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Comment: It was a collapsed nose landing gear.
The Aeroflot A321 jet, which was flying from Moscow, had seven crew members and 164 passengers. It stopped 150 meters away from the runway, Ruptly video agency reports. Emergency slides were used to evacuate the passengers. Following the incident, three people required medical help.
The local transport prosecution office has launched a probe into the cause of the crash-landing, an official statement on their website stated. There is no equipment to evacuate the A321 plane, and the airport remains closed, a source in the emergency services told TASS news agency. "In other, better-equipped airports, the plane evacuation process takes from 40 minutes to three hours."
Maria Shatokhina, who was on board the plane, shared with RT her account of what happened, and how she felt. "The landing was okay and on time, some passengers even started applauding. Then, the plane started shaking really hard, and it started to veer off to the left. I was near the window, on row 17, near the wing. We stopped, and then the smoke appeared inside the aircraft. Many people - most of them children - were crying. One boy, just behind me, was telling his mother, 'Mum, it's fine, calm down, don't cry!'
"Everyone stood up, there was no panic and no shouting. The only thing I heard was, 'evacuation.' Then, I got out to the inflatable slide. I saw an engine and the cockpit just lying on the ground, I became really scared. It could all have exploded. I'm shaking with fear even now."
all the time, especially with the front landing gear. Either the hydraulic system might fail, or the electronics controlling the nose landing gear might not work (the second has happened to me after landing. The pilots asked for towing assistance from the airport personnel but in the mean time they fixed the problem themselves by resetting computers on the controls). A U.S. navy pilot was trying to land a British Harrier vertically on an aircraft without the front landing gear. It wouldn't deploy. What happened was a bit funny because the crew on the deck provided him with a pod, something like an armchair and then they disappeared (lol). After the pilot placed the nose of the aircraft on the pod they reappeared.
And here's something not so funny. When NASA lost the second space shuttle the crew understood that there was something wrong during reentry when the hydraulic pressure on the nose's landing gear was not on the correct level. In fact that shuttle was doomed immediately after take off as those heat resistant tiles fell off. The aluminum structure would be exposed to heat on reentry. In NASA HQ they knew that both crew and ship were doomed, but tell them what ? You are going to die on reentry. None of them had either the training or the tools to fix the problem while in space.