Flydubai Flight 981

What happened in the 2013 crash?
... After passing the missed approach point the crew discussed a go-around and communicated with dispatch, then disengaged both autopilots engaged in the automatic approach and continued manually on flight director. Engines accelerated to 83% N1 (near Go-Around Thrust) and continued at that speed until almost impact. The aircraft began to pitch up under the influence of engine acceleration and flaps retraction reaching 25 degrees nose up, the stabilizer trim system wound - most likely automatically - nose down commanding the aircraft into a dive. In the meantime the crew retracted the gear, there had been no input on the yoke since deactivation of autopilot until that time, the airspeed had decayed from 150 to 125 KIAS. The crew now applied full forward pressure, the aircraft began to accelerate again after reaching a minimum speed of 117 KIAS at 700 meters/2300 feet above the runway, and began to rapidly descent, EGPWS alerts "SINK RATE" and "PULL UP" sounded, there was no reaction to the extreme nose down attitude however and the vertical acceleration became negative. The aircraft impacted ground at 75 degrees nose down at about 450 kph at coordinates N55.608818 E49.276852, the impact occurred 45 seconds after initiating the go-around and 20 seconds after reaching the maximum height...
 
The Tartarstan crash makes no sense, just push the nose down and fly it straight into the ground....
 
The following image, indicates the aircraft had climbed, and was level at 4000' AFTER the Goaround

Then, descent rates increased to as much as 21000fpm before impact.

Very confusing information, if they commenced a go-around and were level at 4000 feet how did they end up crashing on the runway, unless they initiated the Goaround very early...
 

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If I'm reading correctly it sounds like the crash today they might have had a tail strike on the first landing attempt
 
The article I picked up this morning is citing wind. No one actually says "wind shear" but it's alluded to by a number of the people interviewed for the article.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/flydubai-flight-981-plane-crash-russia-cause-dubai-airliner-nosedive/

From the article:
According to the weather data reported by Russian state television, winds at the moment of the crash at an altitude of 1,640 feet and higher were around 67 miles per hour.

Ian Petchenik, a spokesman for the flight-tracking website Flightradar24, told The Associated Press that the plane missed its approach then entered a holding pattern.

According to Flightradar24, the plane circled for about two hours before making another attempt to land. It said a Russian Aeroflot plane scheduled to land around the same time made three landing attempts but then diverted to another airport.

and...

Some Russian aviation experts said the steep descent appeared to indicate that the crash most probably have been caused by a gust of wind.

"It was an uncontrollable fall," said Sergei Kruglikov, a veteran Russian pilot, said on Russian state television. He said that a sudden change in wind speed and direction could have caused the wings to abruptly lose their lifting power.

Several planes had landed in Rostov-on-Don shortly before the Dubai airliner was scheduled to touch down, but other flights later were diverted.
 
That's a huge gust factor! I know I wouldn't try it if the winds were gusting to 64,800MPH.
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Um, I think your math is off. That's 24 Kts gusting 36 Kts approximately. ;)

Edit: just to clarify, mps is meters per second which is used in quite a bit of the world, and is approximately a 1 to 2 ratio to Knots. 1 mps=2 Kts.
 
Um, I think your math is off. That's 24 Kts gusting 36 Kts approximately. ;)

Edit: just to clarify, mps is meters per second which is used in quite a bit of the world, and is approximately a 1 to 2 ratio to Knots. 1 mps=2 Kts.

Eeet whas an un joooooke, brah.
Reference my reply to what's his screen name
 
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