Photos: Russian plane crash lands on Sunday killing 41 people

Dramatic new footage from the Moscow air disaster has revealed how the co-pilot climbed back into the burning plane via the escape slide to 'rescue the captain'.

Maxm Kuznetsov, 36, is seen fleeing the cockpit moments after the Aeroflot Sukhoi SuperJet made an emergency landing and burst into flames on Sunday. Yet after climbing down a rope to safety, the co-pilot fights off rescuers in hi-viz jackets to rush back up the emergency slide at the Sheremetyevo airport. Pilot Denis Evdokimov, 42, said yesterday: ‘The second pilot was the first to leave the cockpit, then I did.’ But he did not explain further how he exited the plane. The stricken plane had crash-landed on the runway with its tank full of unburned jet fuel after it was forced to turn back to Moscow when a lightning strike knocked out the plane's communications. Russian investigators are today probing why the lightning strike - described by experts as a fairly common occurrence - led to a disastrous crash-landing, which killed 41 people.