Sunday at a press conference in Dubai.