Flydubai, a sister firm of Dubai's flagship carrier Emirates Airlines, said in a statement that at present, its priority is to identify and contact the families of the victims on board flight FZ981 and provide immediate support to those affected.
"flydubai will additionally organise a programme of hardship payments to the families amounting to USD 20,000 per passenger, in accordance with our Conditions of Carriage, with the aim of addressing immediate financial needs," the statement said.
All 55 passengers and seven crew members on board the airliner were declared instantly dead. The deceased, that included Indians Mohan Shyam and his wife Anju Kathirvel Aiyappa, were mostly Russians.
The passengers included 33 women, 18 men and four children while of the seven crew members, five were men and two were women.
Representatives from the state-owned budget airline were arriving in Rostov-on-Don - a city of some 1 million around 1,000 kilometres south of Moscow to aid the criminal probe into whether pilot error, a technical fault or poor weather was to blame for the accident.