New in the investigation of the crash of Tu 154. “Is that a collective insanity. Heavy and uncontrollable
"The Commission for the Investigation of the Aviation Accident in the Sochi Airport area, which included representatives of Russia along with the experts of the Russian Ministry of Defense, and also completed the investigation of the Tu-154 plane crash that occurred on December 25, 2016," the military department said in a statement.
The experts carefully analyzed all the circumstances preceding the disaster, and also studied the technical parameters of the Tu-154 flight from the moment of departure from Sochi airport.
“According to the results of the investigation, it was established that
the cause of the accident could be a violation of the spatial orientation (situational awareness) of the aircraft commander, which led to his erroneous actions with the aircraft control bodies, "the military department emphasizes.
The commission did not find "violations of the current requirements regarding the seating of passengers in the Tu-154 cabin, as well as the loading and centering of the transported cargo, the weight of which was 150 kilograms."
"Also, no violations of the rules for refueling an aircraft at the airport in Sochi or the impact of external factors have been established," the Ministry of Defense concluded.
"Suicidal actions of the commander"
The Tu-154 of the Ministry of Defense, which was heading for Syria, crashed shortly after refueling at Adler airport on the morning of December 25, 2016. On board there were 92 people - eight crew members and 84 passengers, including eight servicemen, 64 employees of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after Alexandrov, nine representatives of Russian television channels, the head of the Fair Help charity Elizaveta Glinka, known as Doctor Lisa, two federal civil servants. The remains of the dead and the wreckage of the liner were found at the bottom of the Black Sea, 1.7 km from the coast.
According to the Kommersant newspaper, the participants in the investigation of the Tu-154 crash over the Black Sea on December 25, 2016 managed to restore the picture of what happened literally second by second. On that day, the airliner belonging to the Ministry of Defense was supposed to make two so-called training flights to transport troops (passengers), equipment and cargo. The first one - from Chkalovsky to Sochi - went absolutely normally, without causing any difficulties for the crew. But the second - from Sochi to Syrian Latakia - did not work out from the very beginning.
the commander of the Tu-154 Roman Volkov "began to experience difficulties in determining its location" on the ground, while moving the car along the taxiways.
He could not understand in any way from which of the two strips of the airfield he would have to take off and which way was better to taxi to the beginning of this strip. An escort car helped him to get to the starting point.
As the commander of the Tu-154 ship, who has extensive experience in operating this type of aircraft, explained to Gazeta.Ru, “such conclusions of the experts look far-fetched. The commander of the ship, Roman Volkov, could not experience any difficulties in determining his location at the Adler airport. It is absolutely normal practice for the plane to take the escort car out before the executive start. ”
According to the aviator, during takeoff and landing at some airports, in particular in the United Arab Emirates, it is practically impossible for the crew to independently reach the parking lot or takeoff site without an escort vehicle. And this car is served before the start of taxiing, and not at the request of a pilot lost in the taxiways.
According to media reports, at 5.24 am the liner took off with a course of 238 °. However, already in the seventh second after take-off, as investigators believe, Commander Volkov began emotionally, using profanity, to find out from the crew exactly which course they took off.
At the same time, according to experts, he missed the control over the take-off parameters himself, and even distracted his colleagues from the work.
According to the interlocutor of Gazeta.Ru, the commander of the Tu-154, this also looks doubtful. On the Tu-154, the navigator coordinates the compass, the commander reports to the dispatcher “Ready for takeoff!”, And the crew does not experience any difficulties with the takeoff course. Moreover, in Adler there is only one course - towards the sea.
Immediately after takeoff, setting the car to the correct pitch of 15 °, the major made the first, as the participants in the investigation believe, illogical action. He pushed the steering wheel away from him, thus slowing down the climb. Further, at the 53rd second of the flight, when the plane climbed only 157 m, Volkov ordered his subordinates to remove the flaps, while according to the regulations, their cleaning was supposed to be at an altitude of 500 m.
At the same time, he himself continued to deflect the steering wheel away from him. As a result, the car, being at the 231 m mark, went down.
