Tatarstan Airlines 737-500 Crash

[Chicago]

This evening a Boeing 737-500 Crashed in Kazan
All 44 people on board have not survived the accident according to the first reports.
The flight departed Moscow's Domodedovo Airport this evening for a flight to Kazan.

Aircraft involved is VQ-BBN 735 according to the fist reports.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... 20131117-0

Photo:
https://twitter.com/ActualidadRT/status ... 32/photo/1

[michel N]

According to Russia Today, it crashed on it's third landing attempt. They mention a crew error as possible cause of the crash. Although it seems too early te mention any possible cause.

[Biondina]

It is probably just the lighting of the photo, but it looks like a 4 blade prop in front of the engine. I am not saying it is. It just looks that way? Any idea what that is.

[Marcelb]

This photo is not a photo of the crashed B737-500. https://twitter.com/ActualidadRT/status ... 32/photo/1
It is of an Antonov 26 crash

[Biondina]

That explains the prop in the picture.

[Richard from Rotterdam]

In video-footage shown on the BBC part of the registration "BN" could be read off part of the wreckage.

[Stratofreighter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKHpUEHY2tI

Gepubliceerd op 18 nov 2013

Security cam footage of a Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737's nosedive has been released,
just as a number of theories about the circumstances and causes of the crash that claimed 50 lives are still emerging.

[Stratofreighter]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25005211
and
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... nd-393302/

The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), a body authorised to investigate civil air incidents in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) comprising former Soviet countries,
said that its preliminarily findings were that the crash was caused by pilot error.

It said that the plane lost speed in a steep climb then over-compensated, which sent it into a near-vertical dive.

The committee said that the two pilots failed to make a proper landing approach on the first attempt and then began a second run.

"Finding out that their attitude was not appropriate for landing, the crew started a go-around manoeuvre...
After the airspeed dropped to 125 knots, the crew started a pushover manoeuvre using the steering column,
which caused the plane to stop climbing and dive,
with its instrument airspeed rising,"
the committee's report said.

The report drew its conclusions from data retrieved from one of the plane's on-board recorders,
correspondents say, and the climb and subsequent plunge lasted only about one minute.

The plane struck the ground at about 450 km/h hour (280 mph), the report said.