Whether bodies were found from the plane. Bodies in trees, houses in kerosene. one of the largest plane crashes in the USSR. Meanwhile on earth

A tragedy struck today: a passenger plane from Saratov Airlines crashed in the Moscow region. An-148 was flying from the capital to Orsk. 71 people were on board: 65 passengers and 6 crew members. There are no survivors.

The President expressed his condolences to the relatives of the victims. In connection with this tragedy, Vladimir Putin changed his schedule: the working trip to Sochi was postponed. According to the Kremlin press service, in order for the president to have the opportunity to directly coordinate the work of a special commission to clarify the causes of the tragedy. The commission was created on behalf of the head of state.

This footage was taken by eyewitnesses a few minutes after the disaster. The wreckage of the plane is scattered in a snow-covered field, around, at least at first glance, there are no traces of fire or explosion. As if he just fell to the ground from a height. At the same time, the picture at the crash site - the wreckage is scattered over a radius of a kilometer - allows us to make the assumption that the liner collapsed while still in the air. And eyewitnesses say that before the fall, the plane was as if engulfed in flames.

The data on how long the plane has been in the air is still different. At first, it was reported that the flight lasted about seven minutes. Later it was reported that it crashed just two minutes after takeoff. One way or another, the place of the fall - this is the vicinity of the village of Argunovo in the Ramensky district of the Moscow region - is located just 30 kilometers from the Domodedovo airport.

“After a very strong cotton, we went to look for the place where this cotton was found. The entire field is roughly the size, I give it offhand - these are two football fields, ”said an eyewitness.

From the Domodedovo airport the plane of the flight Moscow - Orsk took off at 14 hours 21 minutes. And soon disappeared from the radar screens. Internet publications publish the words of an air traffic controller, allegedly the one who monitored the air situation in the crash area - the plane took off normally, then began to descend, but did not get in touch anymore and did not answer requests. Even an audio recording of the negotiations has appeared on the Web, although it is still impossible to guarantee its reliability.

One thing can be said for sure: the crew did not report any malfunctions on board, although the breakdown of the aircraft, along with a piloting error and unfavorable weather conditions, are now three main versions of the disaster.

As the official representative of the IC, Svetlana Petrenko, said, the operational documentation in the Saratov Airlines company is being seized, its employees are being interrogated. In addition, the investigators began interrogating the employees of the Domodedovo airport, who were preparing the aircraft for the flight.

So far, too little is known about the last flight of the crashed plane, but experts have already drawn attention to its strange trajectory. According to the service "Flytradar", after takeoff from Domodedovo, it began to rise to the mark of 1800 meters, then dropped to one and a half thousand, then rise again, and after that the plane goes down sharply. Because of these conflicting data, at first there was even a version that the An-148 could collide with a helicopter in the air. But later these rumors were denied.

Aviation experts now speculate that the cause could have been the liner icing - if a piece of ice got into the engine.

“Sometimes, because of the weather, because of icing, something can happen. The aircraft is poorly handled or has got into sharp, strong icing. The weather here could play a negative role only if there was a failure of the engines and the crew did not see the site, could not pick up and land, ”says honored pilot of Russia Yuri Sytnik.

The crashed An-148 belonged to the Saratov Airlines. Until that day, there were four aircraft of this type in its fleet. A short-haul aircraft designed to carry 80 passengers. The crashed liner was produced less than eight years ago. At first it belonged to the Rossiya airline, flew, including on foreign routes. It was later sold to Saratov. And the airline assures that they do not doubt either the serviceability of the aircraft or the qualifications of the crew.

“There was an experienced crew on board. The aircraft commander is Valery Ivanovich Gubanov, who has more than 5 thousand flight hours, and on this type, Valery Ivanovich had 2147 flight hours, ”said Elena Voronova, head of the press service of Saratov Airlines.

“8 years is, of course, not a period for an airplane. Moreover, Antonovskaya is a reliable company. Our airworthiness standards are the strictest in the world. Not only to new production airplanes, but to airplanes that are submitted for testing, ”said Vitaly Zhiltsov, honored test pilot of the USSR.