As the pilots explained to Gazeta.Ru, the commander of a ship during takeoff usually monitors the increase in speed and altitude; he does not particularly care about the pitch angle. However, further actions of the commander of the ship Roman Volkov are inadequate and really defy any logical explanation. It is possible that he experienced pressing forces at the steering wheel. But in this case, it is completely incomprehensible why the second pilot of the crew, the right pilot, did not interfere in the control process of the aircraft. At least by voice, he had to warn the commander about his erroneous actions. Why the ship commander brought the vehicle to negative pitch angles, experienced pilots cannot explain in any way.
Experienced pilots explained to Gazeta.Ru that
in this case, the actions of the commander can only be interpreted taking into account one circumstance - Roman Volkov felt that the aircraft's speed was not increasing, and tried to transfer the aircraft to level flight.
Finally, as they wrote in the media, “the navigator, feeling how the overloads from the usual positive during takeoff suddenly became negative, said:“ Wow, e-my! ”. After that, the plane began to intensively, at 6-8 m / s, lose altitude, a siren went off, warning the crew about a dangerous approach to the surface, and the corresponding red board flashed. However, none of the pilots paid attention to this. The navigator's reply with the use of profanity, who a little later nevertheless suspected something was wrong, also remained unanswered.
The members of the Tu-154 crews interviewed by Gazeta.Ru showed that it is simply impossible not to pay attention to the operation of the siren warning the aviators of a dangerous approach to the ground. There is a sound that can wake up the dead.
“The actions of the commander, meanwhile, became not only strange, but, in fact, suicidal: the plane, which was going into a turn with a slight right bank of about 10 °, abruptly turned the plane into a steep left bank of 53 °. Taking into account this maneuver, the decline went three times faster ",
After the plane at the 70th second of the flight was only 90 m from the surface of the water, while descending every second another 20 m lower and continuing to go with a large left bank, even an experienced pilot could not get the car out of the descent in such a situation. - a tester, experts say.
At an altitude of 67 m, the alarm “Left roll is great” went off, and when 34 m remained to the water, commander Volkov, presumably in an attempt to correct his mistake, turned the steering wheel all the way to the right.
“This action of his, however, no longer made sense: on the 73rd second of the flight, the car, hitting the surface of the sea with its left wing, fell apart and sank. At the time of the collision, the left roll was about 50 °, and the indicated speed was 540 km / h, ”the newspaper writes.
Fatigue and excess weight
Experts named fatigue and poor professional training of the crew as factors accompanying the disaster. So, the commission rejected the version about low-quality fuel and the impact of external factors. The commission did not reveal either "violations of the current requirements concerning the seating of passengers in the Tu-154 cabin, as well as the loading and centering of the transported cargo." According to investigators, the catastrophe could have occurred due to a violation of the spatial orientation of the commander, which led to his erroneous actions while navigating the ship.
As the pilots and navigators who flew on the Tu-154 explained to Gazeta.Ru, in principle, it is impossible to lose spatial orientation on an aircraft of this type.
Moreover, immediately after take-off, the crew translates their views to the instruments and only on them carries out the further flight. And if we take into account that the crew took off on December 25 in the dark, then, in principle, he could not observe the surrounding landscape and the horizon line.
It is a pity that everyone is blamed on the ship's commander, say the aviators interviewed by Gazeta.Ru. According to them, this is the easiest way to do it, because the dead can no longer answer and will not tell anything.
Despite the fact that the official point of view has been named, the reasons for what happened are more likely the following, aviation experts interviewed by Gazeta.Ru almost unanimously agree.
The takeoff weight of the Tu-154 aircraft exceeded the limit and was equal to approximately 114 tons (56 tons empty weight, almost 40 tons of fuel to return from Khmeimim to the departure airport without refueling in Syria, plus 16-18 tons of commercial load).
It is possible to take off with such a weight of the aircraft and continue the trouble-free flight. Experienced aviators told Gazeta.Ru that in this case it was necessary to take off from the last slab of the runway and then go “pancake”, that is, with a minimum climb of no more than 1-3 m per second, as well as all the time monitor the speed, or rather, its growth. And thus, little by little, gain altitude. Particular attention is paid to the retraction of mechanization, flaps and slats. If at the same time the speed begins to drop, then stop cleaning and return the machine to level flight. It was better to accelerate an aircraft with such weight characteristics to at least 360 km / h, and only then retract the flaps.
