Sukhoi Superjet 100 fireplace at Moscow airport: 41 killed throughout laborious touchdown

Rescuers have recovered the our bodies of all victims of the hearth on board the Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane, which caught fireplace throughout an emergency touchdown at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on Might 5. “For the time being, the our bodies of 41 victims have been recovered. Most of them have been delivered to morgues for forensic examination and identification procedures,” officers mentioned. Two black packing containers (flight recorders) of the plane have been recovered as effectively. Denis Evdokimov, the pilot of the aircraft, mentioned that he was pressured to show the plane again to Sheremetyevo airport after a lightning struck the plane and brought on the radio connection and avionic gear to fail. On the time of touchdown, the plane misplaced radio communication with the bottom, but it surely was doable to revive it by an emergency radio channel. Flight management officers assisted the pilot in setting the course for the touchdown strip. The fireplace on board the passenger plane began after the plane hit the runway. The aircraft had full gasoline tanks because it was touchdown – it was not possible to conduct a manoeuvre to discharge gasoline due to the misplaced radio communication. This led the airliner to carry out laborious touchdown: the plane hit the bottom 4 instances inflicting one of many gear legs to interrupt. Fragments of the gear leg may break by the gasoline tank and the engine thus inflicting the hearth to start out. The passengers had been evacuated by the entrance door. Flight attendant Maxim Moiseyev was staying with passengers within the rear a part of the aircraft. He was attempting to open the again door for the operational evacuation of passengers from the tail part. The person didn’t succeed, so he began serving to different passengers go away the burning aircraft. The flight attendant was staying contained in the burning aircraft until the final second and was killed within the fireplace. It was additionally reported that the folks within the rear part of the aircraft began grabbing their baggage and suitcases from overhead bins and thus blocked the isle for their very own evacuation. Different passengers left the burning plane in 55 seconds whereas the established normal for this process envisages 90 seconds. The flame has destroyed many of the cabin of the plane, its tail half, melted the interior lining and burned passenger seats.Authorities of the Murmansk area declared three days of mourning in reference to the tragedy at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. All entertaining occasions will probably be canceled, flags will fly at half-mast to honour the victims. The tragedy has began quite a few discussions on the Web concerning the want for the Russian authorities to ban additional operation of Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane at the very least quickly. Nevertheless, many imagine that this won’t occur because the aircraft has value Russia hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of funds funds. In accordance with Fontanka.ru web site, the Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane with registration quantity RA-89098 had had an incident in its flight historical past. On February 7, 2018, the identical plane (Battle AFL1231) was flying from Murmansk to Moscow. When descending to land at Sheremetyevo airport, the pilots reported a failure in air brakes. There have been 82 passengers and 6 crew members on board. The pilots needed to take a ready space at an altitude of about three,300 meters. The crew carried out vital procedures and landed the aircraft with out activating air brakes 45 minutes after the malfunction report.Aeroflot’s Sukhoi Superjet plane (SSJ-100) certain to Murmansk made an emergency touchdown on Might 5, 2019, at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. The liner caught fireplace throughout touchdown. The tragedy has claimed the lives of 41 folks. A complete of 78 folks had been aboard the plane: 73 passengers and 5 crew members.