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(Reuters) -The Embraer executive jet that crashed in Russia, apparently with Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin onboard, has only recorded one accident in over 20 years of service, and that was due to mistakes by the crew rather than mechanical failure, according to website International Aviation HQ. Russian authorities said Prigozhin was listed as a passenger on a private jet that crashed on Wednesday evening, killing all those onboard. Russia's TASS news agency said the plane was a Brazilian Embraer jet.

So, when they do collide at that high velocity, there is total, typically total destruction of the aircraft. >> by the time radio contact is made at 4:53 p.m., the connection is so bad, the "legacy" pilot and controller can't understand each other. the planes are closing in. >> everybody was sort of dosing or working by hear and feel. bang! the loudest noise i ever heard. i was in vietnam and i've heard bombs, but just, bang! and every atom in my body i felt kind of implode. >> i've flown as a passenger a lot, and you go through all kinds of weather and all kinds of turbulence, and i've never ...

Anecdotal evidence that mull over the world, particularly in europe, of this transponder unit failing without any indication whatsoever in the cockpit that it had failed. >> components do fail. so, it's not that it's necessarily been turned to standby. it's a failure. >> in brazil, one air traffic controller described by the judge as unqualified and incompetent is acquitted. another controller is convicted of negligence. in its final report, brazil's ntsb equivalent acknowledges the failures of the brazilian controllers as well as the "legacy" pilots, stating that both parties should have beco...

Seconds. within 20 or 30 seconds. this plane disappeared in that sense for 50 minutes, not 20 or 30 seconds. >> within three minutes of the impact, the transponder is reactivated. but the legacy is now compromised. it needs to land soon. >> it's the longest 35 minutes i've ever spent in my life, you know, wondering, were we going to make it down safely, wondering with every turn, would they lose control of the airplane. >> the closest runway is an air space, literally a military airstrip in the middle of the jungle. as the pilots desperately try to get their plane there, it's a white-knuckle m...

The way they did. and if there's a fear of going to jail and that punitive action against them, then that's going to inhibit the information that we as investigators get. >> the criminalization of aircraft accident investigations is an impediment to safety. when you have situations where there is not a deliberate act, the key focus needs to be let's not have a reoccurrence of it. >> in may 2011, a federal judge in brazil acquits the "legacy" pilots of all charges but one, negative for not monitoring their transponder. the final terms of the sentence are pending, but it seems unlikely the pilot...