The genetic examination of the bodies of those killed in the Tu-154 plane crash in the Sochi region will be carried out by forensic experts of the Russian Ministry of Defense. This was announced by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

“A decision has been made to deliver all those killed in the Tu-154 plane crash of the Russian Ministry of Defense to Moscow for identification and genetic examination by specialists from the 111th Chief state center forensic and forensic examinations of the Russian Ministry of Defense, "- said Konashenkov at the briefing.

On the morning of December 25, information appeared that a Tu-154 aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Defense, flying from Sochi to the Khmeimim airbase, had disappeared from the radar.

Something extreme happened before the crash in Tu-154 - expert

The fall of the Tu-154 into the Black Sea immediately after takeoff from Adler airport could have been preceded by an extreme situation on board, which did not allow the crew to transmit a distress signal to the ground, said Vitaly Andreev, the former shift chief of the main center of the unified air traffic management system of Russia.

“After takeoff and a short flight - two minutes - the plane disappeared from communication and did not transmit a signal to the ground about any malfunctions, this may indicate that an emergency situation developed on board - either an outside influence on the car, or a meeting with an obstacle, which was hardly there, ”says Andreev, who has worked in aviation for 47 years.

He adds that "Tu-154 is a very reliable machine, and miracles do not happen, they just do not fall."

“In my practice, there have been cases when Tu-154s landed when all three engines failed, or, for example, the famous landing in the taiga on an abandoned strip,” the expert adds.

“Those versions about malfunctions on board that are now being voiced - rudder imbalance, deviation from the established flight path - certainly could not prevent the crew from transmitting a signal to the ground about this,” Andreev added.

“This means that something extreme has happened, from practice - such situations are possible when a ship is hijacked,” he added.

The expert clarified that the data of the self-written intercom (SPU) "with an accuracy of 99.99% will be able to explain what was happening in the cockpit at the time of the disaster."

The Tu-154 plane of the Russian Defense Ministry, which was heading for Syria, crashed in the Black Sea on Sunday morning.

According to the military department, there were 92 people on board - eight crew members and 84 passengers, including eight military men, 64 artists of the Alexandrov ensemble, nine representatives of Russian TV channels, the head of the Fair Help charity Elizaveta Glinka, known as Doctor Liza, two federal civil servants.

The version of the terrorist attack on the Tu-154 plane is practically ruled out - source

The large scattering of the debris of the Tu-154 crashed near Sochi is explained by the water hammer, a source in the emergency services told Interfax.

“Apparently, when the aircraft collided with the water surface, a water hammer occurred, which entailed a large scattering of debris,” the source said.

In turn, a source in the security forces told Interfax that a terrorist attack was not considered among the main versions of the catastrophe and that such a version was practically ruled out.

“The plane took off from the Chkalovsky airfield, which is a well-guarded military facility. It is not possible to penetrate there in order to plant an explosive device on board. In turn, the airport in Sochi is a dual-use airport and is heavily guarded. Penetration of unauthorized persons, or bringing unauthorized items by any of the employees is excluded, ”the source said.

Konashenkov: In search of the plane, 27 ships and vessels, 37 divers, 4 helicopters, UAVs and remotely controlled deep-sea vehicles are involved

Briefing by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov on the situation with the crash of the Tu-154 aircraft in the Sochi area as of 15:00:

“According to the updated data, 10 bodies of the dead have been lifted aboard the rescue vessel.

The build-up of the group of search and rescue forces in the area of ​​the Tu-154 plane crash of the Ministry of Defense continues.

A search area with an area of ​​10.5 km2 was formed.

The area is divided into sectors and distributed among the forces involved. The search is organized around the clock. For highlighting coastline in the dark, searchlight installations and special equipment were sent.

The search involved 27 ships and vessels, 37 divers, 4 helicopters, UAVs and remotely controlled deep-sea vehicles.

In the near future, more than 100 deep-sea divers with special equipment will be additionally delivered to the area of ​​the plane crash from other fleets.

In total, more than 3 thousand people take part in search and rescue activities.

At the Adler airfield, groups of medical and psychological assistance are on duty, vehicles have been allocated for the transportation of relatives to temporary accommodation at the funds of the city's sanatoriums.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Tu-154 crash would be thoroughly investigated.

"A thorough investigation of the causes of the disaster will be carried out and everything will be done to provide support to the families of the victims," ​​he said during an emergency press conference.

On the likelihood of a terrorist attack

On the topic of the likelihood of a terrorist attack.

Air Force Major, pilot instructor Sergei Krasnoperov:

- What could have caused the crash of this liner, do you think?

- Only the "black box" that will be lifted from this liner will tell about it. But, as you say, the versions - pilot error and equipment failure - are the real reasons, as is always the case in such cases. But it is too suspicious that the plane, after taking off in the climb, it is literally a few tens of minutes, disappears from the radar screens.

- Now we have clarified that this happened at the seventh minute, during the climb or during the turn, apparently, over the Black Sea.

- This means that the engines were working properly, the fuel was normal. If this had happened on takeoff, the fuel might have been the cause. The situation, perhaps, is similar to the tragedy in Sharm el-Sheikh, there, too, very little time has passed since takeoff.

- Do you mean the version of the terrorist attack?

- Certainly. What is very strange, the plane crashes on takeoff very rarely, especially of this class. The Tu-154 has three engines and is very reliable. I myself flew on them as a passenger very often.

