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They had talked about replacing this plane, but, of course, with a newer plane, but that has not happened because of financial problems. the plane was about 20 years old. it got a major refit of avionics, engines, everything back in december. thats the aircraft that we know they were flying on today. however, what we also know is that as the plane was coming in to land at molensk airport in the western part of russia, the plane was below the glide path, and according to air traffic control, was ...

Apparently air traffic controllers did advise the pilots that their vet cal rate of descent was too fast and they were now flying below the glide path. despite being warned about this, they also then, air traffic controllers instructed the pilots to abort of landing and head to a backup airport, possibly or probably because of fog. the only thing we know now is those instructions were either not received or certainly not followed. the plane continued that rapid rate of descent below the glide pa...