Tatarstan flight 363 , crashed while landing

17 November 2013

Tatarstan flight 363, Boeing 737-500 registration VQ-BBN from Moscow Domodedovo to Kazan Russia with 44 passengers and 6 crew members while was attempting to land to Kazan airport on runway 29 crashed at 19.25 local time.Airplane caught fire and all people on board were killed.Airplane completely destroyed

Airplane it was approaching airport for second time when it crashed landed between the runway and taxiway

Observers reported that airplane tried to go around but hit nose on runway or near runway made an explosion and caught fire

Russia's Ministry of Emergency reported that airplane tried to land many times and when landed fuel tank exploded

Some airport sources reported that pilot 4 km from the runway reported a "no landing position" and was going around when crashed.Some other reported that airplane had unstabilized approach control tower informed them and on final the crew reported "unstabilized, going around" and after crashed

On 18 November 2013 the MAK(Interstate Aviation Committee) reported that both flight recorder and voice recorder recovered but both they have significant damage.

On 18 November 2013 Rosaviatsia reported that airplane collided with ground between the runway and main taxiway killing all on board.

On 19 November 2013 the MAK reported preliminary data from flight data recorder.During the approach the crew didn't follow the standard approach scheme and considering the approach "unstable" requested a go-around from tower.The crew disconnected the autopilot and the entire flight it was in manual mode.The crew set thrust to take off power, reduce flaps from 30 to 15 and airplane began to climb with nose to pitched up 25^owhile speed began to decrease.Airspeed reduced from 150knts to 125 knts when only after that the crew began to lower the nose.Airplane it was at 700m/2300 feet height and until this moment the angle of attack it was not out of airplane's limit.After that airplane began a intensive dive with pitch 75^o down airplane reached speed 450km/h(240knts) until impacted the ground after 20 sec.Engines were working normal all the time and not some other malfunction recorded.Cockpit voice recorder was missing after they opened the container so searching it is continuing

On 20 November 2013 the MAK reported that they found the cockpit voice recorder

On 28 November 2013 the MAK reported that the cockpit voice recorder has been read out and voices have been identified.Also reported that except captain and F/O nobody else was inside cockpit(they mention this because in Russian media appeared that inside cockpit it was and a third person not crew member at the time of accident)

At the time of accident it was winds 15knts gusting to 23knts light rain and visibility 5000m

Metars:

UWKD 171500Z 23009G12MPS 9999 -RASN OVC008 03/02 Q0994 R29/2/0055 NOSIG RMK QFE735/0980
UWKD 171530Z 23008G11MPS 5000 -RASN OVC007 03/03 Q0993 R29/2/0055 NOSIG RMK QFE734/0979

VQ-BBN