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Subscribe nowPreliminary data released by the USA’s National Transportation Safety Board indicates the incident Sikorsky UH-60 was flying around 300ft when it impacted a PSA Airlines regional jet – some 100ft above the altitude ceiling of 200ft for rotorcraft in the area.
Flight-data recorder traces from the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 illustrate the extent of damage with which the crew had to cope after the twinjet was crippled by an explosion in Russian airspace.
Kazakh investigators have revealed that an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 experienced two explosions about 25s apart, and lost pressure in all three hydraulic systems, after aborting an attempt to land at the Russian city of Grozny.
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