Moscow: Russian aviation investigators said Friday that the pilots of a flydubai jet that crashed and killed 62 last month put the plane into a nose-dive and were unable to pull out of it.
The Boeing 737 flying from Dubai crashed short of the runway in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don in the early hours of March 19 after it aborted a landing in poor weather.
Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee, which probes plane crashes, said in a preliminary report that the jet hit the ground at a speed of 600 kilometres per hour (370 miles per hour) after the pilots put the plane into a steep dive.
The accident came following the crew's decision to abort a landing and try to ascend, the committee said.
But at an altitude of 900 metres (2,950 feet), the pilot pushed the control column, or steering controls, back into a dive and "simultaneously" shifted a tail stabiliser "to dive, after which the plane went into a rapid descent."
"The crew's subsequent actions did not manage to prevent the plane from hitting the ground," said the committee, which investigates crashes, but does not assign legal responsibility for any wrongdoing.
08/04/16 AFP/Times of India
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The Boeing 737 flying from Dubai crashed short of the runway in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don in the early hours of March 19 after it aborted a landing in poor weather.
Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee, which probes plane crashes, said in a preliminary report that the jet hit the ground at a speed of 600 kilometres per hour (370 miles per hour) after the pilots put the plane into a steep dive.
The accident came following the crew's decision to abort a landing and try to ascend, the committee said.
But at an altitude of 900 metres (2,950 feet), the pilot pushed the control column, or steering controls, back into a dive and "simultaneously" shifted a tail stabiliser "to dive, after which the plane went into a rapid descent."
"The crew's subsequent actions did not manage to prevent the plane from hitting the ground," said the committee, which investigates crashes, but does not assign legal responsibility for any wrongdoing.
08/04/16 AFP/Times of India
