Air traffic control in neighboring Novokuznetsk was expecting for a position update from the aircraft by radio transmission at 00:59.
But the jet ceased showing up on their radar screens, thus they never received one. It turns out that Flight 593 crashed in the Kuznetsk Alatau Mountain range.
The Kemerovo Oblast area of southern Russia at 00:58, approximately two minutes and six seconds after the events began, at a level height and a high vertical speed, believed to be around 160 mph.
Everyone on board was killed when the plane was destroyed. When a leaked copy of the cockpit voice recorder transcript surfaced.
Aeroflot was compelled to alter its version of events, even though it had previously denied that the pilots were at fault.
