

These experts — the top test pilots, Tu-154 pilots — were given an impossible task: to somehow twist the facts in order to show that the flight parameters provided by MAK for the final phase of the flight, including the go-around maneuver, were entirely correct, and that the sole blame lay with the crew…
It should be noted that the attempt made by the aircraft commander to recover from the descent did result in a reduction of the vertical speed; however, due to insufficient altitude margin and the high rate of descent, this could not prevent the aircraft from colliding with a tree (a birch), which it struck with the left wing at an altitude of approximately 5 meters.

Note:
The altitude loss required for the Tu-154 aircraft to transition from descent to climb — under the flight parameters present at the time of the crash (i.e., speed of 280 km/h, vertical descent rate of 7.5–8 m/s), with a vertical acceleration of 1.3 g and assuming correct and timely crew actions — is approximately 30 meters.
And the pilots — the best, most experienced ones — wrote it almost by inertia
as it should result from the aerodynamic characteristics of the Tu-154M aircraft and the laws of physics.
Most likely, the internal Russian censorship within MAK let it slip unintentionally — failing to notice that the description provided by the expert pilots in their technical analysis did not align with the narrative of the official MAK report.
…The milk has been spilled.
The truth slipped through — and now it can’t be undone.

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