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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, March 20. Here are the top stories
00:07at this hour.
00:08Fly Dubai will organize a program of hardship payments of $20,000 to the families of each
00:14victim who died when Flight FC-981 fatally crashed in Rostov-on-Don on Saturday. The
00:20Dubai airliner, with 62 people on board, nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball while trying
00:27to land in strong winds in the southern Russian city, killing all aboard. The airline said
00:32it will release the official list of those on board the fatal flight after it contacted
00:36the families. A provisional list of names of all 55 passengers on board, including four
00:41children, was released on Saturday by Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry. Just hours
00:47after reports of the flight crash started emerging, Fly Dubai's chief executive asked
00:52the public to avoid speculating on the reasons behind the tragedy.
00:56What was the weather exactly? How did that affect this unfortunate accident? It's too
01:01early to tell. We cannot speculate, Geithel Geith said at a press conference. The flight
01:07was operated by a five-year-old Boeing 737-800, which had been serviced just two months earlier.
01:14The Cypriot pilot and the Spanish co-pilot of the flight both leave behind wives who
01:18are expecting children, Gulf News had learned. Captain Aristo Socrates was expecting a son
01:24with his wife, while the spouse of co-pilot Alejandro Cruz-Aleva is expecting twins.
01:30Socrates had also handed his resignation notice to Fly Dubai and was about to take up a job
01:35offer with Ryanair on Monday. For passengers Shaan Mohan and Anju, love took them to Russia,
01:42only for death to shatter their dreams. The couple on board the fateful flight were returning
01:46after a month's holiday at home in Kerala. Follow our live updates on the Fly Dubai crash
01:51coverage on gulfnews.com. And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 27 degrees
01:58Celsius, dropping to 19 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching.
02:03And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.