The tragedy of the plane crashed into the Black Sea. “Unless it’s a collective insanity

14.11.2020

Defense Ministry experts carefully studied two black boxes to establish the true cause of the crash of a Tu-154 aircraft flying from Sochi to Syria on December 25. According to experts, the main version of the tragedy can be considered the error of one of the pilots.

According to the employees of the Research Center for the Operation and Repair of Aircraft of the Ministry of Defense, the data of the recorders showed that in the third minute of the flight, the sensors of the course stability system urgently worked. This indicates that the airliner had problems with the flaps. Recall that earlier on the Web appeared last words aircraft pilots. On the recording, they could be heard discussing the malfunction of this part of the aircraft.

According to journalists, experts indicated that the 33-year-old co-pilot Alexander Rovensky, presumably, removed the flaps instead of the landing gear. However, the main report on the tragedy has not yet been provided.

“The plane went into an extreme angle of attack, the crew tried to turn the car around to reach the ground, but they didn’t have time to do this,” a source familiar with the situation said.

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In addition, the plane was overloaded, so the tail of the liner was pulled down. According to other aircraft industry workers, the captain of the aircraft did not have enough experience to land the plane. “Most likely, neither the commander of the aircraft, Roman Volkov, nor the co-pilot Alexander Rovensky, who graduated from military schools in the early 2000s, did not undergo special flight training,” one of the specialists noted.

As Life.ru was informed, on the side panel of the Tu-154 the landing gear and flap levers are very close, so the co-pilot could make a mistake.

A little later, a comment by a representative of the Ministry of Defense appeared on the Web, who noted that it was still premature to draw such conclusions. “The Air Crash Investigation Commission continues its work. We consider it unacceptable and immoral to try to unfoundedly accuse someone and invent some conclusions before the completion of the investigation,” said Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the department.

Social media users are actively discussing the information that has appeared. “Even a person who has been at the airport at least once in his life knows that the landing gear retracts in the very first seconds of the flight, and not when the plane has already flown and climbed 450 meters”, “What a symbolic and scary tale. We are all passengers of such an aircraft. It has long been decommissioned and managed by "hell who" - this is how the Internet reacted to the alleged version of the crash.

Recall that the crash with the Tu-154 of the Ministry of Defense occurred on December 25, 2016 early in the morning. The plane was heading to the Khmeimim base on a humanitarian mission. There were 92 people on board. They all died. The tragedy claimed the lives of the artists of the Alexandrov Ensemble, the military, journalists from three TV channels and the head of the Just Help charity foundation, Elizaveta Glinka.

UPDATE
On Monday, January 16, farewell to those killed in the Tu-154 plane crash took place throughout Russia. Relatives, friends and colleagues of the victims of the terrible tragedy brought flowers to honor their memory. The heads of TV channels and representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation asked for forgiveness from the families of air passengers who died during the flight to Syria. At the same time, acquaintances of Elizabeth Glinka spoke about the importance of her work and expressed the hope that it would definitely continue.

According to the official version of the Tu-154 crash in Sochi on December 25, 2016, an orangutan turned out to be at the controls of the plane instead of a person, who began to pull the control sticks ridiculously, which led to the tragedy. If we draw a parallel with driving a car, it would look like this: the driver got behind the wheel, started off - and drove into a snowdrift. Passed back - and crushed three cars nearby. Then he drove forward - and crashed with all his dope into a dumpster, on which the trip ended.

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

But the Tu-154 recorders showed that the plane was in perfect working order. And to assume that the pilot began to take off in a dead form in front of other crew members, not suicides, does not work either. 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 an explanation - but the military leadership is desperately hiding it?

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

The weight of the excess cargo is more than 10 tons. However, at Chkalovsky, according to documents, this Tu-1542B-2 was filled with kerosene 10 tons less than a full bowl - 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 was not critical. The pilot probably noted that the takeoff there occurred 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. The tanks of the aircraft were filled with fuel already under the cork - 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 that follows gets the most logical explanation.

The plane took off from the Adler runway at a speed of 320 km/h instead of the nominal 270 km/h. Further, the rise 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 takes place on a more gentle, take-off - on a steeper one. This is necessary in order to separate the planes taking off and going to land in height - without which they would constantly be threatened with a collision in the air.

But the increase in the angle of climb led to a drop in speed - too heavy an aircraft refused to perform this maneuver. Then the pilot, probably already realizing that some kind of pig was put on him in the form of excess cargo, gave the helm away from himself in order to stop climbing and thereby gain 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 its permissible modes - which no one had done before him, since overloaded 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.

Here began a dangerous rapprochement with the water, over which there was a take-off line. The speed was already decent - 500 km / h, Volkov abruptly took the helm to raise the plane, at the same time starting a U-turn - apparently, he decided to return to the airfield. Then the irreparable happened: the plane, in response to the actions of the pilot, did not go up, but crashed into the water, scattering into fragments from a collision with it ...

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

During takeoff, no spatial orientation is required from the pilot at all. In front of him are two main instruments: an altimeter and a speed indicator, he monitors their readings without being distracted by the views outside the window ...

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

Well, 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 medicines of Dr. Lisa, who was on this flight, and not an armored personnel carrier: in a passenger plane there is no wide port for the entry of any equipment. This cargo was apparently heavy and compact enough to enter through the cargo hatch.