- Why don't you consider the aircraft malfunction? After all, the Tu-154 is not a new aircraft.

- Yes, but they are very reliable. I can consider the design of the aircraft from the point of view of the pilot, and believe me, what is connected with the control of the aircraft, there is such a reliable control system, not like electronics now, but there are cable backup systems, including aircraft control systems, that is, if one system fails , another enters. Considering the experience of the pilots who now fly these planes, this situation is still very strange to me, that it was only the seventh minute after takeoff. I understand that the plane took off from our airfield, and it was also monitored by an electronic surveillance system, so it could not be that someone flew up to it, it could crash into something.

- Initially, it was reported that he simply disappeared from the radar screens, but the plane did not send any distress signals.

- This suggests that the plane, like in Sharm el-Sheikh, instantly lost speed and simply fell into a stall position, that is, uncontrollable. In this case, the pilot, simply with such an overload, which occurs in this case, not only could not report to the dispatcher, but was also unable to turn on the distress signal. Imagine, the liner just starts spinning strongly. Therefore, I think the plane was destroyed, as it happened in Sharm el-Sheikh, where its speed was at first 780 km / h and then sharply became 170 km / h, and the loss of an altitude of 1000 m.Now we need to look at the radars, exactly how speed dropped. That is, the plane could plan and land on the water. Recently there was a case with Tu-154, when 37 people were rescued. The pilots were then able to land the liner in an unfamiliar field with strong wind, in a strong blizzard, and they saved almost all people.
In this situation, there were simple meteorological conditions, if something happened to the plane, to the engine, it would simply turn around and glide towards the airfield, landing in the coastal zone. Let the plane fall apart, but the pilots, the crew, and the passengers would be alive, do you understand? And then there is a sharp drop, it happens when something abnormal happened, something exploded, something fell off. As a rule, the tail of these aircraft can only fall off. And in all other cases, the pilot could calmly transmit information, turn on the distress signal, but this did not happen. This means that something was so abnormal, abrupt in the seventh minute of the flight. So, I cannot sin on the crew, and the equipment does not break down so abruptly.

- Scattering of fragments at such a speed, and his speed in the set is about 600-700 km / h, already there he goes above, at such a distance it may well be. But if the plane fell whole, then there would be no such dispersion of the fragments, believe me. The plane collapsed, just fell apart, which means it exploded, which means that somewhere someone was given a suitcase, given that it was a flight to Syria, and the musicians from the ensemble were flying, they could carry something with these musical instruments, someone could have planted something. Believe me, such scattering of fragments occurs only when an aircraft is destroyed in the air. It just explodes, and that's it. And when the liner just falls, it turns out an oily stain, and then parts float up. The plane, if it falls, dives into the water, simply disappears, it is found after some time. And then they even found a man who had already suffered from the wreckage in the coastal zone. This suggests that the debris fell to the ground in a random fall, which means it exploded in mid-air.

President of the Alpha Veterans Association Sergei Goncharov.

“With a high degree of probability, I can say that this is not a terrorist attack, for several reasons,” says Sergei Goncharov, president of the Association of Veterans of the Alpha Anti-Terror Unit. - First. This is an aircraft operated by the Ministry of Defense, and, believe me, the discipline in the Ministry of Defense is still quite serious, and the people who serve these flights, they are verified people, of course, have all forms of admission in order to do this work.
Second. People flew on this plane, our comrades, who practically knew each other, and, as I understand it, no one put strangers on this plane. And the luggage that was there, of course, was checked by the very people who flew in this plane.
Third. The plane, as I understand it, was not in the air for so long, the sea water area provides opportunities, if it were an explosion or some kind of flash, then, probably, there would be eyewitnesses who could see it or, at least, could fix it ... And the last thing. The wreckage of the plane has already been found, which means that they have not scattered so far from each other, as happens with some ...
- One and a half kilometers for the sea, this distance, as you understand, is quite small. All this gives me reason to say that, as I understand it, one should be inclined to the versions either by the pilots' error, or by the refueling that took place that did not meet some criteria. In any case, it is necessary to express condolences to all the victims. Unfortunately, this tragedy darkened our pre-holiday days. But in any case, I believe that now the Ministry of Defense will carefully understand and dot the i's. The only thing that confuses me is why the crew could not give any information to the dispatchers. This is a fact that I cannot yet answer, I think the investigation will answer.

Sergei Alekseevich, there must have been similar events in the tragic world practice. And why the crew, if trying now to understand on the parallels by analogies, could not do the very first thing that every pilot probably does, if he understands that the situation is beyond the usual normal one - send a distress signal? Using the example of other situations, can you explain how events could have developed, why this could have happened?

- If we are talking about a terrorist act, then in an explosion on board an aircraft or in the luggage compartment, the communication system immediately disappears, and from a purely technical point of view, the ship commander cannot give the dispatcher any information. Apparently, if there was some kind of technical short circuit, some technical problem that did not allow the crew to contact the dispatchers (I repeat once again, this is a problem that will be dealt with after the wreckage is lifted) ... If this there was a terrorist attack, at the moment, in any case, there would be indirect data about what happened on the plane, in particular, an outbreak, an explosion, or at least we would have some new, albeit subjective or indirect, hints about that the plane was blown up or crashed in the air by an explosion.

