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Old 20th Mar 2016, 16:48
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Here's a brief update today from Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee:

20 march 2016

On 20th of March 2016 the flight recorders from Boeing 737-800 A6-FDN ("FlyDubai" Airlines – United Arab Emirates) after an accident at Rostov aerodrome on 19th of March 2016 were delivered to the Interstate Aviation Committee.

The flightrecorders are significantly damaged.

The Interstate Aviation Committee specialists jointly with the specialists from the United Arab Emiratesand France have started inspection, opening and extraction of the memory modules from the protecting casing in order to continue work on recovery of the interface cables and preparation for the data downloading. The preparation works are planned to be completed by the end of today.
From the somatogravic/disorientation discussion:

I might have thought that too until one of the military stovepipe drivers on our base pulled up into the overcast after a normal takeoff and then came right back down and did a lawn dart, still in afterburner. And that was with a crew of two-two sets of eyes, but one set of controls!
Are you perhaps referring to the short tragic airshow on a weekend cross country at BNA twenty years ago? Sadly, in addition to the crew, three people in a house were killed as well.

Interestingly, 'Scary' Mary Schiavo says the FR24 ground plot supports the pilot disorientation theory:

Pilot disorientation?

CNN aviation expert Mary Schiavo said radar suggested the plane had flown three large, looping circles around the airport before it crashed.

"The poor visibility is probably the biggest clue," Schiavo said. "But this runway was lighted, it had good lighting at one end and passable lighting at the other and it did have an instrument landing system."

"With the clue of bad weather and making at least three different circles trying to reorient to this runway, it does look like pilot disorientation."
Flydubai plane crashes in Russia; 62 dead - CNN.com
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