Meanwhile, the authorities are already publishing a list of those killed in the disaster. There were 71 people on board - 65 passengers and six crew members. No one had a chance to survive.

The head of the Ministry of Transport of Russia Maxim Sokolov said that "in accordance with federal legislation, all relatives of the victims are paid insurance in the amount of more than 2 million rubles, and the necessary additional decisions in this direction will be taken through the subject."

To identify the bodies in the An-148 crash, DNA samples from relatives of the victims will be delivered to Moscow from Orsk by a special board of the Ministry of Emergencies. The bodies will be identified at the Moscow Bureau of Expertise.

EMERCOM of Russia has opened a hotline. Phone: 8-800-775-17-17.

There is also a hot line in the Orenburg region: 8-3532-308-999.

At the crash site of the An-148 passenger plane in the Moscow region, there are almost 600 rescuers. The wreckage is scattered over a large area, the search operation will be conducted around the clock, one of the black boxes has already been found.

“We have formed operational groups that work in our country and in Orsk, on the territory of the Orenburg region. The task force works in Domodedovo and, where necessary, in the Moscow region. I will ask you to provide support for all relatives and friends, taking into account vital indications, to organize the watch of medical teams of social workers and all specialists who are needed for health reasons, "- instructed the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Vladimir Puchkov.

At the Orsk airport, relatives of the victims are provided with all the necessary assistance. The director of the airport, Sergei Sukharev, said that psychologists and doctors are working in the first-aid post.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia performed a prayer service for those killed in this crash. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Foreign Ministers of Turkey, France and Belgium and other countries brought condolences to Russian citizens in connection with the An-148 plane crash.

In connection with this tragedy, Channel One changes its broadcasting schedule. Immediately after our program instead of the club game “What? Where? When?" - broadcast from Olympic Pyeongchang

The main part of the plane's body has not yet been found - there may be many bodies of the dead inside

In Sochi, search work continues after the crash of the Tu-154. It's already the third day since the rescuers and divers are going out to sea. From 7 in the morning, everyone is already on their feet.

Khosta seaport. The EMERCOM base is still in a tight cordon. On Tuesday, it was decided to completely cordon off the entire coastal zone of Sochi. If on Monday it was still possible to walk on sea pebbles along the edge of the sea, today the entrance to the beach is prohibited everywhere.

At the sea pier of Khost, the candle next to the photograph of the girl in the mourning frame has not yet gone out since last night. Victoria Satarova. She was 20 years old. She devoted her entire short life to folk dances. In the ensemble of Alexandrova, the deceased served a little over three months. Someone put a ballerina figurine next to her photograph. A little further away - a scanned photograph in a transparent file of two young people - a guy and a girl in uniform ...

Rescuers closely monitor the weather. It was reported that a storm was approaching the sea, so that the belongings of the dead, the remains could be washed ashore at any moment. Therefore, it was decided to block all entrances to the beaches, - explains the strengthening of the regime of the coastal service officer. - Do not let anyone into the water.

The wind on the sea is getting stronger every hour. The number of rescue boats increased significantly compared to the previous days. A military helicopter is seen in the sky.

After even a slight disturbance at sea, five fragments of Tu-154 were found this morning. Many people mistakenly think that calm is in the hands of search engines, - says my interlocutor. - On the contrary, everyone is waiting for a storm that will facilitate the work of the guys. The fact is that the storm will lift from the bottom and bring to the shore something that, for some reason, cannot be seen, cannot be reached. On Monday we waited for the storm like manna from heaven. Did not happen. We hope for today.

- And if a storm blows the remains across the sea?

Ruled out. A storm can only wash everything to the shore.

Over the past day, as they said, only 12 bodies were found. Does this mean that the rest of the bodies may not reach?

Today or tomorrow is the X hour, when the sea will either give up the dead or take it for itself. That is why, today we have increased the number of boats at sea and sent reinforcements. See, today the whole sea is in boats.

- I heard that the divers were also sent reinforcements ...

