A wing was lost in flight and found thousands of feet from the location of the wreckage.

Aircraft owner Timothy Dean Carter of Portland and commercial pilot Jeff Earl Kropf of Halsey were killed in the crash.

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The Flight Data recorder is believed to be at a depth of 500 meters under rock and debris on the rockface, making the recovery tricky.

No answers have been found why the pilots requested to descend to 6,000 feet from an altitude of 10,000 feet, while flying above a 6000+ mountain in heavy cloud cover. The pilot was an experienced pilot but had not flown in this area and may not have been intimately familiar with the topography. Was he planning on buzzing the peaks, or was the plane in trouble? The black boxes will contain the answer.

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What: Transaero en route from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk
Where: Moscow
When: March 26, 2012
Why: The Transaero flight was not yet underway but passengers were on board when it was discovered that there was an inspection panel missing from the engine.

The flight was delayed as passengers disembarked. After a couple of hours, the flight took off without the inspection panel. The missing panel was misreported as a hole in the engine.

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