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Alcohol Cited in 2008 Russian Crash

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A pilot’s drunkenness was a contributing cause of a commercial airline crash in Russia in 2008, Russian prosecutors said on Monday, reaching a conclusion extraordinarily rare in airline crash investigations.

Russia’s aviation safety authorities had reported a year ago that the pilot of the Boeing 737 operated by a domestic subsidiary of Aeroflot, the national airline, had alcohol in his blood at the time of the accident, but left undecided whether it had played a role in the accident that killed all 88 people aboard.

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