This is Why You NEVER Take Your Luggage From a Plane Crash
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
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Summary
On May 5th, 2019, Aeroflot Flight 1492 was scheduled to fly from Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow to Murmansk Airport, in Russia. With 73 passengers and 5 crew on board, the pilots completed their pre-flight checks and lined up on the runway. At 18:03 they took off and began their climb. It was a little bumpy, but they’d handled worse. 5 minutes later, however, a deafening boom rocked the entire plane. All of a sudden the plane jolted, the primary radio went dead, and the autopilot became inoperative. But it was ok – the pilots knew this was a minor electrical failure, nothing major. What they didn’t know though, was that in less than 30 minutes, the life of every passenger on board would be on the line. Not just because of what the pilots were about to do… oh no…. because of the dangerous decisions the passengers themselves made next.
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| 0:00.0 | On May 5th, 2019, Aeroflot Flight 1492 was scheduled to fly from Chermitevo Airport |
| 0:07.5 | Moscow to Murmansk Airport in Russia. With 73 passengers and five crew on board, the pilots |
| 0:14.4 | completed their pre-flight checks and lined up on the runway. At 1803, they took off and began their climb. It was a little bumpy, |
| 0:24.0 | but they'd handled worse. Five minutes later, however, a deafening boom rocked the entire plane. |
| 0:31.5 | All of a sudden, the plane jolted, the primary radio went dead, and the autopilot became |
| 0:37.1 | inoperative. But it was okay. The pilots the autopilot became inoperative. |
| 0:39.1 | But it was okay. The pilots knew this was a minor electrical failure. Nothing major. |
| 0:45.0 | What they didn't know, though, was that in less than 30 minutes, the life of every passenger on board would be on the line. |
| 0:53.0 | Not just because of what the pilots were about to do, oh no. |
| 0:56.0 | Because of the dangerous decisions the passengers themselves made next. |
| 1:02.0 | You're listening. You're listening. |
| 1:06.0 | You're listening. |
| 1:07.0 | You're be amazed. That figure out. That fateful day as they were lining up on the runway, Flight 1492 had found themselves facing towering cumulonimbus clouds, better known to me and you as thunderstorm clouds. |
| 1:25.6 | While passenger planes are designed to handle stormy conditions, pilots can request storm avoidance clearance, |
| 1:32.3 | a kind of navigational assistance given by air traffic controllers to help them avoid the worst of the turbulence and many electrical disturbances from lightning. |
| 1:41.3 | But Flight 1492 didn't request this, and instead took off with the intention to turn away from the storm once they were in the air. |
| 1:49.0 | As they climbed to 8,900 feet, lightning struck the plane. |
| 1:54.0 | The right-hand angle of attack sensor, right-hand ice detector, temperature probe, and upper sections of the fuselage were all damaged. |
| 2:02.6 | The radio and autopilot also cut out entirely. |
| 2:07.6 | The almighty crack of the lightning rocked the plane and had passengers clinging to their seats in terror. |
| 2:13.6 | But luckily, they were still airborne. |
| 2:16.6 | Without a moment to lose, the captain activated their secondary radio, restored communications |
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