The storm has begun. Sofa experts on the Internet claim that after a storm it will only be easier for divers to work - the water itself will carry many things ashore. Those professionals who are now examining the sunken TU-154 think differently. Bad weather, on the contrary, will confuse all the cards. Vyacheslav Ivaschenko, the head of the search and rescue unit of the southern regional search and rescue unit of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, told Komsomolskaya Pravda about the search for the crashed plane.
- In what conditions do you have to work?
Almost perfect. The plane lies on a large underwater field. The depth is about the same everywhere - about 25 meters. That is, you can search during the day without special lighting, natural conditions are enough. The bottom is solid sandstone. There is almost no silt or mud.
- And what can you find?
Large aircraft parts, small, some personal items. If you manage to find electronic devices - phones, tablets - they are immediately taken upstairs. Then they are sent for examination. Yesterday we raised an aircraft engine weighing three tons from the bottom. There are also fragments of bodies (according to data, at 18:40 on December 28, the remains of 16 people were found - Auth.)
The work of divers underwater at the crash site of the Tu-154.
- Are there no whole bodies?
Alas. This happens with a strong impact on the water. The dead are literally torn apart. I saw something similar during the crash of the Airbus of the Armenian airlines 10 years ago. Also around Adler. The injuries are similar.
(Recall that information appeared in the media that the bodies of the victims were found without clothes. Now it is clear why. By the way, the data that the passengers were in life jackets, were also not confirmed.)
- How do you look for fragments at the bottom?
An anchor is lowered from the ship on the surface. I tied to it with a rope and slowly begin to swim in a circle. Then the rope lengthens, and I float in a larger circle. The bottom is searched with such diverging trajectories. Small objects are tied with a rope - they are lifted by companions in the boat on the surface. Large parts of the aircraft are pulled out with a crane. I designate the coordinates, a ship or a barge with a lift floats on the surface. Then the find is tied with slings and rises.
- And what is more: personal belongings or aircraft parts?
90% - fuselage elements. Passengers' belongings are rare.
“They say the storm will help you.
No. The storm will shake everything at the bottom. Something may shift to already proven areas. In addition, now everything is clearly visible under water. And after the storm, turbidity will rise, it will become much more difficult to work.
- Is it psychologically difficult to swim under water and find the remains?
You need to set yourself up correctly. I focus on the thought that there is difficult but important work to be done. Return to relatives of their loved ones. Only I can do this. There won't be others. This is the kind of motivation that helps.
- Are there any tricks to relax after work, reboot?
I return to my family, play with children, try not to think about what lies at the bottom. Again, I remind myself that I do not have an ordinary profession, where everything happens.
Vyacheslav Ivaschenko said that the Emergencies Ministry's divers work hard all day. They go out to sea in the morning when it starts to dawn and return to the shore only in the evening with sunset. But even so, each submariner manages to work no more than two hours. The rest of the time is spent on diving and ascent, preparing equipment and filling oxygen cylinders.
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Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations lift the wreckage of Tu-154 from the bottom of the Black Sea
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The search operation involves 45 ships, 15 deep-sea vehicles, 192 divers, 12 aircraft and five helicopters. A self-propelled crane arrived at the crash site to lift large debris.
Found about one and a half thousand aircraft fragments. On this moment managed to raise one third to the surface. 12 large fragments were also found. One of them is two by three meters, the second is about five meters in length, the third is more than 60 meters in length.
MEANWHILE
The main phase of the search for the wreckage of the crashed Tu-154 is over
"The active phase of the search operation in the Black Sea is completed," said the source. The search group lifted almost all of the Tu-154 fragments from the seabed. A group of ships that took part in the operation left the Black Sea
BY THE WAY
Rescuers from the Tu-154 crash site: The victims have the same injuries as the victims of the 2006 crash
Since the day of the Tu-154 disaster, rescuers have been continuously working at the site of its fall in the Black Sea. They raise from the bottom the bodies of the dead and the wreckage of the aircraft, on board which at the time of the crash were 92 people - members of the crew, artists of the ensemble. Alexandrova, journalists and Dr. Lisa.
