Originally Posted by
FUMR
Perhaps his experience is what saved them?!
undoubtedly will have played a part in it, but in the last second before impact, they had a great deal of luck. Putting the cabin pretty intact between a wall and a building, smashing the right wing to pieces, with the tail, as a perfect crumple zone, smashing on the wall. And the nose held in place with the help of the X-mas tree
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Wonder what the weather conditions were, with that part of Europe transitioning on Monday from a pretty cold and snowy period, to freeze free days as from Tuesday.
They had been flying at FL80 from a while it seems, followed by a stable descent, until things went south. Not sure what kit was onboard
if icing conditions were inadvertently entered. On the few photo's after it's 2020 overhaul and repaint, not much of such a kit can be seen on the plane.