From official sources:

"Previously, during the climb, the crew encountered a technical malfunction of a critical nature, which led to a catastrophe," said an Interfax source in the emergency services.
According to a Pravda.ru source at the operational headquarters, “so far, according to preliminary data, the situation is as follows. The pilot and the crew, and in the case of the Tu-154 it was enlarged, were professional, they had no flight accidents - everyone is almost sure that this is not a human factor. Pro captain, navigator participated in the landing of the "tumbling" Tu-154.
This is not a terrorist attack, too, with a probability close to one - the plane is serviced, controlled in a special zone, control at the Sochi airport has been tight since the Olympics. The weather conditions, let's say, are not the best, yesterday they closed Simferopol due to the weather and Sochi was a spare, but they were still flying. Unless, of course, the liner fell into an accidentally formed sudden tornado. Or in a flock of birds, which "plugged" all the engines at the same time on takeoff, at the moment of full thrust - there is an ornithopark nearby. technical malfunction, and so instantaneous and critical, such as switching the stabilizer to a dive in Rostov, that the crew did not have time to either work it out or report it. Because even the failure of two engines on the Tu-154 does not kill, the crew would one way or another put the liner on the water.

And it's stupid when they talk about an old plane, about "it has already been banned." It was not banned, but taken out of use by commercial airlines, because it consumes a lot of fuel, the noise exceeds the norms, and really its internal environment cannot be compared with the Boeing or Airbus. An airplane has no "old age", it has airworthiness - it is either flyable or not. Douglases of 50-60 years fly in the USA. I will say more, "black boxes" - parametric recorders have already been located, they will be raised by specialists with bathyscaphes. All debris and bodies, of course, will also be raised - 70 meters is now available depths. " What happened is an undeniable tragedy. The reasons will be sorted out, since the investigation is taken under the tightest control at the highest level. Additional information will also give decryptions of black boxes. The bodies of the dead have already begun to be lifted. According to TASS, by noon, four bodies were found and recovered.

Created and operating in Sochi operational headquarters for the reception of relatives dead passengers aircraft. At the Sochi airport, teams of psychological and psychiatric care are on duty. The mayor of the city held an emergency meeting of the commission on emergencies... "Kommersant's correspondent in Krasnodar Territory conveys that locals at the time of the catastrophe, they did not see the flash and did not hear the explosion, "the press notes.
Politonline.ru sources in the FSB of Russia also explained why everyone who approached the liner, serviced it and engaged in technical training was being checked. “The version of the terrorist attack is not a priority, but it must also be worked out. Yes, the FSB checks everyone who contacted the deceased aircraft, they look at the records, conduct polls - to exclude the version, and not because it is being“ secretly investigated ”.

Test pilot, Hero of the Russian Federation, Anatoly Knyshov:

- Tu-154 is a completely reliable aircraft, which is operated not only in the Ministry of Defense, but also in civil aviation... It has established itself as reliable and comfortable. The fact that there were military specialists on this board indicates that the plane was in full readiness. Because before each flight, a check is carried out - this type of aircraft, it has a certain admission, airworthiness certification.
What happened ... In aviation, everything can be, but after takeoff, when the engines are operating in takeoff mode and the crew has no information about any malfunctions of individual systems or engines, otherwise, if such information was available, the pilot would follow the instructions would turn around, land at the departure airfield. In this situation, we can say that, apparently, something was still on board. Because planes don't just fall down, they don't crash landings. But why the crew did not provide information about what happened to him is also a question.

- What are the options for the complete failure of systems on board?

- One of the options is the failure of three engines. But in any case, the crew informs the dispatch service, informs the Ministry of Defense about one reason or another. In this situation, in my opinion, a sharp loss of communication, a sharp depressurization of the aircraft led to the fact that the crew could not, did not have time to report the reason that happened on board.

Anatoly Nikolaevich, now, when they say that the board was refueling in Sochi, could low-quality fuel cause an emergency? Or is it rather an exception to the rule now?

- When refueling takes place at any airport, both on the territory of the Russian Federation and abroad, the crew and the team that serves (and I think there is a technical team on this board that serves this type of aircraft), they must check the type of fuel by the passport , its characteristics and so-called fuel samples are taken even before refueling. Therefore, I still cannot say that this is the reason for low-quality fuel, only the commission can determine that they will definitely take samples at the crash site (the remaining fuel will be somewhere in any case). They will be able to find out the quality of the fuel, and the state of the systems, and the readiness of the crew. Because in any case, if there were low-quality fuel, it would be impossible to simultaneously fail three engines, which could lead to such a catastrophe. The reason is explosive. There is an audible alarm, a light alarm that warns the crew about a particular malfunction. This warning did not work. Because the warning works for the crew, provides information with the aim of the crew competently and correctly fulfilling those recommendations, what they worked out already in ground conditions. It is sad that this is happening to our colleagues, namely from the Ministry of Defense, precisely those who were heading there, to the hot spot, where they could support our servicemen before the New Year. This is a tragedy that we will all go through.

Now the search is underway. Including information appeared that the search for an aircraft in the Black Sea is being carried out by 7 sea ​​vessels, a Mi-8 helicopter from Sochi airport joined the search. But there was information that the possible point where the plane crashed was in the mountains. Can you explain why such conflicting information is coming in now?

