Here is a link to story about the captain Владимир Курбатов Vladimir Kurbatov of the flight
:: komikz.ru but in Russian. It talks about his life and how he loved flying. Interesting superstitions mentioned in there that the wife had dream about receiving white flowers before she found out he died. When you dream about white flowers it's a bad sign. She previously had a dream about white flowers and a few days later her mother died. She usually always came to the airport with the captain to say bye when he left for Africa but this time she did not because she was sick. His family was begging him not to go to Africa again but he needed the money and he promised them this would be his last trip. His regular co pilot who was another experienced russsian was supposed fly with him but could not because he got sick he also was telling him not to take the flight. Instead the captain had to fly with some fresh out of flight training Indian kid. Also talks about how a lot of these guys have no choice but to go to Africa because they can't find work back home. A lot of times the companies in afrika rip them off and the Russian government does not help or protect them.