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Shortly after midnight, passengers of Aeroflot Nord flight 821 to Perm gathered at the Moscow airport. Aeroflot Nord was a regional airline belonging to Aeroflot and did not stand out visually from the main airline. The planned flight was to last about two hours. The plane that the passengers of the ill-fated flight boarded was a Boeing 737 Classic version 500, this aircraft had not been in Aeroflot since new and the aircraft, manufactured in 1992, flew mainly in China. The Boeing had only joined the Russian airline 5 months earlier. Takeoff and ascent went without any problems, the flight that day was calm, the pilots did not encounter any significant turbulence on the way and at about 5 a.m., they began to lower the flight altitude to reach the regional airport in Perm. On September 14, 2008, it was to become Russian history. Recording from the simulator: • How a Drunk Pilot Crashed this Boeing...