- Any plane that takes off is monitored by dispatching services, locators and help the crew to correctly build the trajectory to enter the route. If they are dodging somewhere, the dispatcher says: you are dodging. Because on this air route there are probably several types of aircraft - in the opposite direction, in the same direction. And the dispatch service controls and is responsible to some extent for the safety of being on this route. But even if the dispatcher service, the locators could not notice where the mark from this type of aircraft is ... Because each dispatcher displays the type of aircraft and its call sign on the screen. And when this tag disappears, a command is immediately given to the search service (in this case, these are helicopters that are now searching in the area of ​​possible tag disappearance). And the situation in the mountains may be such that they have dropped below the detection zone.

- And what could be the reason for this behavior of the crew?

- It could be the explosive nature of the plane itself, that is, an explosion could have occurred, and no one could report - neither the correspondents who were there, nor the crew itself. I cannot suggest anything else here.

PS. Almost the entire choir of the Alexandrov ensemble died

The deceased director of the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Elizaveta Glinka. She was also on board the crashed plane.

Dead journalists.

PS2. Regarding the rejoicing monsters from Ukraine and Russia, in this regard, it can be noted that at such moments the difference between people and moral monsters is well manifested.

Alexey Pushkov: Those killed in the crash are heroes of the war on terror

Alexei Pushkov, Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy, commented on the plane crash in Sochi.

“Those killed in the crash flew to Syria to support our military. They are all heroes of the war on terror. Their flight, their impulse was interrupted. Their spirit is alive, ”he wrote.

Those killed in the crash flew to Syria to support our military. They are all heroes of the war on terror. Their flight, their impulse was interrupted. Their spirit is alive.

Recall that during a scheduled flight from the Sochi airfield after takeoff, the Tu-154 aircraft disappeared from the radar radars. Later, the military department reported that 1.5 kilometers from the Black Sea coast Fragments of the Tu-154 hull were found at a depth of 50-70 meters in Sochi. Among the passengers were journalists from Channel One, NTV, the Zvezda TV channel, musicians from the Alexandrov ensemble, as well as Doctor Liza.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared nationwide mourning in the country in connection with the crash of a Russian plane in the Black Sea.

He stated this during an emergency press conference.

"Tomorrow in Russia will be declared a national mourning," - said Putin.

Recall that during a scheduled flight from the Sochi airfield after the takeoff of the Tu-154 aircraft, it disappeared from radar radars. Later, the military department reported that fragments of the Tu-154 hull were found 1.5 kilometers from the Black Sea coast of Sochi at a depth of 50-70 meters. Among the passengers were journalists from Channel One, NTV, the Zvezda TV channel, musicians from the Alexandrov ensemble, as well as Doctor Liza.

The deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, singer, Joseph Kobzon was supposed to fly on the Tu-154 plane of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation that crashed over the Black Sea to Syria. This was reported on December 25 by TASS with reference to the people's artist.

“On the 14th we had a concert with them in the Hall of Columns, and Valery Khalilov (the head of the Alexandrov ensemble - approx.) Asked me to fly with them, but I said that I had a medical visa and I had to fly for treatment, especially that I, together with them and with Khalilov, visited Syria once. So I said - next time somehow. But you see how the next time I turned around "

Kobzon said.

He assured that, if offered, he would be ready to speak again for Russian military personnel in Syria.

“I am sincerely sorry, for me this is just shocking news. This is a great tragedy for culture, for an army audience. They flew on a combat mission "

Russian TV channel published the first video of the wreckage of the crashed Tu-154

The Russian TV channel Life showed the first footage from the crash site of the Russian Defense Ministry plane, which fell into the Black Sea. The sent footage shows the wreckage of the Tu-154 military board, which are in the water.

The media published a video of the rescue operation in the area of ​​the Tu-154 crash

The first video of a rescue operation in the area of ​​the crash of the Tu-154 Ministry of Defense aircraft appeared.

Recall that during a scheduled flight from the Adler airfield after the takeoff of the Tu-154 aircraft, it disappeared from the radar radars. Later, the military department reported that fragments of the Tu-154 hull were found 1.5 kilometers from the Black Sea coast of Sochi at a depth of 50-70 meters. Among the passengers were journalists from Channel One, NTV, the Zvezda TV channel and 68 musicians from the Alexandrov ensemble, as well as Doctor Liza.

According to the official version of the Tu-154 crash in Sochi on December 25, 2016, instead of a man, an orangutan turned out to be at the helm of the plane, who became ridiculous to pull the control knobs, which led to the tragedy. If we draw a parallel with driving, it would look like this: the driver got behind the wheel, started, and drove into a snowdrift. I handed it back - and crumpled three cars next to me. Then he drove forward - and crashed with all the foolishness into a garbage container, which was the end of the trip.

Conclusion: either the driver was dead drunk - or something happened to the car.

But the Tu-154 recorders showed that the plane was fully operational. And to assume that the pilot began to take off in a dead state in front of the other crew members, not suicides, also does not work. And his voice on the recorder is absolutely sober.

However, the plane crashed - allegedly as a result of inexplicable actions of the crew. Or is there still an explanation - but the military leadership desperately hides it?

Savvy journalists have unearthed that the plane may have been heavily overloaded - hence all the consequences. Moreover, he was overloaded not at the Sochi airport Adler, where he made an intermediate landing, but at the Chkalovsky military airfield near Moscow, from where he started.

