Survivor of Vnukovo plane crash starts breathing independently - doctors
MOSCOW. Dec 31 (Interfax) - A man who survived the December 29 crash of a Tupolev Tu-204 passenger jet at Moscow's Vnukovo airport has been taken off the ventilator at the Sklifosovsky Emergency Medicine Research Institute and started breathing on his own.
"The patient's condition remains serious. The patient is in intensive care, and he has been allowed to breathe independently," the institute's administration told Interfax on Monday.
The man, 26, who was hospitalized to the Sklifosovsky Institute following the Saturday crash, had undergone surgery on the spinal cord on Sunday.
Two other survivors, a 26-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man, are at Pirogov Clinical Hospital No. 1.
While landing at Moscow's Vnukovo airport at 4:45 p.m. on December 29, a Tupolev Tu-204 passenger jet overrun the runway, broke into several fragments and burst into flames. There were only eight crewmembers on board the plane. Four of them, including the captain, were killed immediately, and the other four were seriously injured and hospitalized. One more crash victim died later in the hospital.
