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I am surprised to find no thread about this one yet, it is one of the worst airliner accidents in Russia of the past years. Especially Aeroflot had no fatalities since 2008 (Aeroflot Flight 821).
A two year old Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft had to abort its flight to Murmansk after a climb to 9000 ft altitude, likely because of a lightning strike, landing very hard and seemingly with control problems after returning to Moscow.
The aircraft caught fire directly after the first hard impact, most victims likely died in the flaming inferno that starting in the aft of the aircraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_1492
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Superjet_100
One contributing factor in the high number of victims was likely that passengers tried to rescue their hand luggage, slowing the evacuation that way.
While it would be easy to blame Russian technology for the accident, it should be remembered that most avionics of the aircraft are US products. Western sanctions against Russia could have been a possible cause there, but even that is rather unlikely, since most aircraft parts are not subject to the sanctions right now (but the threat exists, that is why Sukhoi tries to create a version of the Superjet using only domestic parts).
There are some complaints about the accident getting only 10 minutes of time in Russian TV news all together, with foreign politics dominating there right now.
A two year old Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft had to abort its flight to Murmansk after a climb to 9000 ft altitude, likely because of a lightning strike, landing very hard and seemingly with control problems after returning to Moscow.
The aircraft caught fire directly after the first hard impact, most victims likely died in the flaming inferno that starting in the aft of the aircraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_1492
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Superjet_100
One contributing factor in the high number of victims was likely that passengers tried to rescue their hand luggage, slowing the evacuation that way.
While it would be easy to blame Russian technology for the accident, it should be remembered that most avionics of the aircraft are US products. Western sanctions against Russia could have been a possible cause there, but even that is rather unlikely, since most aircraft parts are not subject to the sanctions right now (but the threat exists, that is why Sukhoi tries to create a version of the Superjet using only domestic parts).
There are some complaints about the accident getting only 10 minutes of time in Russian TV news all together, with foreign politics dominating there right now.