May 6-Russian state television released photos of the cockpit and cabin of the Russian Airlines passenger plane after the fire for the first time on the 6th. The photo clearly shows the charred cockpit and cabin.
The Russian newspaper Izvestia quoted Alfred Malinovsky, vice chairman of the Russian Aircrew Union and meritorious flight worker of the Russian Federation, as saying that the plane caught fire before landing. The crew was unable to control the normal landing of the plane before landing.
If the lightning data are correct, the SSJ-100 is likely to have burned before landing, the cockpit is likely to be foggy and visibility is extremely low, he said.
According to previous news, on the afternoon of May 5, local time, a Russian Airlines passenger plane (SSJ-100) flying from Moscow to Murmansk returned due to a sudden failure and caught fire during an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo airport. A total of 41 of the 78 people on board were killed.
The cause of the crash was under investigation. Tas news agency reported that the cause of the accident may have been the plane was struck by lightning, lightning strike on the plane after the failure of automation equipment. On the same day, the plane took off 28 minutes after the airport "hard landing", landing when the landing gear broke, the engine caught fire. Another source said that the fire may have been caused by a failure of electrical equipment.