And what exactly - you can guess anything here: boxes of vodka, shells, gold bars, Sobyanin's tiles ... And why they decided to send it not by cargo, but by a passenger flight - there could also be any reasons. From sloppiness on the failure to send a combat cargo, which they decided to cover up gradually - to the very criminal schemes for the export of precious metals 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 stack that cannot be hidden from the eyes. But what exactly was there and what the true weight of it is - the pilots might not have known. After all, this is an army, where the order of the highest rank is above all instructions; and most likely that order was also provided with some kind of 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 committed today - when a forced person faces a choice: either earn decent money - or be left without a job and without pants.

And the famous Russian maybe at the same time, as they say, no one canceled!

Who ordered? Here, too, there can be a large scatter: from someone lieutenant colonel, deputy for armament - to Colonel General. Depending on what kind of cargo was driven onto the plane.

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

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

1. Shoigu's version of "violation of 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, but also with ten times less, takeoff is the simplest action that does not require any special skills. Here, for example, landing in difficult weather conditions is a completely different matter. The accident during the landing of the same Tu-154 from the Polish delegation near Smolensk is a typical example of the lack of skill and experience of the pilot. But when taking off on a serviceable plane, no one has ever crashed.

2. The decoding of the recorders, probably already in the first days after the tragedy, gave the whole alignment of what 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 disaster for 6 months. On his website, where detailed analyzes of all flight accidents are published, there are only two brief messages that the investigation is ongoing. And another significant passage:

“Resources of research and expert institutions have been attracted to investigate this catastrophe. Among them is the Interstate Aviation Committee, which has extensive experience in investigating accidents with Tu-154 aircraft and the necessary resources to assist in expediting 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 shut up, 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 aircraft, 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 clear to the military immediately.

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

Well, to hide it from Putin, I very much doubt it: he does not look like a person who can be circled around the finger like that. So they are hiding from the people. This 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 to it. And then a shadow on our entire army, in which such idiots are on horseback that they can ruin even the backbone of the Alexandrov ensemble with their idiocy.

Either the colonel-general, who enters the very head, is involved - and then also shame and disgrace: it turns out that through the change of Serdyukov to Shoigu, our army has not been cleansed of general outrage?

And the last thing. Remember, when we watched the film "Chapaev" as children, many of us shouted in the hall: "Chapaj, run!" Just as spontaneously, today, when everything has practically become clear with the Adler tragedy, I want to shout to the pilot Volkov: “Don't take this load! And he took it - do not take off above 200 meters above the sea!

After all, if you sort it out by a calm mind, which was not praised by a pilot who fell into a storm of circumstances, he had a chance of salvation. Namely: when reloading the aircraft, do not even try to follow the instructions that oblige you to rise to such and such a height at such and such a distance from the airfield. Break it to hell, get a reprimand for it, even if it's dismissal - but save your own life and the lives of others. That is, fly at a minimum altitude, producing fuel - and when the weight of the aircraft decreases in an hour and a half, start lifting.

Another thing that again comes to mind is that if you decide to return to Adler, do a U-turn not by a standard turn with a side roll, which dumped the plane into the sea, but by the so-called “pancake”. That is, with 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 save this plane, in the future would still be ghostly and deadly. Suppose 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 anyway - if not in this case, then in the next one, if its causes were preserved.

God grant that, as a result of this catastrophe, someone in our armed forces gives a proper blow to the brain, putting an end to the outrages that led to the inevitable outcome.

Alexander Roslyakov

An investigation has been launched into the crash of the Tu-154 in Sochi. The official version of what happened has not yet been announced. Of the previously announced causes of the disaster, they called: a bird getting into the engine, loss of orientation, refueling with low-quality fuel, and others.

People lay flowers at the building concert hall"Aleksandrovsky" in memory of those who died during the crash of the TU-154 aircraft. Moscow, Russia, December 25, 2016. Photo: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

The technical commission of the Ministry of Defense will study the issue of preparedness of the Tu-154 crew. This was announced by the head of the commission to investigate the emergency, the Minister of Transport of Russia Maxim Sokolov. “The commander of the aircraft, as we now know, had sufficient flight hours,” the minister stressed.

Flights of the Ministry of Defense from Moscow to Latakia were often carried out through Sochi. This was reported to Business FM by journalists in Latakia. The crashed TU-154 was regularly serviced and checked. In addition, it is the most common aircraft Soviet Union, it is known for its reliability, experts say. What could happen? And what other similar disasters were there?

The crashed Tu-154 was quite "fresh". Although it was released in 1983, it flew little and was regularly serviced. His total flight time is only 6,700 hours. The Tu-154 is a three-engine jet passenger aircraft that began flying in the 1960s and is now being massively decommissioned. It flies medium distances. There are two modifications of the liner: 154B can fly 2,600 kilometers, version M - 3,900. The M version is also different in that it has a new wing and more modern engines. wrecked the board was version B. Everyone in the cockpit had solid flight experience. At one of the controls sat an experienced pilot, pilot first class Roman Volkov. The navigator on this flight was Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Petukhov, who was awarded five years ago for landing a Tu-154 of the Ministry of Defense with a failed control system. This story has become very popular among Internet users. It is hard to believe that such an experienced pilot could not contact the ground, he had to do it according to the regulations even at an altitude of 200 meters. Even if the pilots had to take emergency measures, take control entirely on themselves, the navigator had to report this. Almost immediately after the crash, dispatchers' conversations appeared on the network. They tried repeatedly to contact the Tu-154, they even asked another plane in the sky to help with this. To no avail. At the same time, everything was in order with the connection before takeoff.

