Russian Siberian Airliner Crash Kills 31, survivor was 'Too Tired' to Board Ill-Fated Plane

Russian Siberian Airliner Crash Kills 31, survivor was 'Too Tired' to Board Ill-Fated Plane.(RN).A 36-year-old businessman from Tyumen missed the ill-fated flight to Surgut that crashed shortly after takeoff killing 31 people, the city’s deputy prosecutor general said. “According to the pre-flight list, there should have been 40 passengers on board, but one person missed the flight and this possibly saved his life,” Valentin Tarasov said. The lucky survivor, Dmitry Grigoryev, told the Life News portal that he had to go to Surgut on a business trip, but was just too tired to go to the airport after a kite surfing competition and decided to take another flight. “I had the ticket in my pocket,” Grigoryev said. “But I was returning from the competition in my car and had to spend several hours behind the wheel. The weather was bad, the road was awful, so I got home only by three a.m. local time. I decided to take another flight on Tuesday. I was so tired I did not even call to the airport to change the ticket.” He said that he learned about the disaster from his colleague’s wife, who called him upon hearing about the crash. “She asked me if I was alive. Then everything got blurry… The first thing I did was to call my mother,” Grigoryev said. The survivor said he cancelled all nearest business trips. “I don’t know if I’ll be able to fly to Surgut. Psychologically, this is too hard,” he said.Read the full story here, more here.