The weight of the excess cargo is more than 10 tons. However, at Chkalovsky, according to the documents, 10 tons less kerosene was poured into this Tu-1542B-2 - 24 tons, as a result, the total weight of the aircraft was 99.6 tons. This exceeded the norm by only 1.6 tons - and therefore it was not critical. The pilot probably noted that the takeoff there took place with an effort - but there could be many reasons for this: wind, atmospheric pressure, air temperature.

But in Adler, where the plane landed for refueling, this refueling played a fatal role. Fuel was added to the aircraft tanks already under the plug - up to 35.6 tons, which is why its take-off weight became more than 10 tons more than the permissible one.

And if we accept this version with overload, everything further gets the most logical explanation.

The aircraft took off from the Adler runway at a speed of 320 km / h - instead of the nominal 270 km / h. Further ascent occurred at a speed of 10 meters per second - instead of the usual 12-15 m / s.

And 2 seconds after taking off from the ground, the commander of the ship, Roman Volkov, pulled the steering wheel towards himself in order to increase the take-off angle. The fact is that the take-off and landing trajectories are strictly defined at each airfield: landing is more gentle, takeoff is steeper. This is necessary in order to separate in height the airliners taking off and going to land - without which they would constantly face a collision in the air.

But an increase in the ascent angle led to a drop in speed - an aircraft that was too heavy refused to perform this maneuver. Then the pilot, probably already realizing that they had put some kind of pig on him in the form of an extra load, moved the steering wheel away from him in order to stop the ascent and thereby pick up speed.

This happened at an altitude of 200 meters - and if the plane had remained in this echelon, even in violation of all the rules, the tragedy might not have happened. But Volkov piloted the car outside of its permissible modes - which no one had done before, since overload flights are strictly prohibited. And how the plane behaved in these conditions is hard to imagine. In addition, it is possible that that extra load, being poorly secured, also violated the alignment of the aircraft during takeoff.

As a result, a slight panic arose in the cockpit. The pilots began to retract the flaps ahead of schedule - in order to reduce air resistance and thereby gain speed faster.

Then a dangerous rapprochement began with the water, over which the take-off line was. The speed was already decent - 500 km / h, Volkov abruptly took the steering wheel over himself in order to raise the plane, simultaneously starting a turn - apparently, he decided to return to the airfield. Then the irreparable happened: the plane, in response to the pilot's actions, did not go up, but crashed into the water, scattering from a collision with it into fragments ...

Such a scenario, based on the data of the recorders, is absolutely consistent - and looks much more plausible than Shoigu's delusional explanation that the pilot lost his spatial orientation and, instead of climbing, began to perform a descent.

During takeoff, no spatial orientation at all is required from the pilot. Before him are two main devices: an altimeter and a speed indicator, he monitors their readings, not being distracted by the views outside the window ...

You can also ask: how did an overloaded plane manage to get off the runway? The answer is simple: there is a so-called ground effect, which significantly increases the lift of the wings up to 15 meters above the ground. By the way, the concept of ekranoplanes is based on it - semi-semi-aircraft, semi-ships flying within these 15 meters in height with a much larger load on board than those of equal power aircraft…

Well, and now the most important questions.

First: what kind of cargo was placed in the belly of this Tu - and by whom?

It is clear that these were not the lightweight medications of Dr. Lisa on this flight, and not armored personnel carrier: a passenger plane does not have a wide port for the entry of all kinds of equipment. This cargo was obviously heavy and compact enough to enter through the cargo hatch.

And which one - you can assume anything here: boxes of vodka, shells, gold ingots, Sobyaninsk tiles ... And why it was decided to send it not by cargo, but by passenger flight - there could be any reasons too. From slovenliness for non-dispatch of combat cargo, which they decided to cover gradually - to the most criminal schemes for the export of precious metal or other contraband.

Another question: did the pilots know about this left cargo? For sure! This is not a needle in a haystack, but a whole haystack that cannot be hidden from view. But what exactly was there and what the true weight of it was - the pilots might not know. After all, this is an army, where the order of the highest rank is higher than all instructions; and most likely that order was supplied with some other generous promise - with a hint of all sorts of intrigues in case of refusal. Under the influence of such an explosive mixture, a lot of malfeasance is being committed today - when a forced person is faced with a choice: either to earn decent money - or to be left without work and without pants.

And the well-known Russian, perhaps, at the same time, as they say, has not been canceled!

Who ordered it? There can also be a large spread here: from any lieutenant colonel, deputy for armaments - to colonel general. Depending on what kind of cargo was put on the plane.

In short, in Chkalovsky the plane is overloaded, but this overload is compensated for by incomplete refueling - and in Adler, the tanks are already being filled to capacity. Obviously, the calculation was to fly with your own fuel to the Syrian Khmeimim (destination) and back. And the fact that the commander of the ship agreed in Adler for these 35.6 tons of fuel speaks in favor of the fact that he still did not know the real value of the overload. He will fly alone - you can still admit the dashing daring, which Chkalov himself laid the foundation for in our aviation. But behind Volkov's back were his own crew of 7 people, and another 84 passengers, including the artists of the Alexandrov ensemble!

The fact that the Ministry of Defense in this matter is not just obscuring, but with might and main is hiding the truth - such facts speak.