The plane of the Ministry of Defense crashed at five in the morning, two minutes after takeoff, that is, in the dark. In such situations, the possible loss of orientation in the dark sky by the pilot is often discussed. In 2004, a Boeing-737 of a private Egyptian airlines Air Flash, flying at night to Paris, crashed near Sharm el-Sheikh. A few minutes after takeoff, the plane crashed into the Red Sea. The pilots did not contact the dispatcher at the moment when the situation ceased to be normal, and before that they ignored one message on the air. The Commission of Inquiry did not reach a consensus on who was to blame: the pilots or the technicians. Among the alleged reasons - a technical failure or disorientation of the crew. According to the decoding of the black boxes, the plane made a U-turn in the wrong direction immediately after takeoff.

As one of the versions of the TU-154 crash in Sochi, a bird hit the engine. True, this liner has three engines, and it is not clear why this was not immediately reported to the ground. There is also an assumption in the media that the board could have been filled with low-quality fuel, but in this case the design of the Tu-154 is not taken into account. The fuel in this aircraft enters the engines from the service tank, and there it, in turn, flows from reservoirs in the wings. The service tank is not refueled, it contained fuel refueled in Moscow.

In 2006, in the same place as today, an Airbus A320 of Armavia airlines crashed. He flew from Yerevan to Sochi. During the landing approach, the plane crashed into the Black Sea near the coast and completely collapsed. Takeoff, climb and flight at flight level were normal. The weather was good throughout the flight. The plane crashed on a turn while landing. According to the report, the cause of the crash was the crew's errors during the climb attempt after receiving the dispatcher's command to go around. The wreckage was at a depth of 400 meters. It was possible to work directly in the water only on large ships. In addition, the search operation was carried out in very difficult weather conditions- heavy seas, wind, low clouds, poor visibility.

Experts then said that the black boxes would most likely not be found unless they were left in large debris. But recorders still found two days later. Tu-154 black boxes will probably take longer to find. Unlike the A320, they are not equipped with beacons, they will be searched for by radar.

The media again returned to the death of the Tu-154 near Sochi, the military aircraft in which the Alexandrov Ensemble died - as they say, the cultural symbol of the Russian army, and Elizabeth Glinka- Dr. Lisa, Mother Teresa of our Northern Spaces. And several more teams of journalists died, a total of 92 people.

The Tu-154 flew from Moscow, from the Chkalovsky military airfield to Syria, to Damascus to raise the morale of the personnel of the Russian Aerospace Forces at the Khmeimim air base on the eve of the New Year.

The flight was like a flight, the crew under the command of the pilot Volkova I have flown this route many times. At the Chkalovsky military airfield, near Moscow, it is known that this is a military airfield, the mouse, it would seem, will not slip through, everyone boarded. The plane flew to Damascus over the Caspian Sea, then had to refuel in Mozdok, fly over Iran, Iraq and through all of Syria to Damascus.

But this time Mozdok was closed and the board flew to refuel in Adler over the Caucasus, from the Caspian to the Black Sea. For an airplane, it’s like for a car to go to refuel at the nearest gas station, well, let’s refuel at another, by the standards air transport- by hand.

In Adler, the plane refueled, and supposedly no one got off and boarded the plane in Adler. They took off, and after a couple of minutes they disappeared from the radar. And then they found the wreckage of the Tu-154 in the Black Sea.

The newspapers wrote about all this in detail immediately after December 25. And about Tu already seems to be forgotten. And suddenly, just before the murder in Kyiv Voronenkov, and before the bulk riots in Moscow, suddenly again, look, a new portion of supposedly information about the death of the Tu-154.

More precisely, this is not new information, but an interpretation of some of the information that we already had.

Apparently, somewhere in the high spheres of management of our mental health, they decided that the version of the pilot's error, which we have been carefully sticking out all these months, looks unconvincing and now they add interpretations.

I remembered the main claims to the pilots.

They (in fact, we are talking about one, the main pilot - the flight commander Volkov) are accused of things hitherto unheard of in the investigation of the death of aircraft, namely:

- loss of orientation in space;

- in the illusory perception of reality;

The flight was at night and therefore difficult.

Say, the commander of the Volkov ship (now they began to say that the 4 thousand hours he had flown were not enough to call him an experienced pilot, and earlier they said that Volkov was experienced), mistook the stars reflected in the sea for the stars in the sky and behaved accordingly, began to decline, instead of taking off.

Against such defamation of their dead comrade, fellow pilots were indignant. Some significant part of them.

They said that night flying is a common thing and half of the flights are night, nothing extraordinary.

That in a night flight the commander of the ship “looks only at the instruments”, because what kind of stars are there! That the Tu-154 has a large flight team, that several crew members continuously report to the commander both the altitude and everything that is needed.

True, among fellow pilots there were those who actually blamed the pilot for the death of Tu, one “comrade” said so, I already quoted him that 4 thousand flown flights are not enough, he romantically said that “only after 10 thousand flown flights the pilot begins to feel bird."

Returning to the wording given in the media, in particular, to these “loss of orientation in space” and to “illusory perception of reality”, I said to myself: let me, but these are symptoms of what happens to a pilot during an electronic attack.

