As more details over Azerbaijan Airlines crash emerge, pilots and crew are hailed as heroes

Euronews ^ | 12/26/2024 | Staff

[marcusmaximus]

As harrowing details emerge of the last moments of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8432, which crashed on Wednesday in Aktau, the flight crew who did their best to save the passengers until the last moment are being hailed as heroes.

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Government sources have told Euronews that the damaged aircraft was not allowed to land at any Russian airports despite the pilots’ requests for an emergency landing, and it was ordered to fly across the Caspian Sea towards Aktau in Kazakhstan.

According to data, the plane’s GPS navigation systems were jammed throughout the flight path above the sea.

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Remarkable airmanship

Captain Kshnyakin had a flight experience of over 15,000 hours of which 11,200 hours as captain, according to Azerbaijan Airlines.

He and First Officer Kalyaninov displayed remarkable airmanship, according to experts, as they managed to fly the stricken plane across the Caspian Sea and crash landing just 3 kilometres short of the Aktau airport runway. Based on the footage of the crash site and the airplane wreckage, aviation experts concluded that the Embraer 190’s left horizontal stabiliser appears to be punctured by shrapnel and that the aircraft lost most of its hydraulic systems, likely including rudder control. The videos analysed by experts show the pilots were forced to vary the aircraft speed, pitching down to gain speed and climbing to slow down to be able to steer the plane, resulting in what is known as phugoid motion or an oscillation. The pilots did not seem to have the choice to land the plane softly, and they had to attempt a crash landing without being able to flare.

[janetjanet998]

I remember the Sioux City

United Airlines Flight 232 Crash in Sioux City & Survivors - CBS Evening News - July 20, 1989
https://rumble.com/vl65sd-united-airlines-flight-232-crash-in-sioux-city-and-survivors-cbs-evening-ne.html

[PIF]

There were UKR drones in the area, so the Russian air defense shot them down. Typical.

[willk]

This is more like the Sioux City crash. Only controls were throttles.

[OKC Patriot]

And just think if Sully had not been successful we might never have known Helen the EMT tech thar we now see doing Omega XL commercials every few minutes of every day…. Seriously, as a pilot, losing all control hydraulics usually results in no survivors….

[ABN 505]

The second coming according to the media.

[citizen]

US Airways flight 1549 (Sully) and the “ditching switch.”

I am assuming using it slows water coming into the airline cabin?

[pfflier]

It closes fuselage AC and ram air vents. Since they were left open the airplane took in water faster..

[Robert357]

Perhaps it is past time for an international war crimes tribunal to investigate and convict Putin and the Russian military chain of command for the downing of two commercial airliners and the deaths of their passengers.

Let us not forget Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-backed forces with a Buk 9M38 surface-to-air missile on 17 July 2014, while flying over eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed.

These to attacks on civilian airliners are war crimes.

It would be good to learn that Putin and others were hanged by the neck and buried in unmarked graves.

[citizen]

Ah, interesting.

It did stay afloat long enough for the nearby flotilla to rescue all those people standing on the wings. What a picture that was!

[NorseViking]

Russia is not a part of international court system. Also if you’d research the MH17 case you’d find that it was absolutely absurd trial.

[lodi90]

Here we see more mass murdering buffoonery from Putin’s regime. The only appropriate thing to do at this point is suspend international air travel to/from Russia.