Donna Bull, who was on a marketing trip from an international college in Cambridge, was among 50 dead in Tatarstan crash
A British woman who was among the 50 people who died when a Russian passenger plane crashed on landing has been named.
Donna Bull was on the Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 727 that was reportedly attempting a second landing at Kazan international airport when it hit the ground and caught fire at around 7.20pm on Sunday.
Bull was "a very popular and well-respected member of staff" at Bellerbys College in Cambridge, said James Pitman, the managing director of the college's parent company, Study Group. A Moscow-based colleage of Bull also died in the crash Moscow-based colleague.
In a statement, Pitman said: "We have received confirmation of the very sad news that our Bellerbys colleagues Donna Bull and Yana Baranova were on the plane that crashed in the Russian city of Kazan yesterday.
"Donna had flown out from the UK to Moscow earlier in the day, where she met Yana, and the two were heading to Kazan for the start of a 10-day marketing trip."
Pitman said Bull joined Bellerbys in April last year as an A-levels programme manager. "She was a very popular and well-respected member of staff and will be sorely missed by both her students and colleagues," he said.
Baranova, although based in Moscow, forged close relationships with Bellerbys staff in the UK in her capacity as recruitment manager and will also be "sorely missed", Pitman said. "We offer our heartfelt condolences to both families during this very difficult time."
Bellerbys Cambridge is to be closed for teaching on Monday, but open for staff and students to "come together and grieve", Pitman said.
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