The version of an electronic attack was once dismissed by the investigation.

But she was. And supporters of this version referred to interesting data.

On the eve of the tragedy, it turns out that the French reconnaissance ship Dupuy de Lome entered the Black Sea, which can cut down all the electronics of the aircraft with a radio pulse.

The authors of the version claimed that an electronic attack on the Tu-154 could have been launched from this ship. Russia also has means of electronic jamming, argued supporters of the version, they say, nothing fantastic, but the aircraft was military, so those who carried out the attack might not feel like bloodsuckers and murderers.

The status of the flight was the highest that exists (a military ensemble, even a conductor, a lieutenant general, a flight to Syria, and similar international political importance).

The nature of the wreckage and the nature of the injuries inflicted on the bodies (divers claimed that they were finely-finely chopped into gruel), as well as the scattering of debris over a long distance, indicate an explosion on board. If the plane had broken into the water, the wreckage would have been large. And the bodies would not have been finely chopped.

And finally, even the fact that in the morning all civilian ships were forbidden to go to sea in that area, and another fact: the National Guard was posted at the coastline, they say that they are hiding from us the true cause of Tu's death.

And now the second portion of misinformation. Apparently, they decided at the top that you and I may still have doubts about the veracity of the accusations of the pilots in everything.

Therefore, they are additionally blamed on them. A well-known technique in the criminal world - murders are always hung on dead comrades.

Now about the airfield in Chkalovsky.

Pilot Krasnoperov: “I flew from Chkalovsky to the east. And there was no screening, with security much worse than at civilian airports.

Writer Limonov: “And I flew from Chkalovsky ... There was no inspection, they didn’t look at passports, they didn’t check luggage. Okay, I a famous person, but there were three guards with me, and they didn’t demand their passports, nor did they check their luggage.”

Early in the morning of December 25, a Tu-154 aircraft flying to Syria, carrying 92 people, crashed into the Black Sea, one and a half kilometers from the coast of Sochi. This is the crew, military personnel, journalists and musicians of the Alexandrov Ensemble.

Four ships, four helicopters, an airplane and an unmanned aerial vehicle were immediately involved in the search operation. aircraft. And by 15.00, the group of specialists working on the spot amounted to more than three thousand people.

For the organization of operational management, coordination of rescue forces and the delivery of relatives to the crash site, operational groups were deployed and began to work at the Chkalovsky and Adler airfields and in the port of Sochi.

Having learned about the approximate crash site (although it was immediately clear that it was somewhere in the sea and quite far from the coast), not only rescuers, law enforcement officers, doctors, journalists, but also ordinary residents of the seaside city began to converge on the coast of the Khostinsky district of the city. While on a rather calm surface of the sea in a place where there was an oily trail, a cluster of boats, ships and helicopters was observed, Sochi residents crowded at the water's edge, despite the early hour. Another part of the residents simply stopped their cars at the side of the road and watched what was happening from above, from the junction. Only one thing united such "spectators" - silence.

I heard about what was happening on the radio, I was shocked. I worked all night, I'm tired, but I'll stand still. I don't even know why. I want to help, but I don't know how. I heard that sometimes the waves carried the victims to the shore. But now, of course, it is unlikely. Complete calm, - says Andrey, a taxi driver from Sochi.

An hour and a half later, several traffic police units arrived here (to the surprise of those present, with machine guns at the ready). People in uniform politely asked to leave so as not to create traffic jams. Indeed, a few minutes later, in the direction of the local airport, where the headquarters of the Russian Ministry of Defense settled, several dozen ambulances and rescuers set off.

And after a couple of hours, news feeds were blown up by a message about a terrible find - the wreckage of the chassis and the first bodies. There was also a list of those on board. It contains 92 names. Among them are 8 crew members, 8 military personnel, nine media employees (three each from the Zvezda TV channel, NTV and Channel One), the head of the Fair Aid Foundation, Elizaveta Glinka, two civil servants and 64 musicians of the Alexandrov Ensemble.

Soon a criminal case was opened under an article on violation of flight safety rules or preparation for them. Of course, a lot of versions have also matured. So, the chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Viktor Ozerov, immediately stated that the cause could be a technical malfunction or piloting error. And he immediately ruled out the possibility of a terrorist attack.

I completely rule out the terrorist attack version. Ministry of Defense aircraft air space Russian Federation, there cannot be such a version here, Ozerov is sure. - The plane was supposed to make a U-turn over the sea after takeoff, maybe it did not reach the desired trajectory.

Click to enlarge. Infographics WG / Alexander Smirnov / Yuri Gavrilov

True, a little later, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, said that the aircraft was flown by an experienced pilot Roman Alexandrovich Volkov (first-class pilot, the total flight time was about 3.5 thousand hours), and the aircraft was released in 1983. The total flight time of the liner was about 7 thousand hours. Moreover, according to official information, the last repair took place on December 29, 2014, and in September the aircraft underwent scheduled maintenance. The reliability of this model of the liner was also confirmed by experienced mechanics, who could not at all remember the incident with the Tu-154. That is, in fact, the possibility of pilot error and aircraft malfunction is quite small.

In turn, other, no longer official, versions began to spread. For example, birds that damaged the ship were almost immediately swept aside - they say that at such an early time they practically do not fly.

