Yakutia B738 near Moscow on Jun 4th 2014, Interfax report lightning strike
Last Update: June 4, 2014 / 20:44:49 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jun 4, 2014
Classification
News
Airline
Yakutia Airlines
Flight number
R3-801
Departure
Moscow Vnukovo, Russia
Destination
Simferopol, Ukraine
Aircraft Registration
VQ-BMW
Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800
ICAO Type Designator
B738
Vnukovo Airport stated, confirmed by radar data, this report was a "clear duck" (in plain English: hoax or canard) and continued the news agency got it wrong.
Interfax subsequently changed to report the returning flight R3-802 was struck by lightning on approach to Vnukovo and received that damage. The only problem with this: VQ-BMW departed for its next scheduled flight R3-474 to Yakutsk about 2 hours later.
Even if Interfax now changes their report to say, the occurrence was on Jun 3rd: VQ-BMP flew both R3-801 and R3-802 on time and departed for R3-478 to Yakutsk about 80 minutes after landing in Vnukovo as flight R3-802.
It is interesting to note that a number of specialist "aviation media" copied, pasted and translated the various versions of Interfax as their own reports without any cross check or verification of the original story.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jun 4, 2014
Classification
News
Airline
Yakutia Airlines
Flight number
R3-801
Departure
Moscow Vnukovo, Russia
Destination
Simferopol, Ukraine
Aircraft Registration
VQ-BMW
Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800
ICAO Type Designator
B738
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