What happened: the plane made an emergency landing and caught fire
Where: Sheremetyevo Airport
Flight number: SU1492 (Aeroflot) Moscow - Murmansk
How many people were on board: 73 passengers and five crew members
How many dead: 41 people
Hot line of the Ministry of Emergencies: 8 800 775 17 17
Hot line Sheremetyevo: 8 495 232 65 40
Shortly after the departure from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Murmansk, Aeroflot flight SU 1492 caught fire and requested an emergency landing. The liner landed and managed to throw away the life lamps. Are there any victims among passengers is unknown.
According to unconfirmed Baza reports , there were 76 people aboard, of whom 36 were saved.
Now the 360 channel reports that there were 78 people aboard and they were evacuated all.
A source of Interfax said that six people received burns and injuries when landing Aeroflot flight. At the same time, it is reported that the sunbathing liner is already extinguished. RIA Novosti also writes about six victims.
The video shows that part of the fuel spilled during planting and burned in the strip.
Sources of TASS and BAZA said that the fire began in one of the engines. Moreover, TASS writes that the fire could begin due to the lightning engine.
Here's how the Board of Aeroflot took off, immediately turned back to the airport, made one circle and went on landing.
The source of Interfax admitted that people could die as a result of an emergency landing. There are no more specific data yet.
Another version of the fire from the RIA Novosti source . He believes that the wiring caught fire on board. What could have caused is not specified. At the same time, RIA writes that there were 72 people aboard, and not 78, as 360 previously reported.
Interfax: After taking off, the SU1492 pilot gave a distress signal and sat down already without contact with dispatchers.
Planting a tanned liner.
Telegram channels 112 and Mash write about ten dead as a result of emergency landing. There is no confirmation of this information in other sources.
Interfax writes that the number of victims exceeded ten people. Information about the dead is also cited by the Moscow Agency.
Flight chronology :
TASS, citing an unnamed source, so far writes only one deceased. BAZA reports already about 12 dead.
Domodedovo Airport is ready to accept flights that were sent to Sheremetyevo, Interfax reports with reference to the press service.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the fact of an emergency landing of Aeroflot aircraft, Interfax reports. For which article the case was initiated, it is not specified.
The case was opened in the third part of Article 263 of the Criminal Code - violation of the rules of traffic safety and the operation of air transport, which entailed the death of two or more people.
“The tail is completely destroyed. Rescuers are trying to get to the back rows of seats through the refined metal, where the victims can be, ”Interfax quotes the source in emergency services.
"MBH Media" with reference to a source at the airport writes that 10 passengers and flight attendant were killed.
The Investigative Committee published a video of the first minutes after landing.
SK said that so far it is known about one deceased and four victims who turned for help, Interfax reports. The Ministry of Health of the Moscow Region reports two victims.
According to TASS, the crew of Sukhoi Superjet 100 villed that lightning had got into the plane.
Data on the victims vary depending on the departments:
The SK website reports that the case was initiated under an article on the death of two or more persons, but at the same time it is said that information is only about one deceased.
Sheremetyevo Airport is still closed - does not accept and does not produce aircraft. According to TASS, now on the flight field of at least six ambulances.
“The main version is a lightning strike on the plane, after which automation refused. When landing, according to preliminary data, the plane twice hit the runway. The entry of lightning also confirmed one of the crew members, ”TASS quotes the word source in emergency services.
Aeroflot specified that the engines of the aircraft caught fire after landing. A source of Interfax explained that the aircraft, trying to sit down, hit the strip three times, because of which the chassis came off and got into the engine.
Domodedovo airport has already accepted ten sides instead of Sheremetyevo.
Interfax writes that the liner pilots survived during an emergency landing. A state commission will be created to investigate what happened.
Apparently, the work of Sheremetyevo is partially restored.
The Interfax source said that after evacuation, passengers began to scatter in a panic across the flight field. Therefore, the number of dead has not yet been established.
“Judging by the signs that it was not the engine, but the electrical wiring, it was already landing in burning form, it is likely that the thunderstorm could cause. Since there were thunderstorm clouds up to 9-10 thousand meters high, ”the leading employee of the Fobos meteorological center Evgeny Tishkovets commented on the plane crash.
The company "Sukhoi" commented on the incident. According to the manufacturer, the SSJ 100 was completely burned out. The board was released in August 2017 and passed the latest maintenance in April 2019.

The first channel in the Sunday issue of the Time program at 21:00 (two and a half hours after the disaster) spoke about what happened only in the fifth minute - after the plot of Venezuela. The disorder about the disaster took about one and a half minutes.
According to Russia 1, the film "Galina" is underway (the reader of "Medusa" said that the disaster was mentioned at the end of the release of "Vesti" at 20:00). On NTV - the series "Lawyers" .
Data of the Ministry of Health of the Moscow Region: 11 people were injured, three of which were hospitalized.
The Ministry of Emergencies opened a hot line after a plane crash in Sheremetyevo:
“Moscow says” : the evacuation of passengers from the plane took 55 seconds, the pilots left the plane last.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that President Vladimir Putin has already been reported to the disaster and "about the first numbers for human casualties." The head of state ordered assistance to all those in need.
One of the passengers Peter Egorov told KP what was happening after takeoff: “We took off, and lightning hit the plane. The board turned around, there was a hard landing. We almost lost consciousness from fear. The plane jumped on the take -off, like a grasshopper and caught fire on the ground. Now nothing is clear to us, the Ministry of Emergencies and doctors are running around, weaving all sedative. ”
The editor -in -chief of RT Margarita Simonyan wrote that their sources confirm the death of one of the flight attendants who saved passengers. Telegram channel 112 claims that the deceased sidewoman was called Maxim Moiseev. According to RT, Moiseev worked in the tail, where there was a strong smoke.
The airport of Nizhny Novgorod has already accepted 20 flights, which were sent to Sheremetyevo, Interfax reports. Including three international flights.
The sister of the flight attendant Maxim Moiseeva said “Says Moscow” that he is alive, like the rest of the cabin crew. Earlier, RT reported that the flight attendant died, saving passengers.
“During the first attempt to land the plane, the aircraft was too high, and he could not land. With a repeated attempt, all automatic control systems that ensure landing refused, ”Interfax quotes the words of the source in Sheremetyevo.
Soon after departure on board SSJ 100, radio communications refused, the source of Interfax said. The crew reported this to Earth through the emergency channel, but then he refused. After that, the pilots began to plant a plane manually, as electronic control and automation systems also stopped working.
Video from the SSJ 100 interior, where a fire is visible in one of the engines.
Attention. The record shows how a disaster occurs in which people died.
Another record, where you can see how the plane hit his tail against the runway during landing and caught fire.
The representative of Aeroflot Maxim Fetisov told Interfax that the commander of the emergency landing SSJ 100 had a raid of 1400 hours on this type of aircraft. In total, the pilot flew 6800 hours.
Aeroflot also noted that the evacuation of passengers took 55 seconds. The standard for an emergency is 90 seconds.
On board the sunbathing liner was the mayor of the closed city of Severomorsk Vladimir Evmenkov, they told Interfax in the Committee for the Safety of the Commerce Population. Evmenkov is alive, but was poisoned by combustion products, added to the committee.
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