Air Force Commander Gen. Col Strelnikov and Commander Onyshenko were dismissed. The flights ground control leader was jailed for criminal negligence.
The official accident investigation concluded that the cause was ‘pilot error’ and the failure of officials to plan and execute the show in a safe manner.
Whilst technical failure was rejected, from video footage, it certainly appears that the aircraft suffered a compressor stall on the port side during a tight left turn which torqued the aircraft around, nose-down. This followed by strong positive pitch input during recovery which over-rotated the aircraft. Basically, they had insufficient height to recover from an engine stall, if this is what occured.
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