Initially there were about thirty divers. Now their number has tripled. Guys have a hard time. The water temperature is no more than 5-6 degrees, no costumes can save you from the cold. Today, special equipment was loaded onto the boats, with the help of which the guys will be able to descend to a depth of 300 meters. This is already hard work. I have been watching their work for the third day. Just imagine, they went to sea, after an hour or two they returned, frozen, chilled to the bone. Changed quickly, dried, warmed up and back again. Anyone on land will never understand those on the sea.

- Are prospecting works being conducted at shallow depths now?

So far, all parts of the aircraft have been found at a depth of 60-70 meters. This is not a critical depth for the Black Sea, everything is still visible there. When they completely "scan" the bottom at this depth, they will go to search further. The main task is to find the main body of the aircraft, where most of the dead are probably blocked.

- The location of the main part of the plane was not found?

Not found yet. Apparently, just the main part of the liner lies at a great depth, and it is not visible. Rescuers have high hopes for today's Tuesday.

- But this main part of the hull could not have survived and also fell apart?

They say that it is unlikely. Therefore, they think that most of the bodies can presumably be "chained" there.

- On Tuesday, rescuers found a black box - do you confirm this information?

See the helicopter flying? Aerial technology is sent just for such things.

- What is included in the work of the coastal services?

Don't miss a single person on the beach. Do not misunderstand us, in connection with this situation, homeless people have become more active. Such people come here early in the morning and look carefully to see if the sea has brought anything. When I was on duty on the first day, human remains, a mobile phone charger, a cosmetic bag, boots and a gym bag were washed ashore at my feet. Some of my colleagues saw jewelry. We must not allow outsiders to pick up even a trifle from the crashed side. The job of the rescuers is to immediately wrap everything in black bags and send it to the base of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, from there things go for examination. In the early days, most things were found. Then the little things.

- How much time will it take for the search work?

A week was given to get everything that was possible from the bottom. Must meet. Otherwise, the search will continue.

- That is, will the rescuers work on New Years too?

If necessary, of course, they will. This issue has already been discussed. Moreover, by order of the head of the city, it was decided to cancel the fireworks in Sochi. After all, usually here New Year's fireworks were arranged right above the sea. Now such fireworks will look blasphemous.

- Information comes to you practically from the mouth. What versions of what happened are put forward by the rescuers themselves?

They prefer to wait for an official investigation. From what I've heard, the investigators themselves are at a standstill. Perhaps decoding the flight recorder will bring important information. And what are now is nonsense. The guys who are on duty at sea at night claim that it was unrealistic to see in detail how the plane fell from the shore. Still, the distance is decent. And you know how dark the nights in Sochi are. There are not even stars.

- Do the divers comment on something, talk about their work?

Divers practically do not communicate with anyone. They come out of the sea in the evening, darker than the clouds. They consider it a bad omen to have empty talk.

- Photos of the dead appeared on the pier. Probably their relatives left?

The relatives of the victims come here. They just try not to pay attention to themselves. Someone came for one day, said goodbye to their relatives in this way. Some decided to stay until the end of the search work. So they said: "You can't wait at home." And over there, you see, the girl is standing, - nods to the side. - She's been coming here since Monday. Almost every hour he gets to the pier, stands for five minutes, looks at the sea and leaves.

The young girl is all in black. On the head - a tight hood completely covers the face. In his hands he fumbles with a handkerchief. Brings it to the face. Shudders. Eyes red from tears. Looks into the distance. Whispering something. As if asking the sky and the sea to return to her the one they took away.

Read the previous reports of our special correspondent from Sochi:

Irina BOBROVA, Sochi

On the night of July 7-8, 1980, one of the largest air crashes in the Soviet Union took place. On the eastern outskirts of Alma-Ata, a Tu-154B-2 passenger plane crashed on its way to Rostov-on-Don. As a result, 166 people died - 156 passengers and 10 crew members. In addition, nine people who were on the ground were injured.

