Looks like it didn’t have any hydraulics and if you seen the videos you can’t hear the engines, also reports of bird strike guess we know in few years when it’s an episode of air crash investigation.
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Don’t forget BA has a bigger budget though and got Boeing to fix it.
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More info from FR24.
Given the detailed path and rapidly varying altitude and speed, I wonder if some control surfaces failed, and they had to compensate with engine power and trim for direction and altitude.
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true
tbh it is so sad that some people died on that flight on a day of global reunion. Fly high 
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Last bit of info I’ll post, then I’ll leave it to the news and further investigation, especially due to the sensitive nature of this revelation. This was a close up video of the tail section (where the survivors were). This is text book shrapnel, likely from anti-aircraft fire. The region of Russia it was near and the GPS jamming/spoofing support as much. Also… wouldn’t be the first time 
My thoughts go out to all those affected. And even if it was how it appears to be, let’s please remember this is a forum for WOA, and we are inclusive of everyone.
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Well I can only theorise as I’m no expert what I’m thinking is that it got a bird strike (according to sky news) this strike then caused the shrapnel to damage the plane. Then either due to lack of thrust or loss of controls due to the shrapnel it entered a phugoid cycle (similar to JAL 123) judging by the FR24 data, at one point even gaining 3000 ft in one minute after falling to 250 ft.
Phugoid cycle seen below:
Regardless my condolences go out to those affected in this incident
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I wouldn’t talk about that stuff on the forum, especially since they’re fairly baseless comments. We only shared what news had relayed and some speculation the news is already confirming. Just for your awareness, it had the wobbly flight path for over 70 minutes. That’s not pilots fighting. Now that we’ve all shared the information and your comment was inappropriate for the forum, please remove it and wait for investigation before we discuss the crash further (if at all). Again, this is a WOA forum.
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AZAL’s statement after the disaster. “External interference” and 38 victims
Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) has confirmed in an official statement the deaths of 38 passengers on a flight that was heading from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russian Chechnya, and crashed near Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan. Twenty-nine passengers survived. The cause of the crash was “external physical and technical interference.”
The majority of the passengers on flight J2-8243, operated by the narrow-body Embraer 190, were Azerbaijani citizens. In addition to them, there were sixteen Russians on board the Brazilian manufacturer’s aircraft, as well as several citizens of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. A few days after the disaster, the Azerbaijani Civil Aviation Agency decided to suspend flights from Baku to another seven Russian cities, specifically Mineralnye Vody, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saratov, Ufa and Volgograd, from 28 December this year. Earlier, on 25 December, AZAL also suspended flights to Grozny and Makhachkala, the capital of Russian Dagestan.
Euronews reported on 26 December, based on confirmation from the Azerbaijani authorities, that the cause of the crash of the Embraer 190 of the AZAL airline was a Russian surface-to-air missile. Decision-makers from Baku are demanding an apology from Russia and compensation for the families of the victims, but at the same time they have rejected the offer offered by Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the Chechens imposed by the Kremlin. Russian media reported immediately after the incident that the cause of the crash of the narrow-body passenger plane AZAL was… a collision of the plane with a flock of birds.
Zulfugar Asadov, one of the cabin crew members who survived the crash, even claims that the plane was hit three times. “Due to the fog, we could not land in the dangerous fog and after three laps over the city, we decided to continue the flight in a different direction. At that moment, we heard the sound of the impact. I and Aidan Khanum, the other cabin crew member, left the cabin to calm the passengers, but then I felt a second impact and was seriously injured in the arm. Then the third impact occurred,” Asadov told Azerbaijani Press Agency (APA).
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I don’t see anything suggesting bug there, but it can be just me…
What is wrong with it?
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How exactly is an Emirates 777 being used to operate a revenue earning flight in reality a bug?
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Perhaps OP means because it’s a B77L instead of a B77W? Otherwise I don’t see anything lol
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But how’s it a bug?? They use the 777-200LR
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Don’t think the devs would be able to fix what aircraft type Emirates send to Kuwait. 
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That’s a stretch. Emirates use the LR often times when they open new routes or capacity needs arise, they don’t have many of them, but it’s valid and not an issue.
Also not sure what this has to do with the game?
Probably needs to be in the real life aviation thread
They have 10 of them to be exact.
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A jeju b737 800 carshed 179 dead 2 Survivors
Yes Another crash we had one like few days ago
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This is getting bad…
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There was around 180 people on the plane i hope they find more Survivors
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:Update 62 now dead
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