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A plane crashing two minutes after take-off with a third of the Red Army Ensemble on board. It's a dreadful thing to happen.

There was an outbound Heathrow crash on Staines High Street decades ago, stalling after the pilot had a heart attack. Nothing else instantly springs to mind for comparison.

Losing so many musicians is awful.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38432800

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... eport-says

"Russian agencies said all possible reasons for the crash were being examined, but investigators believed terrorism was unlikely."
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The first report after the black boxes were found :-

Russia plane crash: Flight recorder 'reveals faulty wing flaps to blame' - BBC News
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That's either badly maintained or incorrectly set for takeoff. Neither is good. Either is better than sabotage.
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spot;1504668 wrote: That's either badly maintained or incorrectly set for takeoff. Neither is good. Either is better than sabotage.


Apparently not moving in sync with the controls or with each other
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All it did was land for fuel, nobody will have changed the hardware and it was airworthy for the first leg.

That voice recorder has tape in it, not digital storage.
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