July night flight from Alma-Ata to Rostov-on-Don. The heat is such that I want to carry a fan in my hands all the time, directed at myself. The fathers of the family sent the suitcases into the luggage, hugged their wives and held the hands of their children. On board, 30 kids and schoolchildren are talking about what castles will be built on the coast and how they will buy in the sea - the flight after Rostov was supposed to go to Simferopol.

The girls who go to the resort ponder how they will sunbathe, and in the evenings they run to dance or just listen to the sound of the surf. Or maybe someone will spin the novel. With such thoughts, everyone is sent to the Aeroflot "carcass".

They won't build, they won't twist. The liner will crash in 1 minute 40 seconds after takeoff and fly to pieces. 166 passengers and crew members will become victims of the largest plane crash in the republic. No one survived on the plane.

Meanwhile on earth

In private houses on Fedoseev Street, the windows trembled when the captain of the aircraft, Yuri Kulagin, tried to avoid a collision with the ground. The fact is that pilots have repeatedly encountered such a situation: the "carcass" sinks 30 meters, and then continues to climb. This time the fall continued.

The liner collapsed, hitting the nose of the farm. But the movement continued: so, he "jumped" three times, falling apart on the way. Parts of the bodies of passengers and crew flew into huge cracks - they were literally torn to pieces by seat belts and debris. In the next three days they will be found on trees, on rooftops, in baths and just on the ground.

At some point, 39 tons of fuel spilled across the street, splattering the soil, walls of houses, roofs and windows.

We lived two streets and at night we heard an explosion, we thought: the bomb exploded. We ran out into the street, and there - a glow, as light as day, a terrible smell of burning kerosene hit our nose. In the morning, we learned that the plane crashed near the private sector, everyone died, and people's houses and gardens were burned down. Soon we moved to another area, away from the airport, - a local resident Alexander Baev told the media.

Luggage scattered in different directions. After the plane demolished the lamp posts, the field flared up. A mixture of kerosene, burning and disinfectant odors hung in the air.

Many airport employees lived nearby, writes "Essays on the history of Almaty". So, one of them, Sergei, burned all three sides of the house, the second floor and the vineyard burned to the ground.

The man ferried the family to safety while he himself went in search of the black boxes. Later, dozens of bodies were found in his garden.

Commission conclusions

Like many other Soviet plane crashes and hijackings, the story was not covered in the media. Some details began to surface much later. However, even the list of the victims has not been made public until now.

At the crash site, the chief aircraft designer of the Tu-154, Alexander Shengardt, worked as part of the commission assembled after the incident. According to him, there could be a human factor. The initial medical commission concluded that alcohol was in the blood of the dead pilots. However, a week later, experts from Moscow denied this statement.

The Russian Emergencies Ministry found 111 passports of victims of the A321 crash in Sinai. 16 people were able to escape death in an Egyptian plane crash. The President expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and thanked everyone who supported them.

Plane crash in Egypt, latest news: more bodies found under fuselage of crashed A321

Russian rescuers found more fragments of the bodies of those killed in the crash of the A321 plane on the Sinai Peninsula in the place where the central part of the liner's fuselage is located, LifeNews reports.

“During the inspection of the liner, Russian rescuers, using the Rosenbauer rescue vehicle, lifted a new part of the aircraft's fuselage and found new remains of aircraft passengers,” said Alexander Agafonov, director of the Department of Fire and Rescue Forces and Special Forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. According to him, this part of the fuselage was lying on the ground inverted.

"The wreckage is scattered over a wide area, which confirms the information that the plane began to collapse in the air," - he added, noting that, despite the difficult conditions, the work of the squads will continue until dark.

Meanwhile, sources in the Federal Air Transport Agency told LifeNews that the location of the bodies of the dead and the wreckage of the liner has already established an approximate picture of the liner crash. According to preliminary data, the first victims of the A321 crash were the passengers of the tail section of the liner.

After the tail section of the airbus fell off at an altitude of almost 9 thousand meters, some of the passengers fell out. Search teams found some of the bodies of the victims a few kilometers from the crash site.