Experts promised to carry out work on lifting bodies and debris from the depths around the clock

Meanwhile, if there was no storm on the sea in the morning, then by the middle of the day weather forecasters issued warnings about increased wind and possible snowfall. However, experts promised to carry out work on lifting bodies and debris from the depths around the clock.

In turn, the regional operational headquarters, created by the decision of the Governor of Kuban Veniamin Kondratiev, first of all began preparing accommodation for the relatives of the victims arriving in Sochi, organizing transfers from the airport to hotels for them. Already prepared for the reception and several local sanatoriums of the Ministry of Defense. Plus, the medical services of the region have deployed additional points of psychological assistance at the airport and places of accommodation for relatives of the victims of the disaster.

Iosif Kobzon: "They were flying on a combat mission..."

For these talented and courageous people, it seems that there were no barriers in life, they were not afraid of anything and overcame any difficulties. The Alexandrov Ensemble was considered in the world one of the symbols modern Russia: strong, sincere, calm and able to always support people with a good song and that confidence in their undoubted strengths that came from these strong and sincere men and beautiful, surprisingly bright women.

The soloists of the ensemble, its orchestra, dancers, choir - for many years we were friends with them in " Russian newspaper", the artists came to visit us, performed for our readers and editorial guests. As always, they performed in the most distant garrisons. And most of all, the musicians themselves and the leaders of the band in our conversations were proud, by the way, not that more than once traveled around the globe with concerts, namely, performances for Russian soldiers and officers. No longer in large halls of many thousands, as in Europe, but in army houses of culture and at all - in field conditions. And we, journalists, visited them, and at different performances.

We even made friends with someone personally, sometimes arguing about what a modern song should be, so that it still carries light and warmth, inspires our souls, and even, maybe, "helps build and live", and was not one-day singing , which are now in abundance on the stage. They talked about the classics - that thanks to the performance by the "Aleksandrovtsy" it becomes more understandable and close even to those who did not love it before ... So the soloists of the ensemble sang the great Russian romances in such a way that everyone in the hall also wanted to become a little kinder , wiser and cleaner...

During its long almost 90-year history, the Alexandrov Ensemble has proved that it can perform any piece in such a way that the hall will again be sold out. And how did the soloist of the ensemble Vladislav Golikov sing in other - more familiar and beloved all over the world - "Alexander" concerts the military song "On a sunny meadow"?!

Or Victor Sanin, who conquered Quebec and was a soloist with the "Aleksandrovtsy" at the International Festival of Military Bands - how he sang free " Amur waves"?! All of them, too, are in the "List of passengers of the fallen Tu-154"

However, there is still at least a small hope that someone is still alive, I want to believe in it, hope and pray...

They flew for a report

On board the fallen Tu-154, in addition to other passengers, there were three film crews - Channel One, NTV and the Zvezda channel. All channels have changed their broadcast schedule due to the terrible tragedy.

Among the employees of the First Channel, who were on board the Tu-154 military aircraft that crashed in the Black Sea, were correspondent Dmitry Runkov, cameraman Vadim Denisov and sound engineer Alexander Soydov.

On its website, the channel writes that Dmitry Runkov was only 30 years old. Dima began his career as a TV journalist in his native Arkhangelsk, five years ago he moved to St. Petersburg. "Whatever topic Dima subsequently takes up - be it the snow-covered Vostochny Cosmodrome or the hot water area mediterranean sea, from where our missile-carrying ships fired at terrorists in Syria, these were always vivid and understandable stories. Explaining complex things in simple terms is the real art of a reporter," his colleagues say about him.

On duty, Dmitry often had to deal with military topics. This is not only live shooting: Dmitry made reports on the rehearsal of the Victory Parade and historical reconstructions.

Vadim Denisov has been working on Channel One since 2002. He worked twice in Syria, was awarded state awards. The plot of Channel One, which appeared on the day of the tragedy, tells how he went on one of the Syrian business trips with his colleague Klim Sanatkin literally for one day, but it turned out for two weeks. The militants closed the encirclement, preventing the film crew from being withdrawn. So the guys did not get on the helicopter, which was eventually destroyed by the terrorists. A cameraman with great experience, a highly qualified specialist, a trouble-free person. Vadim did not refuse this time either. This time he was not supposed to fly to Syria. It was an unplanned departure, to which he immediately agreed. Vadim Denisov is survived by his wife and three children.

Alexander Soydov was 33, married, with two children. He was into music. Alexander, just like Vadim Denisov, this time went to Syria outside of school hours, he also could not refuse. He worked on Channel One for 10 years.

The first channel changed the broadcasting schedule in connection with the incident: on Sunday, December 25, the final of the entertainment show "Just Like It" was removed from the air, as well as promo videos for New Year's projects and screensavers dedicated to upcoming holidays. In addition, the live broadcast of the finale of the intellectual and entertainment program "What? Where? When?" was removed from the air. Because of the incident, the channel also postponed the secular premiere of the historical epic "Viking" - it was supposed to take place in Moscow early next week.

The NTV channel also reported that its journalists were on board the Tu-154. According to the channel, this is a correspondent - NTV producer Mikhail Luzhetsky, cameraman Oleg Pestov and sound engineer Evgeny Tolstov. Sound engineer Evgeny Tolstov, before the flight from Chkalovsk near Moscow, posted on his page in social network Facebook post in which he announced that he was going to Latakia.