1. Shoigu's version of "violation of the spatial orientation (situational awareness) of the commander, which led to erroneous actions with the aircraft controls" does not stand up to criticism. For any pilot, not only with 4000 flight hours, like Volkov's, but with ten times less, takeoff is the simplest action that does not require any special skills. For example, landing in adverse weather conditions is a completely different matter. The crash during the landing of the same Tu-154 from the Polish delegation near Smolensk is a typical example of the pilot's lack of skill and experience. But no one has ever crashed during takeoff on a serviceable plane.

2. The decoding of the recorders probably already in the first days after the tragedy gave the whole alignment of what had happened. An analogy with the same Polish case in 2010 is appropriate here: then, on the 5th day, the IAC (Interstate Aviation Committee) issued an exhaustive version of the incident, which was fully confirmed later.

The IAC has been stubbornly silent about the Adler catastrophe for 6 months already. On his website, where detailed analyzes of all flight accidents are published - only two hang on the subject of Adler short messages that the investigation is ongoing. And another meaningful passage:

“To investigate this disaster, the resources of research and expert institutions have been attracted. Among them is the Interstate Aviation Committee, which has great experience investigation of accidents with aircraft of the Tu-154 type and the necessary resources to provide assistance in order to expedite the investigation. At the same time, the IAC informs that the official comments on this investigation are provided exclusively by the Russian Ministry of Defense. "

That is, read, "we were gagged, sorry."

3. Naturally, the Minister of Defense in the very first hours, if not minutes after the disaster, found out what kind of cargo was on board the crashed Tu. And the incredibly long search for the wreckage of the plane, which added absolutely nothing to the information of the recorders, suggests that they were looking for that very secret cargo. And not at all the truth, which was immediately clear to the military.

Well, and another question: why do the military, headed by their minister, hide this truth so much? And from whom - from Putin himself or from the people?

Well, to be hidden from Putin, I very much doubt: he does not look like a person who can be fooled around like that. That means they are hiding from the people. It means that this truth is such that it somehow terribly undermines the prestige of our military.

That is, either some lieutenant colonel, a complete idiot, loaded into a passenger plane something that should not have been close. And then a shadow on our entire army, in which such idiots are on a horse that they can ruin the backbone of Alexandrov's ensemble with their idiocy.

Or is the colonel-general involved, entering the very head - and then also shame and disgrace: it turns out that through the replacement of Serdyukov with Shoigu, our army has not cleared itself of general outrage?

And the last thing. Remember, when we watched the film "Chapayev" as a child, many of us shouted in the audience: "Chapay, run!" Just as spontaneously, today, when everything became almost clear with the Adler tragedy, I would like to shout to the pilot Volkov: “Don't take this load! But if he took it - don't fly higher than 200 meters above the sea! "

After all, if you look at the calm mind, which was not praised by the pilot, who got into a storm of circumstances, he had a chance of salvation. Namely: when overloading an aircraft, do not even try to comply with the instructions, which obliges to climb to such and such a height at a certain distance from the airfield. Violate it to hell, get a reprimand for it, even if it is fired, but save your own life and the lives of others. That is, to fly at a minimum altitude, producing fuel - and when the weight of the aircraft decreases in an hour and a half, start climbing.

Another thing that again suggests itself is that if you decided to return to Adler, make a U-turn not by a standard turn with a side roll, which knocked the plane into the sea, but by the so-called “pancake”. That is, one rudder - when the plane remains in horizontal plane, and the turning radius at the same time greatly increases: a maneuver that is practically not used in modern aviation.

Yes, only this chance, which could have saved this plane, in the future plan would still be ghostly and murderous. For example, Volkov could have managed to get out of the disastrous situation set by the organizers of his flight. Then the next time he or his colleague would be hung not 10, but 15 extra tons of some "unspecified" cargo: after all, appetites grow as their satisfaction. And the tragedy would have happened all the same - not in this case, so in the next, while maintaining its causes.

May God grant that as a result of this catastrophe, someone in our armed forces will give someone a good blow on their brains, putting an end to the outrages that led to an inevitable outcome.

Alexander Roslyakov

The crash of the Tu-154 aircraft of the 223rd flight unit of the Russian Ministry of Defense was one of the biggest tragedies of the outgoing year. There were 92 people on board, all of whom died. In each such case, the emergence of different versions of what happened is inevitable. "Lenta.ru" tried to figure out what was happening.

NB: Everything that has been said below about the causes of the aircraft accident is a statement of versions that have not yet been officially confirmed. Until the publication of the official conclusions on the results of the investigation into the causes of the disaster, none of these versions can be considered true.

Circumstances

The Tu-154B-2 aircraft, tail number RA-85572, produced in 1983 at the Kuibyshev aircraft plant (now the Aviakor plant), was operated almost all the time by the Ministry of Defense - first as part of the 8th Special Purpose Air Division of the USSR Air Force, then - created in 1993 of the 223rd flight detachment.

As of the day of the crash, the aircraft had about 11 percent of its flight resource with an average flight time of just over 200 hours per year, which is relatively small for passenger liners, which in civil aviation are operated with an intensity of 1000 or more hours per year. The assigned resource of the board was 37,500 hours, or 16 thousand landings, while it could be extended to 60 thousand hours and 22 thousand landings.

