A crane lifts the damaged Sukhoi SSJ100 aircraft of Aeroflot Airlines in Sheremetyevo airport, outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 6, 2019. Russian emergency workers have recovered 41 bodies and two flight recorders from the wreckage of the plane that caught fire during an emergency landing in Moscow, officials said Monday as they sought to discover the cause of the disaster.
MOSCOW — A survivor of the Russian commercial airliner that crash-landed in Moscow on Sunday, killing 41 people, says a flash of lightning was heard moments before the plane began its emergency descent. Investigators are still working to understand what happened to cause the plane to ignite in a fireball upon landing. A lightning strike is one theory.
Dmitry Kharinin, an engineer and resident of Volgograd told a local news outlet Tuesday that he saw the lightning: “It was very strong, and could be heard throughout the cabin.” Kharinin says he did not witness a direct lightning strike on the Russian-made Sukhoi SSJ100. However, he speculates that the electromagnetic discharge of the lightning may have disabled plane systems.
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You mean a flash of lightning was seen
The plane lost communications due to the lightning strike. It caught fire when it hit the tarmac. Planes get struck by lightning often during storms. The lightning did not cause the fire.
Pilots watch out for that lightning
I ‘heard’ lightening once right outside my window but it was simultaneous with a thunderclap that left my ears ringing for a day. My arm hairs were on edge too.
Lightning! Not software as in Boeing 737 Max! Still no buyers for Russian planes! U.S sanctions on Russia that take bread away from Russian labor! Blame Russian poor living standards on America. I believe every one of us has right to eat! Not just Americans & Israelis!
They are just putting a spin on this,lightning my ass.These 41 survivors must have been told by the Russian authority what to say,just like the WH staffers being coached on what to say!!!
How do you hear lightning? I am very interested in this.
lightning will not bring down this kind of plane. This was either a terror attack or an assassination attempt.
Maybe it was a missile?
Question: Other comparable modern airliners incapacitated and crashed due to lightning? There is more to this.
Hmm could be Thor or Zeus but the list has definitely narrowed
I think they heard the thunder or saw the lightning...
They must’ve seen the thunder then.
Were those people from lost on it
He heard lightning, huh? Amazing.
So is this an anomaly or is lightening taking down planes now? GravityWins
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