We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.
On the leg from Novosibirsk to Yakutsk, the hydraulic pressure on engine number 2 dropped. The captain decided to divert to Krasnoyarsk Airport for an emergency landing. The approach was completed in snow falls and during the last segment, the four engine airplane was too low and struck the ground 200 meters short of runway threshold then crashed and burned. There were no casualties but the aircraft was destroyed. Probable cause (official findings): The cause of the loss of hydraulic pressure o
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