NTV also announced that it had changed the broadcasting schedule - the channel took off the air the evening edition of the Kinoshou program and the new film This Is What Happens to Me, in which the main role was played by Gosha Kutsenko. The channel launched breaking news releases and removed entertainment announcements.

According to confirmed data, three journalists from the Zvezda TV channel were on board the crashed Tu-154. Correspondent Pavel Obukhov, cameraman Alexander Suranov and assistant cameraman Valery Rzhevsky. In connection with the tragedy that occurred with the Tu-154, the Zvezda TV channel also changed the broadcasting schedule. Entertainment TV programs are canceled (including the new program "This Morning"), advertising. During the period of mourning, the grid will be filled with military-patriotic films. News comes out every hour.

condolences

The capital will help the relatives of the victims

The Moscow government will provide the necessary assistance to the relatives and friends of the passengers of the Tu-154, which crashed off the coast of Sochi. About this the mayor of the capital Sergey Sobyanin reported on your Twitter page.

"Condolences to the families of those on board the crashed plane. A terrible tragedy," he wrote. "Instructed the Department of Social Security to provide the necessary assistance."

List of Tu-154 passengers

Crew:

Major Volkov R.A.,
Captain Rovensky A.V.,
lieutenant colonel Petukhov A.N.,
Captain Mamonov A.V.,
senior lieutenant
Hairdressers V.N.,
major Tregubov V.A.,
senior lieutenant Sushkov B.C.,
senior lieutenant Sukhanov A.O.

Military personnel:

Lieutenant General Khalilov V.M.,
Colonel Khasanov A.B.,
Colonel Vaganov N.I.,
Colonel Ivanov A.Yu.,
lieutenant colonel Kolosovsky A.V.,
major Dolinsky A.I.,
Colonel Negrub A.N.,
captain Abrosimov S.S.

Civil Servants:

Gubankov A.N.
Badrutdinova O.T.

International public organization "Fair Aid":

Glinka E.P.

Runkov D.A.,
Denisov V.V.,
Soydov A.A.,
Luzhetsky M.V.,
Obukhov P.K.,
Pestov O.M.,
Rzhevsky V.V.,
Suranov A.A.,
Tolstov E.V.

Ensemble them. Alexandrova:

Sonnikov A.V.,
Guzhova L.A.,
Ivashko A.N.,
Brodsky V.A.,
Bulochnikov E.V.,
Golikov V.V.,
Osipov G.L.,
Sanin V.V.,
Mayorov K.V.,
Buryachenko B.B.,
Babovnikov D.V.,
Bazdyrev A.K.,
Belonozhko D.M.,
Beschastnov D.A.,
Vasin M.A.,
Georgiyan O.P.,
Davidenko K.A.,
Deniskin S.I.,
Zhuravlev P.V.,
Zakirov P.P.,
Ivanov M.A.,
Ivanov A.V.,
Kotlyar S.A.,
Kochemasov A.S.,
Krivtsov A.A.,
Litvyakov D.N.,
Mokrikov A.O.,
Morgunov A.A.,
Nasibulin Zh.A.,
Novokshanov Yu.M.,
Polyakov V.V.,
Saveliev A.V.,
Sokolovsky A.V.,
Tarasenko A.N.,
Trofimov A.S.,
Uzlovsky A.A.,
Khalimon V.L.,
Shtuko A.A.,
Kryuchkov I.A.,
Ermolin V.I.,
Bykov S.L.,
Kolobrodov K.A.,
Korzanov O.V.,
Larionov I.F.,
Lyashenko K.I.,
Mikhalin V.K.,
staff Sergeant
Popov V.A.,
Razumov A.A.,
Serov A.S.,
Shakhov I.V.,
Archukova A.A.,
Gilmanova P.P.,
Ignatieva N.V.,
Klokotova M.A.,
Korzanova E.I.,
Pyreva L.A.,
Satarova V.I.,
Trofimova D.S.,
Khorosheva L.N.,
Tsvirinko A.I.,
Shagun O.Yu.,
Gurar L.I.,
Sulimanov B.R.,
Stolyar I.V.

condolences

President Vladimir Putin, who is on a working trip to St. Petersburg these days, expressed his condolences to the families of the victims. "Tomorrow a nationwide mourning will be declared in Russia," he said. This will also affect the program of Putin himself. Today he was supposed to attend a musical light show on Palace Square, but due to mourning, he canceled his participation in the event.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev addressed the families and relatives of the victims of the air crash with words of grief: "This terrible tragedy claimed the lives of people full of strength and plans. Among the dead are journalists, military personnel and musicians of the famous Alexandrov ensemble. They flew to Syria with very kind and peace mission. This heavy loss is impossible to accept, it is irreparable. great sorrow shared by millions."

The President instructed the head of government to form a commission that will study the circumstances of the incident. "A thorough investigation into the causes of the disaster will be carried out and everything will be done to support the families of the victims," Putin assured.

By order of Dmitry Medvedev, representatives of all key departments were included in the government commission. Its work was headed by the Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov, who immediately flew to Sochi.

Identification by relatives of the dead will take place in Moscow, there is no need to fly to Sochi. All relatives are asked to come to the Ministry of Defense for the collection of genetic material and the identification procedure. The necessary phone numbers and addresses of laboratories where the examination will take place will be posted in the media and on the websites of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

This was the head of the government commission created to provide assistance to the victims and families of those killed in the disaster, the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov.

