Fire of a Russian aircraft: passengers and crew said that it was lightning – 06/05/2019

The survivors of air disaster in Russiathis Sunday, when a plane landed with half of its cabin on fire, they claim that Lightning was the reason for the accident.

Pbadengers and the crew agree that the plane was struck by lightning before landing forcefully and almost completely on fire.

The plane has landed at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport 41 people died.

For the pilot, it was also a flash. He said it was a deadly combination of lightning, tanks filled with fuel and a hard landing.

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The driver Denis Evdokimov claimed in the Russian media that the Sukhoi Superjet 100 had to make an emergency landing. after losing some of the material on board because of lightning.

"Because of the lightning, we lost the radio contact and adopted the minimum piloting regime (…) that is to say without a computer, as usual, but directly in the mode d & # 39; 39, urgency, "explained the pilot to the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaia Pravda

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"We managed to restore communication via the emergency frequency, but it was short and only worked intermittently (…) We could say a few words, but the contact disappeared", a- he declared.

According to him, the violent landing completed the tragedy. The device burned to the ground. "The reason is surely the following: the deposits were full," he said.

"The flight Su-1492 took off, as planned, at 18:02 (at noon in Argentina) .After take-off, the crew reported an anomaly and made the decision to return to the airport of departure", announced the airport in a statement. Sunday night.

Half an hour later, "the aircraft made an emergency landing, after which the fire was declared," adds the text.

The black boxes were found on Monday. And an investigation has been opened for violation of the security rules, according to the Russian research committee. Now, they will try to determine if the cause of the tragedy was a lightning bolt or some other cause.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences to the relatives of the victims, said Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov.

The Superjet-100 was the first civil aircraft designed in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Proud of pride at its launch in 2011, it has since been criticized and has been very poorly accepted outside the Russian market and several foreign companies have raised reliability issues.

Its launch was tainted by the accident of a plane in May 2012 during a demonstration flight to Indonesia, where 45 people died.

Source: AFP AND AP

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