Our photojournalist Vladimir Velengurin watches with his own eyes how the divers work and how the search operation is progressing
It also became known that several passengers who were in the crashed liner were wearing life jackets. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source familiar with the progress of the operation of the search and rescue services. "People in vests were preparing to evacuate," said an unnamed interlocutor of the agency. The Russian Defense Ministry denied this message and called it "shameful insinuations."
ON THIS TOPIC
Nevertheless, information about the passengers of the ill-fated flight who managed to put on life jackets may speak in favor of one of the main versions being considered by the investigation. Most likely, on board, immediately after taking off from the ground, an emergency situation began to develop instantly and suddenly for everyone. technical malfunction aircraft. From the official version announced by the authorities, it follows that the airliner disappeared from the radar screens two minutes after takeoff. Only a well-trained person can get the vest out from under the chair, unfold it, put it on and fasten it in such a short time. In addition, according to the testimony of those who flew on similar airliners of the Ministry of Defense, they do not instruct passengers about life-saving appliances before the flight, due to the fact that flights are not served by flight attendants.
If we assume that everyone who was on board at the time of the disaster has flown more than once and knows how to use a life jacket, then from whom did they receive the information that they need to be urgently worn? During daylight hours during takeoff, passengers sitting near the windows can see that the plane begins to roll or sharply lose altitude. But the takeoff of the Tu-154 from Sochi airport took place in complete darkness.
The signal about the use of vests, of course, could have been given by the aircraft commander, but for a few minutes from takeoff to climb, the engines operate in maximum takeoff mode, and the noise from them will simply interfere with clearly hearing any commands over the speakerphone. In addition, this version is destroyed by the same official information that the aircraft crew did not report anything about emergency on board ground services. And the ship commander had to first notify the dispatcher about the incident, and then give the command to the passengers to put on their vests.
Participants of numerous aviation forums on the Web also dismissed the version about life jackets on Tu-154 passengers as fantastic.
On Monday, search and rescue operations continued near the Black Sea coast, where the Tu-154 plane of the Ministry of Defense crashed. The operation involves about four thousand people. The liner crashed on December 25 near Sochi. Onboard there were 92 people - eight crew members and 84 passengers.
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The Ministry of Defense specified the number of people on board the Tu-154 that fell into the Black Sea: 84 passengers and 8 crew members flew to the Khmeimim base on this flight, 92 people in total ( LIST passengers). The wreckage of the plane was found off the coast at a depth of 110 m. Musicians of the Alexandrov ensemble and journalists were on board. Three TV channels reported that they had sent film crews to Syria on this flight: Channel One, NTV and Zvezda. Among the dead is a doctor Elizaveta Glinka, which was carrying medicines to Syria.
14:03. Putin promises to thoroughly investigate the causes of the disaster and help the relatives of the victims. The President in St. Petersburg will hold a meeting with the leader of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.
14:00. In Moscow, flowers are being brought to the building of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble named after Alexandrov, as well as to the building where the Fair Help Foundation of Elizaveta Glinka was located.
11:33. A representative of the ensemble told Meduza that the concert in Syria was to take place in Aleppo.
11:31 am. Military expert Alexander Golts told Open Russia that it is pointless to talk about the cause of the disaster until the black boxes have been found: "But, of course, it is very alarming that the Russian authorities immediately began to deny the version of the terrorist attack."
11:23. Drones joined the search operation, the Ministry of Defense reported. Four ships and five helicopters are taking part in it, said the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov on the air of the Russia-24 channel.
11:20. The head of the HRC Mikhail Fedotov confirmed the data on the death of Elizaveta Glinka: according to him, she was taking medicines to the university hospital in Latakia. “We hoped for a miracle until the very end,” he told Interfax. An obituary was published on the HRC website, but it was out of order.
