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The final selfie: Passenger aboard doomed FlyDubai flight posted image of herself minutes before plane took off… as 3D reconstruction reveals how horrendous winds threw jet around the sky

Make-up artist Anna Sergeeva, 25, took picture while onboard doomed jet
It was taken hours before the flight came down near Rostov-On-Don airport
Comes as 3D footage emerged showing how winds threw plane around

Published: 16:42 GMT, 21 March 2016 | Updated: 20:57 GMT, 21 March 2016

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This is the final selfie a young passenger posted online as she took her seat aboard the doomed FlyDubai jet which crashed in southern Russia amid fierce winds.

Russian make-up artist Anna Sergeeva, 25, smiled into her smartphone camera just hours before the flight from Dubai came down near Rostov-On-Don airport killing all 62 on board.

The image comes as chilling 3D footage emerged showing how horrendous winds threw Flight FZ981 around the sky moments before the crash.

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This is the final selfie a young passenger posted online as she took her seat aboard the doomed FlyDubai jet which crashed in southern Russia amid fierce winds

Chilling 3D footage emerged showing how horrendous winds threw Flight FZ981 around the sky moments before the crash.

The plane nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball before dawn on Saturday on the runway of the Rostov-on-Don airport after trying to land for a second time in strong wind

Miss Sergeeva had been working a a beautician in Dubai for the last six months but she had told friends months ago how she was going home for one week.

Her friend Karina said: 'Anna lived in Dubai for the last six months working to support her mother and 11-year-old brother, who live in Kharkiv.'

Meanwhile, a 3d video had emerged showing the Boeing 737-800 plane pitching as it approaches the runway. The reconstruction was aired by Life News but it is not clear where it originally came from.

It shows the plane in difficult during its descent and the moment it struck the runway before bursting into flames.

Russian make-up artist Anna Sergeeva, 25, smiled into her smartphone camera just hours before the flight from Dubai came down near Rostov-On-Don airport killing all 62 on board

Miss Sergeeva had been working a a beautician in Dubai for the last six months but she had told friends months ago how she was going home for one week

Her friend said: 'Anna lived in Dubai for the last six months working to support her mother and 11-year-old brother, who live in Kharkiv'

Russian make-up artist Anna Sergeeva, 25, had been living in Dubai before telling friends she was going home for a week

Today a top Russian aviation official said it was going to be very difficult to extract data from the FlyDubai plane, hampering the investigation into the tragedy.

Sergei Zaiko, deputy chairman of Russia's Inter-State Aviation Committee which is investigating the Saturday crash, raised doubts about the plane's black boxes.

He told Russian state television that the black boxes from the Boeing 737-800 were damaged to the point that the experts could not immediately read the data.

He said, however, that they have copied data from the data recorder and have yet to do that for the voice recorder. Once it's done, the experts will see if they can extract the data, he said.

Meanwhile, a 3d video had emerged showing the Boeing 737-800 plane pitching as it approaches the runway

It shows the plane in difficult during its descent and the moment it struck the runway before bursting into flames

'In favorable circumstances, we will get preliminary results in a month,' Zaiko said.

The plane nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball before dawn on Saturday on the runway of the Rostov-on-Don airport after trying to land for a second time in strong winds.

Flights to Rostov-on-Don resumed Monday morning after intensive work to remove the wreckage of the pulverized plane and repair damage to the runway from the crash, which left a large crater.

The cause of the crash is not known but several planes had trouble landing at the airport due to strong winds at the time of the crash.

Most of the passengers were Russian holiday-makers.