The crash happened in the morning, a lot was done during daylight hours, but the search and rescue operation continued in the evening, Sokolov said. "It is very important now to provide assistance to the relatives of the passengers of this aircraft. But I want to draw everyone's attention to the fact that the main events and the entire organization of work with relatives, by decision of the government commission, will be held in Moscow at the Ministry of Defense," Sokolov said.

According to him, in Sochi, although a number of bodies and fragments have already been found, such work will not be carried out. The search and rescue operation will last around the clock for as long as necessary, the minister assured, stressing that the search is complicated by the fact that the disaster occurred at sea. According to the minister, "there is no information about the survivors yet."

The search for bodies and fragments of the aircraft will be carried out with the help of special devices, light barges, ships with special locators and deep-sea search vehicles. "We will try to do everything so that the bodies are found," Sokolov said.

Divers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and deep-sea descent vehicles, as well as deep-seated locators arrive to continue the search operation. Yesterday, two such depth locators were already working in the search area. Another locator is due to arrive this morning from Gelendzhik, and more ships from Novorossiysk will arrive towards the end of the day on Monday, the minister said.

Unfortunately, the flight recorders of this Tu-154 aircraft are not equipped with radio beacons. They will be searched for, like other fragments of the aircraft. Sokolov expressed the hope that they survived.

The search for bodies and fragments of the aircraft will be carried out with the help of special devices, light barges

The technical commission of the Ministry of Defense is engaged in establishing the causes of the disaster as part of a criminal investigation. The Investigative Committee is working out the whole range of versions of the causes of the crash, Sokolov noted, but it is premature to say what exactly led to the disaster.

The Technical Commission of the Russian Ministry of Defense is investigating the issue of preparedness of the crew of the crashed Tu-154 aircraft. The commander of the aircraft, as is now known, had sufficient flying hours, the minister stressed.

The issue of further use of Tu-154 aircraft is not yet on the agenda. As the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neradko, who is also a member of the government commission, clarified, the Tu-154 is not in operation. civil aviation. This type of aircraft is in service with the Ministry of Defense, and this department will decide how to continue operating the Tu-154.

In particular, to stop it or carry out additional work with the fleet of these aircraft for further flights on them. But all this needs to be decided after an analysis of the existing circumstances, which the technical commission has just begun, Neradko added.

The commandant of the Moscow Kremlin, Lieutenant-General Sergei Khlebnikov, told RG about his friendship with the artistic director of the Alexandrov Ensemble Valery Khalilov, who died in the Black Sea.

Sergei Khlebnikov: We have known Valery Mikhailovich Khalilov for almost 13 years. It so happened that at one time he was appointed head of the military orchestra service of the Ministry of Defense, and I was appointed commandant of the Moscow Kremlin. And since then we have cooperated very closely: in preparation for military parades on Red Square, we held music festivals. Moscow International Festival "Ode to Peace", in particular.

And then they decided that the country needed a major military music festival. And Valery Mikhailovich stood at the origins of this festival, which today is called the Spasskaya Tower.

We can recall your recent meetings and contacts with Valery Mikhailovich. What did you plan, what did you argue about?

Sergei Khlebnikov: In January, after the New Year holidays, we wanted to get together. On Old New Year planned to congratulate him, as well as the director of the festival with the government prize. The other day Valery Mikhailovich received it. They wanted to discuss plans for August, approve the idea of the anniversary festival, this is his favorite brainchild.

Our condolences to his wife and the whole family - he has a big friendly family.

I want to say that everyone who knew him, when the news of the tragedy came, at first hoped for something. Then there was shock, sorrow ... My phone literally bursts: many knew that we were not only working with him, but also friends. People close to us died on this plane, including Anton Nikolaevich Gubankov, head of the culture department of the Ministry of Defense. No one will be left out of this grief, of course. And the festival "Spasskaya Tower" will not remain, we will help relatives and friends to somehow withstand this blow. We sympathize with all the dead.

Despite the fact that the loss is irreparable, but life goes on. In March, a concert by Valery Mikhailovich Khalilov was planned in Berlin. We will do our best to make this concert happen. He wrote a lot musical works: marches, symphonies, romances. These works will live forever.

Sergei Dmitrievich, now there is operational information on the tapes and on the air, there are a lot of inaccuracies. Valery Khalilov, out of habit, is called the chief conductor of the Ministry of Defense. But since the spring of this year, he has led the legendary Alexandrov Ensemble. Probably, not everyone remembers that Mireille Mathieu opened this particular team for our country. It was during his tour in Paris in 1961: the French impresario came out to our musicians and said that he had a very good girl with a beautiful voice. Persuaded to perform together. It was Mireille Mathieu.

Sergei Khlebnikov: Recently I was in France on business of the festival. They recalled this story with the Alexandrov Ensemble. And they even wanted to repeat it. Because this ensemble was assigned a role as one of the prominent participants in the next anniversary Spasskaya Tower.

Mireille Mathieu has repeatedly said that she cannot help but worry before performances on Red Square, but she is calmed when conductor Valery Khalilov is between her and hundreds of musicians. As she said: "Thanks to him, there is a symbiosis between me and the musicians." Have you contacted Mireille Mathieu? Does she already know about the tragedy?

Sergei Khlebnikov: Condolences have already come from close people who are in contact with her.