Tu-154B-2 has already been taken out of commercial operation due to non-compliance with accepted noise standards and high fuel consumption, but military vehicles are still in service.

The operator of the aircraft is the 223rd flight detachment of the Ministry of Defense, the Russian state aviation enterprise- provides air transportation in the interests of government agencies and performs irregular cargo and Passenger Transportation, as a rule, the personnel of the armed forces. The enterprise was organized on the basis of the 8th Special Purpose Aviation Division (8 adOSNAZ, 8 adon) of the Russian Air Force in Chkalovsk in accordance with the presidential decree Russian Federation dated January 15, 1993 No. 37-rp "On ensuring the activities of the 223rd and 224th flight detachments of the Russian Ministry of Defense" for air transportation in the interests of government agencies.

The plane took off from the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow and was supposed to land for refueling in Mozdok, however, weather conditions the refueling airfield was changed to Sochi. The liner took off from Sochi at 05:25 and fell, according to available data, having spent two minutes in the air until the moment of the disaster.

The destination of the flight was the Russian Khmeimim airbase in Syria. The plane of the artists of the Aleksandrov military ensemble, journalists and the servicemen accompanying them. In addition, Elizaveta Glinka, known as Doctor Lisa, and the head of the culture department of the Ministry of Defense, Anton Gubankov, were on board.

Versions

The main publicly discussed versions of what happened are reduced to three: equipment malfunction, piloting error, terrorist act. A concomitant circumstance for the first two could be the weather, but the available data on the actual weather conditions in Sochi at the time of the disaster suggest that they were quite acceptable:

Visibility 10 kilometers or more. Cloudiness in several layers: the lower layer is 5-7 octants (eighths), s bottom edge 1000 meters, above it there is another layer, continuous with the lower edge of 2800 meters, temperature +5, dew point +1, pressure of about 763 millimeters of mercury. The runways are dry. East wind 5 meters per second. At sea - wave height up to 0.1 meters.

All three versions can neither be confirmed nor ruled out until the official conclusions of the commission of inquiry, but one can try to "spread out on the table" the available information at least in order to streamline it.

Last time RA-85572 was repaired in December 2014, and in September 2016 it underwent scheduled maintenance. The total flight time of the aircraft for 33 years of operation was 6689 hours.

This age and resource is completely normal for liners in military operation. Thus, one of the main cargo-passenger aircraft of the US Air Force, the C-135 Stratolifter, built from 1956 to 1965, is still in operation, and the total service life of these aircraft may approach a century - they will remain in the Air Force at least until 2040 -s.

The Tu-154 itself belongs to reliable aircraft, at the same time, no aircraft are insured against technical problems, and, of course, this version will be one of the main ones.

The crew of the crashed liner is characterized as experienced. The Tu-154, which crashed in the Black Sea, was flown by the first class pilot Roman Volkov.

"Airplane Tu-154 military transport aviation The Russian Ministry of Defense was piloted by an experienced pilot, Roman Alexandrovich Volkov. Roman Volkov is a first class pilot. The total flight time is more than three thousand hours, "- in the military department to a TASS correspondent.

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Petukhov - navigator of the crashed Tu-154B-2 - in April 2011 participated in the rescue "". Then an airplane of the same model landed at Chkalovsky airport with a faulty control system. The Tu-154B-2 RA-88563 was planned to be overtaken for repairs in Samara. After the plane took off, its control system was malfunctioning. The plane began to sway in the air and bounce, which was noticeable from the ground. Journalists later called the liner dancing.

Nevertheless, the plane managed to return to the runway in Chkalovsky thanks to the skillful actions of the crew. Petukhov was the navigator of the "dancing liner", along with his colleagues he was awarded the Order of Courage.

At the same time, taking off from coastal airfields has always been not the easiest procedure, and the Tu-154, especially in version "B", is described by many pilots as a fairly strict aircraft in control, making high demands on the pilot, which also does not allow to dismiss the version on the fly. possible tragic mistake. According to civil aviation pilots, the experience of more than three thousand hours for the commander of a vehicle of this class is insufficient.

Finally, given the political situation, a version of a terrorist attack cannot be ruled out, including due to the specific features of the organization of military flights. Unfortunately, the stringency of screening and security on military passenger flights is much less than on commercial airlines. As noted by many military personnel and civilians who have experience of flying by aircraft of the Ministry of Defense from Chkalovsky and other military airfields, pre-flight inspection on such flights, it often comes down to empty formalities in the form of checking the lists of passengers with documents, especially when “your” team is flying. When flying abroad - to Syria, for example - it is somewhat stricter (border formalities are included), but even in this case it does not compare with traditional measures in most civilian airports in developed countries.

In these conditions, it is possible to assume the presence of an explosive device on board, which could have been placed in the luggage of the liner during loading or carried on board during a stopover in Sochi. In any case, the likelihood of such a development of events does not exclude the special services, which have begun checking those who could have access to the plane at the airport of departure and in Sochi.

A variation of the version of the terrorist attack is the assumption put forward in some media about an attack on an aircraft using a portable anti-aircraft missile system, which could have been carried out by terrorists either from a boat or from residential buildings on the coast, but this option is hardly possible, given that the deceased liner should have to land in Mozdok, and if they intended to attack him during landing / take-off from the refueling airfield, he would be expected there.

