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Here's what happened on the fiery emergency landing in Russia that killed 41 people

Here's what happened on the fiery emergency landing in Russia that killed 41 people

Aeroflot Flight SU1492 is a daily scheduled flight from Moscow to the city of Murmansk inside the Arctic Circle. On Sunday, May 5, the flight was operated by a Sukhoi SuperJet 100, registration number RA-89098.

Aeroflot Flight 1492 took off from Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport on Sunday at 6:03 p.m. local time.

Five minutes into the flight, the SuperJet has turned north toward Murmansk and climbed to an altitude of 10,500 feet. It's unclear when the communications failure caused by lightning occurred. However, it's most likely to have happened before this point.

That's because the flight immediately turns back towards Sheremetyevo Airport and begins to descend.

The plane then spends roughly ten minutes descending while circling over Moscow as it comes in for a landing.

Video shows the jet bouncing violently down the runway at Sheremetyevo before the landing gear appears to collapse. The plane catches fire.

UPDATE: Aeroflot #SU1492 footage shows the Sukhoi Superjet bounced on initial touchdown followed by an even harder 2nd ground contact during which the undercarriage collapsed and a fire broke out. There is no visible fire before that point. pic.twitter.com/eIaqmJk8uC

— JACDEC (@JacdecNew) May 5, 2019

Video captured from inside the cabin show the plane's engines and wings engulfed in flames.

Пассажиры "Суперджета" сняли пожар на борту во время посадки.

Видео – ад. pic.twitter.com/fPkNZiYCqa

— baza (@bazabazon) May 5, 2019

Subsequent video shows the fire growing quickly as the crew stops the plane on the runway.

Video of the Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 emergency landing in Moscow SVO#Russia #Aeroflot pic.twitter.com/6BTZeCCq6V

— CNW (@ConflictsW) May 5, 2019

Once the plane came to a stop, flight attendant Tatyana Kasatkina opened the emergency exits at the front of the aircraft. "When the plane stopped, the evacuation immediately began," she told the London Evening Standard. "I kicked the door out with my leg and pushed out the passengers so as not to slow the evacuation."

Unfortunately, 40 of the 73 passengers died on the flight. Flight attendant Maksim Moiseev died trying to evacuate passengers from the back of the plane.

Source: NPR.

Some of the surviving passengers have been criticized for taking their carry-on luggage with them during the evacuation, wasting precious time that may have saved the lives of others on the plane.

Click here to read more about Tatyana Kasatkina's heroism »

Firefighters were eventually able to douse the flames with fire-retardant foam.

Source: Euronews.

But the damage was done. The intense heat from the fire had melted the jet's fuselage.

According to Russian news agency Tass, Flight SU1492's black boxes have been recovered and an investigation led by Yevgeny Ditrikh, Russia's Transport Minister, is underway.