This accident is eerily similar to the Smolensk disaster of April 10, 2010. Had this report been published in timely fashion and properly studied, it might have prevented a national calamity and all that has followed since. The damage to the B738 is astonishing, but they were very lucky just to take out a bunch of lights instead of colliding with a solid tree as at Smolensk and losing much of one wing causing a barrel roll into the ground.