11:13. At Chkalovsky airports in Adler, those involved in the flight are checked by the FSB, Fontanka claims. According to the St. Petersburg edition, "they are working on a terrorist attack."
11:08. Up to seven bodies of the dead were found at the crash site, a source told Interfax.
11:05. The Investigative Committee of TASS reported that a group of experienced investigators was sent to the crash site. On behalf of the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, the case was transferred to the Central Office of the Investigative Committee.
11:02. An Interfax source said that the plane was in good working order and passed all scheduled checks. The interlocutor said that although the plane was produced 33 years ago, it was operated in a sparing mode: "On average, the plane had flown 27 hours a month."
10:59 am. The Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that six vessels are operating in the area of the wreck, three more are being advanced. The wreckage was found 6 km from coastline, the depth here is from 80 to 110 meters.
10:41. The Ministry of Defense has published a list of passengers. There are 64 employees of the Alexandrov ensemble, 9 media employees, 8 crew members, 8 military personnel, two federal civil servants, one employee of the Fair Help organization - Elizaveta Glinka.
10:37. Created in Sochi operational headquarters, they promise to help the relatives of the victims, reports TASS. The Moscow mayor's office also intends to provide support. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote about this on Twitter.
10:35. Elizaveta Glinka was not on board, a source told Interfax. At the same time, the agency reports that she was on the passenger lists.
10:33. The sound engineer of NTV Evgeny Tolstov before takeoff from the Moscow Region airport Chkalovsky published on Facebook
Rescuers are constantly working at the site of his fall in the Black Sea. They raise from the bottom the bodies of the dead and the wreckage of the aircraft, on board which at the time of the crash were 92 people - members of the crew, artists of the ensemble. Alexandrova, journalists and Dr. Lisa.
Our photojournalist Vladimir Velengurin watches with his own eyes how the divers work and how the search operation is progressing.
In the early days, there was information that some passengers managed to put on life jackets. That is, they were preparing for the fall. But not a single victim, whose body was raised, had a life jacket, - Vladimir Velingurin reports from the place of search work.
Also, among the employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations there are experienced rescuers who worked on the plane crash of the Armenian airline Armavia in 2006. That disaster took place at about the same place during the landing of the liner.
Those who died in that accident and this one have very similar injuries, - rescuers tell our correspondent. - The bodies were badly damaged, which can only be from a powerful impact on the water. There are very few intact bodies, mostly fragments. There are no traces of fire on the bodies either, that is, there was most likely no explosion.
Dozens of divers and an inhabited underwater bathyscaphe of the Russian Geographical Society work at the crash site around the clock.
Here, on December 27, at the morning formation, the head of the composite detachment of the Ministry of Emergencies, Alexander Agafonov, congratulated all employees on their professional holiday.
But we will celebrate later, and now the hard work lies ahead, - said Alexander Agafonov.
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Expert about last words of the Tu-154 crew: "It turns out that this disaster happened due to equipment failure"
Andrey Litvinov, 1st class pilot, A-320 commander:
Or it is a misalignment of the aircraft, and one of the crew members shouts: "flaps". What does he mean? Maybe: it is not necessary to retract the flaps, since the nose of the aircraft lifts up, and in this case it is necessary not only not to retract them, but, on the contrary, to extend them in order to increase the lift. Or another version: the crew began to retract the flaps, but they do not retract synchronously
Expert - about the last words of the Tu-154 crew: "Perhaps the flaps have nothing to do with it, but the matter is in the fuel system"
Former commander of the front-line aviation of the Russian Air Force, Colonel-General Nikolai Antoshkin:
Something broke there. Maybe it got stuck, maybe it didn't work. Even if flaps were released on one wing, but not on the other, this is not such a terrible trouble for an aircraft.
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Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations lift the wreckage of Tu-154 from the bottom of the Black Sea