Russian Emergencies Ministry found 111 passports of victims of A321 crash in Sinai

Meanwhile, EMERCOM employees, who are currently continuing a search operation at the crash site of the Airbus A321, found 111 passports of the victims of the plane crash during the day.

“Among the documents found at the crash site are passports of Ukrainian citizens. The work continues. Rescuers of the Emergencies Ministry are working in a hollow where a large fragment of an aircraft with personal belongings and an inflatable ladder was found, ”Agafonov said.

It is also noted that rescuers have to work in extremely difficult conditions - the Sinai is now unbearably hot, plus elevation differences and a huge area for research. The search area has now increased from four kilometers to 12 kilometers. The territory is combed by 74 employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

“The height difference in the hollow is 120 meters, where rescuers descend on a rope. All items found are packed and delivered to the base camp, which is 12 kilometers away, ”says the director of the department.

French specialists began work at the crash site, representatives of the IAC and the Egyptian aviation authorities are also working.

16 people managed to escapedying in an Egyptian plane crash

The airline "Kogalymavia" confirms that 16 people did not fly from St. Petersburg to Egypt on the next flight after the crash of the A321, RIA Novosti reports, citing a statement from a spokesman for the airline.

"At the moment, we only have information that on the day of the incident, on the day of the disaster on the flight St. Petersburg - Sharm el-Sheikh (the return flight, which the crashed A321 should have made), 16 people did not fly and two people were removed. for purely human reasons, "said a spokeswoman.

The President expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and thanked everyone who supported them

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that work be carried out to investigate all the causes of the crash of A321, until all the details of the tragedy are clarified, writes "KP".

“Everything must be done to find out the cause of the plane crash, so that we react accordingly,” the president said.

Putin also said that the issue of helping the families of those killed in the plane crash should be resolved as soon as possible. He separately thanked the residents of St. Petersburg, who supported and empathized with the relatives of the victims.

“In such tragedies, at such hours, it is certainly very important to feel the shoulder of loved ones, the empathy of the whole country about this terrible catastrophe,” said Vladimir Putin.

About the plane crash in Egypt

Airbus 321, flying 9268 Sharm el Sheikh - St. Petersburg, crashed on October 31. Shortly after departure from the Egyptian airport, the crew of the liner stopped communicating. It was reported that the plane dropped sharply by 1.5 kilometers, after which it disappeared from the radar screens. Before losing communication, the pilot requested permission to land at Cairo airport, airport officials said.

Later, the exact crash site of the liner became known. On board the A321 there were 224 people - seven crew members and 217 passengers, including, according to unconfirmed reports, 25 children. This plane crash was the largest in the history of Russian and Soviet aviation.

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, there are enough natural conditions. 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 the data, as of 18:40 on December 28, the remains of 16 people were found - Author)

The work of divers underwater at the crash site of the Tu-154.

- 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 Armenian Airbus Airbus 10 years ago. Also near Adler. The injuries are similar.

(Recall that information appeared in the media that the bodies of the dead 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. Further, the rope lengthens, and I float in a larger circle. The bottom is searched for 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. Further, the find is tied with slings and rises.

- What is more: personal belongings or aircraft parts?

90% - fuselage elements. Passengers' belongings are rare.

- They say the storm will help you.

Not. 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 underwater 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 kind of motivation helps.

- Are there any tricks to relax after work, reboot?

I return to my family, play with the 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 in for the whole day. They go out to sea in the morning when dawn begins 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.

PHOTO REPORT

Rescuers of the Emergencies Ministry lift the wreckage of Tu-154 from the bottom of the Black Sea

REFERENCE "KP"

The search operation involves 45 ships, 15 deep-sea vehicles, 192 divers, 12 aircraft and five helicopters. A self-propelled crane arrived to lift large debris into the crash site.

Found about one and a half thousand aircraft fragments. So far, one third has been raised to the surface. Another 12 large fragments were 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

BTW

Rescuers from the crash site of Tu-154: The victims have the same injuries as the victims of the 2006 disaster

Since the day of the Tu-154 disaster, rescuers have been 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