Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin on Tuesday signed a decree to decorate the members of the crew from Carpatair who crash-landed a SAAB-200 at the international airport in the Romanian city of Timisoara on Saturday, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the presidential press unit, the members of the crew -- who are Moldovan citizens working for the Romanian airline Carpatair -- have been decorated “for the high professionalism and self-sacrifice manifested in the emergency situation created during the flight Chisinau-Timisoara”. The pilots Yuri Lyakhov and Leonid Babinsky were awarded the Order of Honor, while the flight attendants Natalia Borozan and Violeta Tsybulsky the Medal of Civic Merit. The Carpatair airliner on the flight from Chisinau to Timsoara made an emergency landing at the Timisoara airport on Saturday, with no one of the 47 passengers aboard injured. The plane circled over the airport for one and a half hour before landing to use up all the fuel and minimize the possibility of an explosion. For the same purpose a foam carpet was spread out on the landing strip. Preliminary investigations blamed the emergency on troubles with the landing gear and excluded human error. Final results will be available in several months. The members of the crew returned to Chisinau on March 2 and were welcomed as heroes.