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✈️🇦🇿 Сaliber: As details emerge about the final minutes of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, which crashed in Aktau on Wednesday, more and more experts are calling the plane's crew "heroes." According to experts, the pilots and flight attendants, who did everything possible to save passengers until the very end, played a decisive role.
The aircraft's commander, Igor Kshnyakin, had more than 15,000 hours of flight experience, including 11,200 hours as a crew captain.
According to experts, the captain and co-pilot Alexander Kalyaninov demonstrated astonishing piloting skills, managing to ferry the damaged plane across the Caspian Sea and make an emergency landing just 3 kilometers from the runway of Aktau airport.
❗️Based on video footage from the crash site and the plane's wreckage, aviation experts concluded that the Embraer 190's left horizontal stabilizer was apparently punctured by shrapnel and the plane lost most of its hydraulic systems, including the steering.
Before the crash, the AZAL pilots demonstrated a phugoid movement, which can only be explained by the loss of control hydraulics: this is when pilots try to control the plane solely using the engines, writes the AZERBAIJANI ARMED FORCES channel
It looks like the Embraer 190 lost pressure in all three hydraulic circuits. They are all in the tail section of the plane. It looks like the crew did everything they could to keep the plane flying and make a nearly impossible landing. Hell, they almost made it to the runway but lost control on final approach. It's crazy that people survived at all.
The Embraer 190's final leg is reminiscent of United Airlines Flight 232, known as the Sioux City DC-10 disaster. That plane also lost control in 1989 after its rear engine disintegrated and a pair of hydraulic lines failed.
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