MOSCOW - The navigator of a Tu-134 plane that crashed in northern Russia in June killing 47people was slightly drunk, the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) said in a Monday report.
The MAK for Russia and other former Soviet republics believed the drunken navigator partlycaused the fatal crash.
"The subordination of the captain to the navigator, who was in a state of agitation and slightlyintoxicated" was a contributing factor to the accident, the report said.
It added that the crew decided "not to go round for a second approach" before landing, whenthe plane was already below a "minimum safety altitude."
The tragedy was also attributed to the poor crew resource management by the captain, thereport said.
On June 20, a Russian Tu-134 passenger plane crashed in heavy fog on a highway about 1km away from the Petrozavodsk airport in northwestern Russia, killing 47 people and injuringfive others.
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