Among them is 22-year-old Jeremy Brooks of New Mexico. Michelle Mark. Investigators are still working to understand what happened to cause the plane to ignite in a fireball upon landing. Russian plane crash survivor recalls lightning strike moments before descent ... 2019, shows a burnt-out Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger plane following an incident at … But dozens of others never made it out. His former boss told CBS News the recent college graduate was going to Russia to work as a fly-fishing guide.Be in the know.
The video is terrifying all around. The crash occurred on May 5, 2019. Forty-one people on board a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane were killed in May 2019, including two children, after the aircraft caught fire as it made a bumpy emergency landing at a Moscow airport, Russian investigators said. The aircraft burst into flames, trailed by smoke. The plane landed back in Moscow 27 minutes after it took off, and tragically 41 of the 78 people onboard died.