Anyway, the investigation has just begun. A plane crash into the sea can seriously complicate it - the steep depth difference in the Sochi region, where the continental slope at an angle of 45 degrees drops sharply downward, 500, 1000 or more meters, and a thick layer of silt will greatly complicate the search for the wreckage of the liner. The Il-18V plane that died in the same area in 1972 fell a little further from the coast - at a distance of about 10 kilometers, but its wreckage went to a depth of 500 to 1000 meters, and neither large parts of the fuselage and wings, nor flight recorders could be found ...

Taking these conditions into account, every hour matters: with every hour, the debris submerged under the water will sink deeper and deeper. This, obviously, is understood by all responsible persons - the diving elite of the Emergencies Ministry and the Russian Navy - deep divers from all four fleets, with special equipment and underwater vehicles, are being transferred to Sochi.

After the complete decryption of the black boxes of the Tu-154 that crashed at the end of December 2016 in the water area of ​​Sochi - parametric and speech- The experts of the Ministry of Defense can in fact already accurately name the reasons for the plane crash.According to experts, the plane with passengers was destroyed by a combination of several factors:went on the last voyage overloaded, and the co-pilot Alexander Rovensky taking off, perhapsconfused the landing gear and flap control levers. When the crew noticed the error, it was already too late: the heavy Tu-154 simply did not have enough height for a rescue maneuver, so ithit the water with the tail of the fuselage and collapsed.

Heavy and uncontrollable

A Life source familiar with the investigation into the causes of the disaster said that the notorious human factor was recognized as the priority version of the Tu-154 crash.

The data of the speech and parametric (recording the operation of all aircraft units) recorders studied by the experts of the Research Center for the Operation and Repair of Aircraft of the Ministry of Defense in Lyubertsy say that in the third minute of the flight, when the airliner was at an altitude of 450 meters above sea level, the sensors of the directional stability system worked. - a source told Life. - The car began to lose altitude sharply due to problems with the flaps.

According to experts, this could have happened after the second pilot, 33-year-old captain Alexander Rovensky, instead of removing the landing gear, retracted the flaps.

From this, the plane went into an outrageous angle of attack, the crew tried to turn the car to reach the ground, but did not have time to do this, - added a source to Life.

As it turned out, the situation was aggravated by the overload of the Tu-154. Everything in the luggage compartment was filled to capacity. The tail of the plane was pulled down. It was impossible to save the car: there was not enough speed and height.The tail section first touched the water, and then the Tu-154at high speedhit the sea with its right wing and collapsed.

According to a Life source, emergency situation became a complete surprise for the crew: in the first seconds, the aircraft commander, 35-year-old Major Roman Volkov and the co-pilot Alexander Rovensky, were at a loss, but they quickly pulled themselves together and before last seconds tried to save the plane.

DECODING:

Speed ​​300 ... (Inaudible.)

- (Inaudible.)

Took the racks, commander.

- (Inaudible.)

Wow, e-mine!

(A sharp beep sounds.)

Flaps, bitch, what the fuck nya!

Altimeter!

US... (Inaudible.)

(The signal sounds about a dangerous approach to the ground.)

- (Inaudible.)

Commander, we are falling!

So the experts realized that the plane had problems with the flaps precisely due to the fault of the crew.

The pilots who flew the Tu-154, with whom Life spoke, confirm the conclusions of the experts of the Ministry of Defense that the cause of the crash could be a pilot error.

In Tupolev, the landing gear and flap retraction knobs are made on the visor of the cockpit, between them, above the windshield. You can confuse them, especially if the co-pilot, sitting on the right, whose duties include controlling the flaps and landing gear during takeoff, is tired, '' Honored Pilot of the Russian Federation Viktor Sazhenin, who himself flew on the Tu-154 for eight years, told Life. - From this, the plane went into an outrageous angle of attack, hit the water, and its tail fell off.

This version is considered acceptable by the test pilot Hero of Russia Magomed Tolboyev.

On the Tu-154 control panel, the flap and landing gear switches are located above the windshield. Flaps on the left, landing gear on the right. The co-pilot, who sits in the seat on the right, is responsible for them. It is possible that the pilot could confuse the levers or be distracted by something, so the plane took off with the landing gear extended and the flaps retracted, '' Tolboyev told Life.

According to Tolboev, it cannot be ruled out that after takeoff the crew exceeded the speed and the flap mechanism collapsed, because of which the liner fell to the right, lost speed and crashed into the water.

Tragic experience

Another factor in the Tu-154 disaster in Sochi could be the lack of sufficient knowledge of the ship's commander and co-pilot on how to act in an extreme situation.

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Accident with Tu-154 B-2 s tail number RA-85572 of the Ministry of Defense occurred on December 25, 2016. It was at 5:40 am Moscow time, 1.7 kilometers from the coast of Sochi. The board of the Ministry of Defense flew to the Syrian Khmeimim from the Chkalovsky airfield, and in Sochi it was just refueling. There were 92 people on board. A few minutes after taking off from the runway, the plane disappeared from the radar screens.

The crashed airliner was based at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow and was part of the State Airline 223rd Flight Detachment of the Ministry of Defense, which transports military personnel.

The Tu-154 B-2 modification is designed to carry 180 economy class passengers and was produced from 1978 to 1986. A total of 382 aircraft were built. Since 2012, Russian civilian airlines have not operated the Tu-154 B-2.