There is a website of the Spasskaya Tower. In fact, there is a virtual museum of the festival on it. Is there any idea to dedicate a separate section to Khalilov? Of course, he often hit the lenses, but photographs prevail when Valery Mikhailovich is in full dress, with a conductor's baton. It would be great to see pictures of this amazing person in an informal setting.

Sergei Khlebnikov: I'll pass it on to management. Now let's recover a bit from the shock and do it. Good, correct suggestion. I'm also sorting through his photos in my archive. He smiles at many...

Direct speech

Valery Khalilov, two days before the disaster, gave an interview to RG about new year holiday of his childhood.

By the end of the year, a special issue of "RG-Week" was being prepared, in which famous people talk about the Christmas trees of their childhood. One of our interlocutors was a lieutenant general, a Russian military conductor. He, as always, in conversation was friendly, correct, never complained about the lack of time - and this despite his great employment. Open to communication: at any moment, whenever we called him, he was always like that. And today these words - alas - can be considered his last congratulations on the New Year:

As a child, gifts were not placed under the Christmas tree, but under the pillow. But every evening on December 31, I went to bed impatiently, and every morning on January 1, I put my hand under the pillow and took out a gray paper bag with cookies, sweets and tangerines. We were not particularly spoiled then, our parents had no choice, but the tangerine smell in me since then has been closely associated with the New Year tree.

Prepared by Susanna Alperina, Andrey Vasyanin

Dry lines from the website of the Ministry of Defense: in the list of passengers of the crashed plane, the head of the international public organization Fair Aid, Elizaveta Glinka. I don’t want to believe it, so many people were left destitute by this death, so great is the loss for the most unfortunate in this world: the children of Donbass and Syria, the homeless, oncology-sick kids in Kiev, where she opened a private hospice.

In the last interview six months ago, we talked with her about what in this life can make her stop saving people. Her answer then shocked her with harsh laconism: "Only a bullet." At the same time, with tears in her voice, unusual for a strong person who was accustomed to the loss of a person, she recalled the crew of pilot Leonid Filin, who died in a plane crash while extinguishing fires in Irkutsk. It was with him that Dr. Liza transported the sick and wounded children of Donbass from Rostov to Moscow. She said she grieved beyond measure. All these details are now lining up in a bitter chain of foreboding tragedy.

With Liza - Elizaveta Petrovna - it was very easy and difficult for the journalist at the same time. She had no time to talk, but if she saw that you wanted to help, she immediately included you in her orbit of people tuned to volunteer service and switched to "you".

Dr. Lisa escorted humanitarian cargo for a hospital in Latakia

"Do you want to see how we work? Come on Wednesday at five to Paveletsky. Don't be afraid. We'll give you a mask and gloves. Don't be late."

"Why do you, successful, wealthy, happy, need degraded and bad-smelling bums? What are you doing with them?" - I asked Lisa many times. "I love people," she answered, and looked sternly with her huge eyes.

The social partnership, which everyone remembered today, has been concrete for her for twenty years already: hospices, the "House of Mercy" for families from Ukraine, meals for the poor, now here is Syria. On the crashed plane, Lisa was flying, escorting humanitarian cargo for the university hospital in Tishrin in Latakia.

She looked like a front-line surgeon: time is life. The voice is low, for all its fragility, very businesslike and at first glance not at all romantic.

It was felt that he could not stand what we, journalists, expect from conversations with such people: no sentimental stories, no lisping and sobbing over "poor bums." I remember very well how I abruptly cut off an attempt to compare her with another Doctor who helped sick prisoners in prisons and hard labor in the century before last: "Doctor Haaz is a saint, and I am an ordinary woman." And she began to bandage the purulent wound of the old homeless man ...

Wise, fair, imperturbable, as if she was no longer surprised at anything.

But she could not let children with war wounds pass through her heart without emotions. She said how she cried that they were a real shock for her. She listed how she prayed: Vanya Voronov, Oksana Voynarovskaya, four-year-old Yastrebov Bogdan, Yulia Kurenkova with a severe hip injury from Gorlovka...

They are not the only ones crying. Thousands of people, Dr. Lisa, not only helped to survive by dressing and feeding. I was encouraged by my attitude: there will be more happiness in their lives, they are needed and loved, simply because they are people.

This hope, so necessary for any person, could not be forgiven by the Facebook scoundrels who, in Lately wished Lisa death. She answered them long ago: “In any manifestation of feelings, a measure is needed. And if this measure is not present, then a barrier or border is crossed, beyond which is emptiness. And this emptiness is slowly occupied by a hell created by hatred. pulls to the bottom. It seems to me that you need to follow your word, observing the basic law of medicine - noli nocere - do no harm. To yourself and those around you. But the essence is simple. You just need to love people. Hatred is unnatural. "

From the "RG" dossier

In order not to bother fashion journalists who were interested in the cult figure of the Russian Internet, Lisa published repeated questions and her answers. She treated it with humor. Even to the last one.

- Who is your makeup artist?

I don't have it.

- When did you have time to give birth to children?

I tried very hard and succeeded.

- What are your perfumes?

Balmain de Balmain.

- If you were a flower, what would it be?

Lavender.

- Do you really love everyone?

No it is not true. Some I love very much.

- How many hours do you sleep at night?

5-6. That's enough for me.

- Aren't you afraid that someday you will be beaten?

The body of Elizabeth Glinka has not been found, so there is no official confirmation of her death yet.