The similarity between the crash of the Embraer aircraft 190 Azerbaijani Airlines (AZAL), which performed the Baku-Grozes flight on December 25, and the emergency landing of the same type in Portugal in 2018, due to problems with management, attracts attention.
On board the Embraer 190 aircraft Azal, which broke up near Aktau (Kazakhstan), 67 people, including 5 crew members and 62 passengers.
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The Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan said that, according to the first data, 32 people survived in the disaster. On December 26, a one -day national mourning for those killed in a plane crash was announced in Azerbaijan.
According to one version, the passenger plane “crashed into a flock of birds.” Before the crash, the plane was redirected to the airport of the city of Makhachkala because of the fog at the destination.
– both aircraft disappeared from control
for a long time
In 2018, the Embraer 190 aircraft owned by the Kazakhstan Air Astana airline also made an emergency landing, faced with the problems of management in Portugal due to climatic conditions.
The message on the social network X, published by Flightradar 24, said that over the past 74 minutes of flight, the Kazakh plane has experienced more than 100 changes in height, on some sections of the route the signal with the plane was interrupted.
The crew announced a “emergency”, since the pilots could not maneuver “for a long time”, and the autopilot of the aircraft did not function.
A plane that flew from Portugal to the capital of Belarus Minsk, and then in Almaty (Kazakhstan), underwent “serious structural loads” due to sharp maneuvers and began to uncontrolledly rotate.
The pilots decided to “control the plane completely manually”, and the “flight control computer” was disabled. The aircraft also experienced problems with manual control, but made a successful landing. Although the plane landed safely, he was unable to avoid damage. During the investigation of the written -off aircraft, it turned out that the “cables of the alerons” were incorrectly connected.
– General information about Embraer aircraft
The company carried out the first supply of the Embraer E170 model on March 17, 2004 for the airline Lot Poland Airlines.
The Embraer E -Jet family is a series of narrow -fuselage two -engine jet aircraft of low and medium -range. The family includes models E170, E175, E190 and E195.
larger models of the E190 and E195 were commissioned at the end of 2004, and the E175, the elongated version of the E170, was launched in mid -2005. In total, 1695 aircraft of this family were released.
– E190 aircraft with a flight range of 4,537 km and the maximum capacity of 114 passengers
The E190 two -engine aircraft control 2 pilots, hold from 98 to 114 people, have a length of 36.25 meters, a height of 10.57 meters and can take off with a maximum weight of 51,800 kilograms.
The plane can fly at a maximum speed of 871 kilometers per hour at an altitude of 12 thousand meters. The cruising speed is 829 kilometers per hour.
At a maximum flight range of 4537 kilometers, the plane can take off from the runway of 2100 meters long and land on the runway 1244 meters long.