Pilot: Lightning causes deadly Aeroflot crash
(VOVWORLD) - Pilot Denis Yevdokimov told Russian media on Monday that the Sukhoi Superjet-100 lost communication and needed to switch to emergency control mode because of lightning during an Aeroflot flight to Murmansk.
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 The Aeroflot aircraft bursts into flames on May 6, 2019 after making an emergency landing at Moscow's busiest airport, killing 41 people.
(Photo: Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters)
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He said the pilots managed to restore radio communication on an emergency frequency, but the link was only for a short time and kept cutting out.
Russian Transport Minister Yevgeny Dietrich said 41 bodies were recovered after the crash. 33 passengers survived the incident.