[5] The aircraft was landing at Samara Kurumoch Airport, when it touched down about 400 metres (1,300 ft; 440 yd) short of a runway in heavy fog, bouncing and flipping over.

Russia's interstate aviation committee MAK states a preliminary assessment shows both engines were operating up to the point of impact.

[12] According to the findings of the official MAK investigation,[13] the crash can be blamed on both the airport services, which did not inform the pilot about the reduced visibility in time due to organizational problems, and on the pilot, who did not give the dispatcher the correct information about his landing trajectory and, consequently, did not decide to stop the landing procedure and try to take another approach at the time he should have done so.

Within hours of the crash, UTair issued a statement saying that the aircraft had been in good technical condition and that foggy weather was likely to have caused the accident.

[citation needed] The captain and co-pilot of the aircraft were both tried at a regional court in Samara on charges of negligence causing the deaths of two or more people.