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Old 14th May 2019, 09:37
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I suggest a few people have not read much.
There were several articles notably on Medusa in Russia, including of the last person to get out alive, who actually saw the severe lightning strike from his seat
The bags issue is a load of horse manure on here, - can't think why, and why it has taken up and wasted pages.

In some of the more recent articles in Russia there is a good deal of confusion even quoting the unfortunate Indonesian accident blaming the plane not the pilot.
You really couldn't make it up!
One accident with freak weather, and the rumour mill fills columns.

When the level of disinformation gets to this pitch, it's time to call a halt.
Next, one Russian press in particular filled with jealousy and schadenfreude plus some of the industry have the knives out for what is actually a very nice plane to fly on.
Now they even try to plug the MC21 "cos it's made mostly in Russia right"?

(One such "expert" Anastasia Dagaeva - an aviation columnist at Forbes, Vedomosti, Harvard Business Review... appears never to have flown on a SSJ).

People have short memories, especially of the various A320/AF/AF447 issues which TBQH resulted in far higher accident rates non survivable crashes but had a compliant state and press to "pick up the pieces".
(Let's not forget the decades of litigation blocked by cynical airbus lawyers and the absence of compensation for the A320 Mont St Odile crash, where most of the survivors died by freezing to death!)

FYI, here the rear passengers in this A/C were condemned to die by the fuel fire and CO poisoning.
Nothing would have saved them.
Some heroes carried on trying to help passengers out and died themselves.

It appears from the interview of the last one out, most people were NOT injured by the rough landing which was again speculated on, but those from the back rows that DID survive, picked themselves up and RAN as fast as possible for the forward exit while the A/C was still moving, and they realised rear exits would not work as they watched their windows melting...

Like it or not, we have to wait for a full report from the MAK to get to the bottom of this, and explain why Aeroflot are currently grounding a lot of them.
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