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Fly Dubai Boeing 737-800 Crashes in Russia
A Boeing 738 passenger jet crashed as it was landing at the Rostov-on-Don airport in southern Russia, the country's Southern Regional Emergency Center said Saturday. The plane, which had traveled from Dubai, had 55 people aboard, the Emergency Center said. It wasn't immediately clear if there were any survivors. Developing story - more to come (www.cnn.com) Altro...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Circled for 2 hours, then tried to land. Maybe low on fuel and forced to take a stab at it?
Odd. Reports say other inbound aircraft elected to divert to other airports
You have to wonder why they did not move on to another airport after an hour of circling.
Aborted first landing, went into circle pattern for an hour, before attempting second approach. My guess - ran out of time/fuel.
See my above post they had two hours of fuel when they departed the hold for their last attempt to land. Also they had called a missed approach and climb to 8000'. One can see the steep descent into the ground.
As further evidence the impact created a large explosion. From. That's right jet fuel
Still had 2 hours fuel
http://avherald.com/h?article=495997e2
URRR 190430Z 26008G15MPS 230V300 4600 -SHRA BKN010 BKN033CB OVC100 05/04 Q0997 RESHRA R22/290046 TEMPO 25017G25MPS 1000 SHRA BR SCT003 BKN020CB RMK QFE740/0987
landed 22
plenty of ceiling, quartering strong headwind. 5000+ hour pilots. The question at the front of my mind is was the descending hot spot just prior to explosion a landing light or an engine fire issue on go around. A single engine issue on go-around as light as they were shouldn't have been an issue but obviously something happened.
data recorder reportedly downloaded but CVR still being repaired and therefore still questionable.
URRR 190430Z 26008G15MPS 230V300 4600 -SHRA BKN010 BKN033CB OVC100 05/04 Q0997 RESHRA R22/290046 TEMPO 25017G25MPS 1000 SHRA BR SCT003 BKN020CB RMK QFE740/0987
landed 22
plenty of ceiling, quartering strong headwind. 5000+ hour pilots. The question at the front of my mind is was the descending hot spot just prior to explosion a landing light or an engine fire issue on go around. A single engine issue on go-around as light as they were shouldn't have been an issue but obviously something happened.
data recorder reportedly downloaded but CVR still being repaired and therefore still questionable.
Quite a bit of additional data reported about the flight here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flydubai_Flight_981
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flydubai_Flight_981
Thank you. It clears up many misconceptions including my own about fuel.