CRJ Crash at UUWW
Actually this was a CRJ 200 that had been converted for corporate use. It was formerly owned by Fun Air from Florida. Fun Air is owned by the CEO of Carnival Cruise Lines. It was previously registered as N305CC.
I had just landed in a heavy snow storm in the Falcon 900B that I was flying out of UUWW. My F/O was friends with one of the crew and we spoke a bit before they took off.
They had a nosewheel steering failure and were ferrying the aircraft to Berlin for maintenance.
My F/O told me that he visited his friend in the hospital a few days after the crash. His friend told him that the Captain apparently rotated prior to VR and all upon breaking the ground, all hell broke loose.
They obviously stalled and rolled the aircraft, landing upside down next to the runway.
It's possible that there hold over time had expired too. It was snowing very heavily at the time they taxiied out and in Vnukovo the taxi can be quite long.