![]() Christians and Muslims live side by side in peace, and street signs provide directions in both Russian and Tatar. (Russia Trek)Įight hundred kilometers east of Moscow lies the Republic of Tatarstan, an autonomous federal subject of Russia with its own rich history, culture, and language. The Kazan Kremlin overlooks the center of Kazan alongside an arm of the Volga River. Indeed, the story of the crash of Tatarstan Airlines flight 363 reaches to the very core of the Russian aviation industry - and to the foundations of Russian civil society itself. But the findings set off a fight between investigators and regulators, who insisted that the crash was caused by a mechanical failure of the 737, forever muddying the waters in an apparent attempt to deflect blame from the authorities who created the conditions behind the tragic accident. Behind it all was a tangled web of bureaucratic rubber-stamping, corrupt agencies, and financial debts, a fundamentally broken system that investigators blamed for the crash. His license was of questionable authenticity and the training provided by the airline was woefully inadequate. This was the first time the captain had ever conducted a go-around during a real flight, and in fact he was not properly qualified to fly the Boeing 737 at all. Investigators would find that answers lay not in the smoldering pile of wreckage, but in the troubled history of the flight crew and the airline that employed them. But as the Boeing 737 climbed away from the runway, it pitched steeply upward, then turned over into a near-vertical dive, plummeting 2,000 feet in a matter of seconds before slamming into the ground with a massive explosion. On the 17th of November 2013, the crew of a Russian airliner on approach to the city of Kazan decided to abandon an unstable approach and go around for another attempt. Security camera footage captured the moment Tatarstan Airlines flight 363 nosedived into the ground next to the runway at Kazan International Airport. ![]()
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