Thanks. I hear from expat friend on the inside, that most of the foreign pilot project team (said to be thoroughly professional and honest), have left for the CAAC land. As well I am almost certain to have seen one of their interview panel pilots commanding a red-tail 330.

One of the reasons shared was that for mainline AFL it actually is Moscow and that might be it. Somewhat unusual for the market behemoth in such a vast land.

Then add VVO and LED to this list in addition to 4 old hubs (IKT,PEE,OMS,CEK) and 2 main bases

Video is now available showing it coming to a stop and the evacuation. Couldn't find the actual video, so Click HERE for a news site that's hosting it.

50 seconds from sliding to a stop until one ofthe fire appliances is suppressing the fire isn't a bad response time, either...

Actual video of the evacuation, just released from the russian agency in charge of the investigation.

Clearly there is a big time jump in the video, impossible to say how much longer it took but quite a bit as all the people walking away from the AC are suddenly gone.

The timestamp at the bottom shows that a good 3 mins later they are spraying, but not when that started.

18 seconds from stopping to first person leaving via 1L slide needs to become a training topic, in the memory of those perished. Not sure where and to whom, but the next time (hopefully as far in the very distant future as possible) the same must not be allowed to happen.

At 52 seconds in to the video where the jump is, I can see the cockpit escape windows go from closed to open and exhausting smoke. I can only assume the pilots escaped from the cockpit windows.
I'm not aircrew and have no idea how long it would take to open the window, clime out and slide down the rope thingy times two. This might give an rough additional time to add into the video.

Great pickup! I clean missed that. :D

Is the video at 2.46 indicating that the throttles were at full power?

The person that scrambled up the slide saved a few extra lives. That was truly heroic..

I'm confused, are you talking about a transport category jet? because they don't have a Vne; they have a Vmo ... and also Vso can't be used for anything operationally... please explain further, thanks.

I wonder what the hell is burning back there like that ,thank God that many got out alive. I'm still not sure from the thread, as far as how many people perished

See link 9 posts above yours.

Thanks Mr. Dave 41 deaths and people taking luggage (shame on them). Sad, tragic RIP

In the news today (Google Translate)

Paul C;
I think you're on to something there. Looking at the video from the point that the aircraft comes to rest until about 52 seconds, it appears that the No.2 engine (can't really see behind No.1) is running at some thrust setting way above idle. Note how the flames on the ground appear to be "fanned" and the smoke plume from that area goes well aft of the empennage before moving left to right along with the rest of the flame and smoke. It appears that there is a pretty good breeze blowing from left to right of the video, which makes sense as airplane was landing into the wind (right to left).

Cheers,
Grog

Hi capngrog

I remember watching the original videos of it crashing and thinking that it just kept on going and going without slowing down and as you point out the flames appear to be well and truly fanned along the ground.

Cheers Paul

Yep, I also note the Eng Masters are off so someone has flicked them in a hurry no doubt sometime during the splice in the video. No attempt to throttle back before doing so

Throttles fully advanced, spoilers retracted and flaps 3. I wonder if that is normal landing flap with full flap for crosswind or short field landings or if full flap is normal landing and flaps 3 for take off? If the latter he appears to be in a go around configuration before disaster struck. or perhaps they just didn't get to the flaps.

Here's a serviceable Superjet 100
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....38528560cb.jpg


here's a not so serviceable Superjet 100.
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....bac907e809.jpg

Only thing worse than a botched landing is a botched go-around...

The report already stated the sequence of events. They selected reverse thrust which deployed when the WOW switches were triggered during a bounce. This meant that when they changed their mind to go around and pulled up + firewalled the throttles forward thrust was inhibited due to the reversers not (yet) being stowed. Thus smacking heavily into mother earth.