Investigation of the crash: pilot error accelerated the spread of fire in an aircraft burned down in Sheremetyevo

After interrogating the pilots of the burnt SSJ100, the investigators concluded that the crew had made mistakes. After landing, the pilots did not turn off the engines, in addition, a window was opened in the cockpit, which could indirectly affect the spread of fire. Employees of the Investigative Committee and the Federal Air Transport Agency are checking the actions of the crew of the burnt ...

Sheremetyevo disaster: why Superjet 100 was abandoned abroad

On May 5, a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 caught fire at Sheremetyevo Airport, killing 41 people. According to the crew members, after takeoff, the Aeroflot plane was struck by lightning, which caused its main radio station to fail; The decision was made to return to the airport. The landing was hard, the plane hit the runway three times; A fire broke out at the rear of the aircraft. Previously…

Disaster in the faces: the history of people killed in an airplane at Sheremetyevo

The tragedy at the Sheremetyevo airport claimed the lives of 41 people out of 78 on board. A doctor, an employee of the Murmansk ministry, a married couple ... All of them are someone's friends, relatives, colleagues who flew from Moscow to Murmansk and for whom this flight was the last. Catastrophe…

'Sat down with a light': Sheremetyevo employees sneered at the burning plane. VIDEO

Employees of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport laughed and joked when they saw the burning plane landing. A video of the incident was distributed online. The recording shows how people are watching the tragedy on the runway from an office on the walls of which there are monitors displaying what is happening...

'Black smoke poured down': eyewitness accounts and three versions of the disaster at Sheremetyevo. VIDEO

There were 78 people on board the Aeroflot aircraft, which caught fire when landing at Sheremetyevo; According to the UK, 41 people were killed. What the crew, passengers, their relatives and eyewitnesses told about what happened, as well as three versions of the disaster at Sheremetyevo - in the ForumDaily material. Currently ...

Shocking confession: Boeing knew about the 737 MAX malfunction a year before the airliner's first crash

Boeing engineers knew about failures in the system for warning pilots about a dangerous angle of attack (“lifting up” the aircraft’s nose) on the 737 MAX airliner back in 2017 – a year before the first crash of an aircraft of this model in Indonesia, the second crash occurred five months later.…

Rebirth: a hunch forced the Russian woman to hand over tickets for the fateful Aeroflot flight

A resident of the Murmansk region, Alena Medvedeva, who was supposed to fly on a plane that burned down at Sheremetyevo, told RIA Novosti about a premonition that saved her life. Alena works in the authorities of the Murmansk region, together with her daughter she flew to her parents in Belgorod and was going to ...

The list of those killed on the plane at Sheremetyevo has become known: among them there is an American

A US citizen died in an SSJ-100 plane crash at Sheremetyevo airport. “According to the flight lists, the American Jeremy Hinton Brooks was on board the emergency Superjet, who was flying from Los Angeles with a connection in Moscow,” an informed source told Interfax. RIA FAN published the full...

Sheremetyevo caught fire passenger liner: 41 people died

Aeroflot's passenger airliner caught fire at Sheremetyevo airport. There were 78 people on board - 73 passengers and five crew members, RBC writes. “The passenger plane took off from Sheremetyevo to Murmansk. After some time, he requested an emergency landing, and caught fire when landing, "- ...

Boeing 737 MAX found new security issues.

The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States received at least four new complaints about the security system of Boeing 737 Max airliners. Some of the reported problems were related to the same crashes that led to the plane crashes in Indonesia in October 2018 and in ...

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