If Roman Volkov can be blamed for anything, it is only a lack of experience in operating an overweight machine.
He should have felt the weight of the plane when the plane was pulled away from the parking lot in Adler, since in this case he had to bring the engine operating mode to takeoff. Apparently, Volkov realized that the plane was overweight and therefore, when talking with Adler's dispatcher, he requested take-off from the very beginning of the runway.
So far there is no definite answer whether the crew had a certificate for in-flight flights (that is, whether it could carry passengers) and whether a loading list was drawn up, which should have indicated the weight of fuel and payload.
As for the crew fatigue, named by the officials, this indicates that there were significant violations on the part of the flight organization.
As far as we know, the crew arrived from the Far East before the flight, no one really controlled their rest, the pilots waited a long time for loading and passengers. But the aviators tell Gazeta.Ru that it could not have fatal consequences.
Among other things, as it became known to Gazeta.Ru from sources close to the investigation of the plane crash, great difficulties in the course of the work of the commission arose with the means of objective control. One of the recorders was replaced shortly before the disaster during one of the Tu-154 flights to Siberia, but it was never calibrated. And the second one was not quite efficient. These factors had a significant impact on the speed of the investigation.
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, the emergency situation came as a complete surprise to 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 quickly pulled themselves together and tried to save the plane until the last seconds.
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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The crash with the Tu-154 B-2 with 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.
Independent technical expert Yuri Antipov again reviewed the main version of the plane crash and presented arguments that refute it.
Recall that the Tu-154 crashed off the coast of Sochi on December 25, 2016. On board, flying to Syria, there were 92 people. These are artists of the Alexandrov ensemble, journalists, military personnel, a well-known public figure, Doctor Liza, and others. Early in the morning after taking off from Sochi airport, the plane crashed into the Black Sea near the coast.
According to Antipov, the version of the explosion, on which he insists, was officially refuted literally right there. However, the expert claims that the liner could only be torn apart into tiny fragments by an explosion. This version also proves that only macroscopic fragmentary remains remained of the people who were in the cabin. In addition, the result of the investigation, announced by the Ministry of Defense and reducing the cause of the fall to the pilot's loss of orientation, has a huge number of holes.
Antipov again cites the chronology of events. The plane, having taken off from Moscow, landed in the resort city for refueling. The expert recalled that the Tu-154 needs no more than half an hour for this. Instead, the board remained on the ground for three hours. At the same time, passengers were not released.
After that, the commander of the crew, Roman Volkov, asked the dispatcher to take off from the very beginning of the long runway, arguing that the plane was "heavy". However, Antipov reminds that the plane was unloaded as much as possible. According to the official version, there was nothing else on board except for passengers' belongings and medicines with food.
The expert suggested that it was no coincidence that the commander demanded the take-off from the beginning of the runway. Apparently, in Sochi, the plane was loaded with valuable cargo, since the work went on for about three hours. You can just "throw" things in an hour.
After takeoff, the plane, and the Tu-154, compared to other airliners, has a powerful lifting force, was unable to gain altitude (due to a pilot error) and after 70 seconds from 250 meters it crashed into the sea. Antipov recalls that while the people who were in the salon turned into genetic material.
As everyone knows, a forensic medical examination (Forensic Science) was carried out to identify the remains on board. According to the SME, not all the bodies of passengers after the disaster turned into genetic remains. Some of them, 17 bodies, have survived. And these people were sitting in business class, which is located behind the cockpit. How was it determined that the bodies of the business class passengers had survived? Very simple. The bodies of the leadership of the ensemble and the so-called "VIPs" survived. Contrary to the speculations of the "experts", the body of the Tu-154 pilot was also preserved in an undisturbed state, - the expert explained.
Antipov recalled that according to the main version, the liner, which collapsed from such a height at a speed of 500 kilometers, namely at such a speed, the Tu-154 collided with water, was torn to the smallest pieces.
The question is that one of the wings remained virtually intact. However, Antipov says that there is nothing surprising here. In his opinion, there was an explosion on board, and the wing was damaged from a collision with water. He was not touched by the force of the explosion, the epicenter of which was in the cargo hold. And after falling from such a height and at such a speed, the plane shatters into pieces.
