Aeroflot Flight SU1492 crashes, 41 dead
05-06-2019, 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by hilltopflyer
The captain said it was a fire before landing. Not sure why you would still land like that. Anytime you shove the nose over bad things happen.
They were visibly on fire at that point and just barely under takeoff weight.
05-06-2019, 08:52 AM
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Reports are it was hit by lightning and then the flight control system failed to direct law which means stick deflection is equal to control surface movement. Apparently it has the same flight control system as an Airbus. If you haven't flown one I can tall you that it does not handle well in direct law. we do that in the sim and the controls are so sensitive its almost impossible not to induce oscillation. In an Airbus, ending up in direct law is a 1 in a million failure. Not sure about a Sukhoi.
05-06-2019, 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
That’s assuming the aft fire hadn’t already FUBAR’d the elevator. Never actually having landed a burning aircraft, I’m inclined to cut the crew some slack, if only because NOT EVERYBODY died. Certainly going around at that point was unlikely to have been a better option.
They were visibly on fire at that point and just barely under takeoff weight.
They were visibly on fire at that point and just barely under takeoff weight.
05-06-2019, 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Mesabah
The passengers that went out of the plane with their carry-ons should face criminal charges.
But it might possibly happen in Russia...
05-06-2019, 06:26 PM
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I wonder if he raised a hot wheel, that started the fire and the hard landing was the pilots trying to get on the ground quick. I would think the tower would have called the fire trucks if a plane returned to the field that soon after TO.
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