Posted on 09/14/2008 2:30:01 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Russian jet crash kills all 88 on board
Photo: AFP
PERM, Russia (AFP) - An Aeroflot Boeing-737 jet crashed near a Ural mountains city Sunday killing all 88 passengers and crew on board, after reportedly catching fire in the sky, the airline said.
There were 21 foreigners and seven children on the jet which came down as it prepared to land in Perm on a flight from Moscow. The wreckage cut off the Trans-Siberian railway.
"It was burning while still in the sky and it looked like a falling comet," one female witness told Russia's Vesti-24 television.
The jet narrowly missed a main residential area as it fell shortly after 5:00 am (2300 GMT Saturday).
Aeroflot confirmed there were no survivors and said the dead included nine people from Azerbaijan, five from Ukraine and one each from France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Switzerland, and Turkey.
One passenger was also said to be American but US officials were reportedly checking that information.
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Ping!
Darnski.
I wonder if the guy was the Russian Ron Brown.
Funny how nobody ever talks about the Flight 587 crash in Queens on November 12, 2001 which killed 262.
Almost certainly a shoe bomb, the NTSB just covered it up.
Like it never even happened.
One would think that the Jihadists would be happy to take the credit if they were the perps.
How does a shoe bomb cause the rudder to snap off?
I recall that the crash of 587 was a result of a jack screw problem.
Seems it ran the elevator to the limit and still kept turning, stripping itself.
That POS Blakely was saying it wasn't terrorism hours after the accident, and they concocted a story to make it so.
Lots of eyewitnesses heard a bang and the thing came down in flames.
Because the Pilot had a heavy foot?
You have got to be kidding.
That’s why the rudder landed on the ground long before the plane did...
Watch the Russians blame someone like the Georgians or Ukrainians.
“That’s why the rudder landed on the ground long before the plane did...”
Losing the rudder would not generally cause an aircraft to crash on take-off (or at any other time). Losing a rudder would only impact the aircraft’s turning ability, but it would have next to nothing to do with the aircraft’s ability to get aloft and stay there.
...because nobody believed that their could be another weird fatal crash out of JFK involving an aircraft load of innocents put into the ground by muslims. And since that one I think someone caught on because there hasn’t been another.
Egypt Air, and a couple of others comes to mind.
BUT..
Then there is this http://www.iasa.com.au/folders/Safety_Issues/others/airbusfatalflaws.html
Wrong.
(Continuing) A rudder would aid in take-off if there was a flank wind that created a drift or yaw in the aircraft’s flight, but it would just keep the aircraft headed in the desired direction and not affect lift.
Let me rephrase that.
Dead wrong.
Losing the rudder would not generally cause an aircraft to crash on take-off (or at any other time). Losing a rudder would only impact the aircraft’s turning ability,
Unfortunately they didn’t lose just the rudder. They lost the entire vertical stabilizer, hence no or very little lateral control, besides being fly by wire, which might have been of some value had the computer been programmed to compensate for the loss which I’m betting was never thought of.
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