Another proof of the explosion version Antipov sees in the fact that the lower part of the fuselage was ripped open. The break line was just on the floor line separating the cargo and passenger compartments.
It was very clearly shown that the internal structure of the walls in the cargo compartment turned brown and burned from the action of the high temperature. Obvious facts have shown that the aircraft engines located in the rear part, before being immersed in the water of the Black Sea, sucked in finely dispersed remnants from the explosion on board, like vacuum cleaners. And this hot, finely dispersed material of the explosion products penetrated into the structure of the engine air intake channels, and even sea water could not wash it off, ”Antipov said.
Yuri Antipov also noted one very important detail. After the expert spoke with people familiar with the investigation into the causes of the disaster, it turned out that wooden splinters were found in the remains of the dead.
We remember that at the site in Adler, where all the collected fragments of the crashed liner were taken, there was not a single passenger seat. But there should have been more than a hundred of them. Apparently, on this liner bound for Syria, all the passengers, including the pilots, sat on wooden stools. But maybe the cargo of the Ministry of Defense, which was carefully and secretly loaded in Adler for so long, was in wooden boxes? But this version is fantastic. The version with stools is much more realistic, - summed up Yuri Antipov.
News on Bloknot-KrasnodarThe media again returned to the death of the Tu-154 near Sochi, the military plane in which the Alexandrov ensemble died - as they say, the cultural symbol of the Russian army, and Elizaveta Glinka- Dr. Lisa, Mother Teresa of our Northern Spaces. And several more teams of journalists were killed, 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 Russian Aerospace Forces personnel at the Khmeimim airbase on the New Year's Eve.
Flight was like flight, crew commanded by a pilot Volkova have already flown this route more than once. 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 board followed to Damascus over the Caspian Sea, then had to refuel in Mozdok, fly over Iran, Iraq and across 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 driving a car to refuel at the nearest gas station, well, let's refuel at another, by the standards of air transport, it's a stone's throw.
In Adler, the board refueled, and supposedly no one got out and got on the plane in Adler. They took off, and after a couple of minutes disappeared from the radar. And then they found the wreckage of a Tu-154 in the Black Sea.
The newspapers wrote about all this in detail immediately after December 25. And they seem to have begun to forget about Tu. And suddenly, just before the murder in Kiev Voronenkova, and before the bulk of the riots in Moscow, suddenly again, look, a new portion of allegedly information about the death of Tu-154.
More precisely, this is not new information, but an interpretation of a piece of information that we already had.
Apparently somewhere in the high spheres of those who manage our mental health, they decided that the version of the pilot's error, which they carefully emphasized to us all these months, looks unconvincing and now they add interpretations.
I have memorized the main complaints about the pilots.
They (in fact, we are talking about one, the main pilot - the commander of the aircraft Volkov) are accused of things hitherto unheard of in the investigation of the death of aircraft, namely:
- loss of orientation in space;
- in an illusory perception of reality;
- the flight was at night and therefore difficult.
Say, the commander of the ship Volkov (now they began to say that the 4 thousand hours flown by him are not enough to call him an experienced pilot, and earlier they said that Volkov was experienced), took the stars reflected in the sea for the stars in the sky and behaved accordingly, began to decrease, instead of taking off.
Against such defamation of their deceased comrade, fellow pilots were outraged. Still some significant part of them.
They said that night flights are common and half of the flights are night flights, 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 and the altitude and everything that is needed.
True, among fellow pilots there were those who actually blamed the death of Tu pilot, one "comrade" said so, I have already quoted him that 4 thousand flights are not enough, he romantically said that "only after 10 thousand flown flights the pilot begins to feel bird ".
Returning to the formulations given in the media, in particular, to these "loss of orientation in space" and to the "illusory perception of reality", I said to myself: excuse me, but these are the symptoms of what happens to the pilot during an electronic attack.
The version of the electronic attack was at one time swept aside by the investigation.
But she was. And the 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 knock out all the electronics of the aircraft with a radio pulse.
The authors of the version argued that an electronic attack on the Tu-154 could have been made from this ship. Russia also has means of electronic jamming, the supporters of the version argued, they say, nothing fantastic, but the board was military, so those who attacked themselves as bloodsuckers and murderers might not feel.
