World | Russia Navigator in Russian Plane Crash 'Was Drunk' 47 killed in June disaster By Matt Cantor Posted Sep 19, 2011 6:31 AM CDT Copied Forensic experts examine a body near wreckage of the Tu-134 plane, June 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Timur Khanov, Komsomolskaya Pravda) The navigator for a Russian passenger flight that crashed in June was “in a condition of alcoholic intoxication,” a rep for the country's top investigative body told state television yesterday. Some 47 people were killed when the RusAir Tupolev-134 hit a highway in northwest Russia just before it was due to land, the AP notes. The navigator, killed in the disaster, is believed to have drunk a glass of vodka before takeoff, the broadcast noted. (Click to read about a deadly weekend crash in Reno.) Read These Next Beyonce leaves national anthem unfinished. This is the most 'American' car on the road. Musk says his new party is in business. What makes a person cool? These six traits. Report an error