The status of the flight was the highest that exists (a military ensemble, even a conductor, lieutenant general, a flight to Syria, and the like of international political importance).
The nature of the debris and the nature of the injuries inflicted on the bodies (the 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 broke into the water, the debris would be 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 set up at the coastal edge, they say that they hide from us the true cause of Tu's death.
And now the second batch of misinformation. Apparently, the top decided that you and I may still have doubts about the veracity of the accusations of all the pilots.
Therefore, here they are additionally felled. A well-known trick in the criminal world - murders are always hung on dead comrades.
Now about the airfield in Chkalovsky.
Pilot Krasnopyorov: “I flew from Chkalovsky to the east. And there was no inspection, with security much worse than at civilian airports. "
Writer Limonov: “And I flew from Chkalovsky ... There was no inspection, neither the passports were looked, nor the luggage was checked. Well, okay, I am a famous person, but there were three guards with me, and they did not demand their passports or inspect their luggage. "
MOSCOW, December 25 - RIA Novosti. The UK ruled out the version of the explosion on board the Tu-154, which crashed in the Sochi area a year ago. Such conclusions were made on the basis of examinations carried out during the investigation of the tragedy.
According to the official representative of the department, Svetlana Petrenko, the specialists carried out 356 forensic examinations, 23 molecular genetic examinations, three explosive technical examinations and one phonoscopic examination. Also, a chemical study of fuels and lubricants was carried out.
156 people were recognized as victims, the investigation continues. The UK is studying the testimony of more than a hundred witnesses, including the military and employees of the Sochi airport, who were responsible for preparing the Tu-154 for flight and air traffic control.
A combination of factors
According to Viktor Pryadka, General Director of Avintel Aviation Technologies Alliance, the cause of the crash could be a combination of several factors.
“First: when they taxied for takeoff, the pilots noticed that the plane was overweight, and the overweight Tu-154 was behaving quite dangerously. In addition, the plane took off at five o'clock in the morning, the air was thin was to accelerate to a higher speed. In fact, the plane took off with insufficient speed, so it could not vigorously gain altitude, "he said.
The expert named crew fatigue as another factor.
"The next factor: after takeoff, at the border of the transition from the earth's surface to the water, the lift of the aircraft wing has dropped further, and in order to continue flying, it was necessary to gain even greater speed, and the pilots took off as usual," added Pryadka.
According to him, the combination of circumstances and the combination of these factors could have caused the tragedy.
Moscow and Sochi are mourning
A year after the tragedy, a memorial was opened at the Ostankino television center in memory of the dead journalists of Channel One, NTV and Zvezda.
“I remember the despair and impotence of those days and the pain. The pain dulled, but did not go away. Today we are opening a memorial plaque in memory of our colleagues who died exactly a year ago,” said Konstantin Ernst, CEO of Channel One.
The ceremony was attended by the first deputy head of the presidential administration Alexei Gromov, the head of the directorate of information programs of the First Channel Kirill Kleimenov, the general director of NTV Alexei Zemsky, the president of the Krasnaya Zvezda holding Alexei Pimanov.
Mourning events were also held on the Adler embankment. Residents of the city laid flowers, lit candles and observed a minute of silence for the passengers on the flight.
In memory of the victims of the plane crash, the most famous song of the ensemble named after Alexandrov - "Kalinka", sounded.
“We held mourning events a year ago, when the disaster struck. And now, a year later, we have gathered to honor the memory of all those killed in the plane crash.
This is a great tragedy that did not leave anyone indifferent, "said local resident Oksana.
What happened
The military Tu-154 crashed after taking off from the Sochi airfield. He performed a scheduled flight on the route Moscow - Khmeimim.
92 people were killed: 84 passengers and eight crew members. Among the passengers were eight servicemen, 64 employees of the Aleksandrov Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army, the head of the Fair Help charity Elizaveta Glinka, known as Doctor Liza, two officials and nine journalists.
Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article "Violation of flight rules, entailing grave consequences." The head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, took the investigation under his personal control.
Experts named various versions of what happened, including technical malfunction of the vessel, crew error and overload. Information about a terrorist attack on board also appeared in the media, but the investigation ruled out this version.