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The search operation continues in the area of ​​the plane crash. Several pieces of debris were recovered from the bottom. There are dozens of ships in the area. Deep-sea vehicles are used.

The search operation continues in the area of ​​the plane crash. Several pieces of debris were recovered from the bottom. There are 45 ships in the area. Deep-sea vehicles are used. When it got dark, the spotlights were turned on.

Many agencies report that rescuers discovered the body of crew commander Roman Volkov and the body of Oksana Batrutdinova, assistant head of the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense. However, there is no official confirmation of this information. It has been confirmed that by this hour the bodies of ten dead have been found, it is also reported that the remains of another 80 bodies were raised to the surface, but rescuers say that the remains of the bodies are very damaged and no one can say how many there are at the moment.

Work is currently ongoing and will continue throughout the night. The water area at the site of the Tu-154 crash is illuminated by special spotlights. The plane, according to experts, fell six kilometers from the coast, and during the day this place was clearly visible from here, but now, in the dark, neither the camera nor the human eye can see the equipment.

Meanwhile, the Interfax agency reports, citing representatives of the Ministry of Defense, divers recovered two elements of the aircraft control mechanism from the bottom of the sea. Based on the serial numbers, it has been previously established that they may belong to the crashed Tu-154. One of the raised fragments is quite impressive in size - about five meters.

45 ships continue to work at the site of the plane crash, including anti-sabotage boats and ships with sonar equipment. The seabed is being examined by divers and several deep-sea vehicles. In addition, helicopters are operating in the sky above the disaster site, even now, in the dark. In total, about 3.5 thousand people are involved in the operation. The conditions here are difficult. The depth reaches 100 meters, and due to the strong current, experts say, the wreckage of the plane is scattered over a fairly large distance. On an area of ​​240 square kilometers.

Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov, who heads the government commission investigating the disaster, said that due to strong currents, some of the fragments of the Tu-154 and the bodies of the dead could be carried towards Abkhazia, so their Abkhaz colleagues also joined in the rescue efforts.

Each discovered part is lifted from the bottom to the surface and then delivered to the shore. All found wreckage of the plane should help experts reconstruct the picture of what happened on board. According to the Ministry of Defense, the search operation area is divided into 15 sectors, and by this time the bottom of seven of them has been completely examined. And by this time, in the search area, the survey of the surface surface was completely - 100% - completed.

The flight recorders have not yet been found. This is explained by the same strong current and difficult bottom topography. Now fragments of the plane continue to be searched using radar equipment.

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

Search work continues in Sochi after the Tu-154 crash. It's already the third day since rescuers and divers go to sea. By 7 am everyone is already on their feet.

Seaport of Khosta. The Emergencies Ministry base is still tightly cordoned off. On Tuesday, a decision was made to completely cordon off the entire coastal area of ​​Sochi. If on Monday it was still possible to walk on the sea pebbles along the edge of the sea, today entry to the beach is prohibited everywhere.

U sea ​​pier Hosta, since last night the candle next to the photograph of the girl in the mourning frame has not yet been extinguished. Victoria Satarova. She was 20 years old. All my short life she dedicated to folk dancing. The deceased served in the Alexandrov ensemble for a little more than three months. Someone placed a figurine of a ballerina 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 are closely monitoring the weather. It was reported that a storm was approaching at sea, so the belongings of the dead and the remains could be washed ashore at any moment. Therefore, it was decided to block all approaches to the beaches,” explains a coast service employee about the strengthening of the regime. - Don't let anyone near the water.

The wind at sea is getting stronger every hour. There has been a noticeable increase in rescue boats compared to previous days. A military helicopter was spotted in the sky.

After even a slight disturbance at sea, five fragments of the Tu-154 were discovered this morning. Many people mistakenly think that calm is good for search engines, says my interlocutor. - On the contrary, everyone is waiting for a storm that will make the guys’ work easier. The fact is that the storm will lift from the bottom and bring to the shore something that for some reason is not visible and impossible to get. On Monday we waited for the storm like manna from heaven. It didn't happen. We hope for today.

- What if a storm scatters the remains across the sea?

Excluded. A storm can only wash everything ashore.

Over the past 24 hours, it was said that only 12 bodies had been discovered. Does this mean that the remaining bodies may not be available?

Today and tomorrow is hour X, when the sea will either give up the dead or take them for itself. That is why today we increased the number of boats at sea and sent reinforcements. You 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. It's not easy for guys. The water temperature is no more than 5-6 degrees, no suits can protect 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 up to 300 meters. This is already hard work. This is the third day I have been observing their work. Just imagine, they went to sea, and an hour or two later they returned, frozen, chilled to the bone. We quickly changed clothes, dried, warmed up and went back again. Everyone who is on land will never understand those who are at sea.

- Are prospecting works currently being carried out at shallow depths?

So far, all the aircraft parts were 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 move on to search. The main task is to find the main body of the aircraft, where most of the dead are probably trapped.

- The location of the main part of the plane was never discovered?

Haven't found it yet. Apparently, the main part of the liner lies at great depths and is not visible. Rescuers have high hopes for this Tuesday.

- But this main part of the body could not survive and also fall apart?

They say it's unlikely. That's why they think that most of the bodies could conceivably be “shackled” there.

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

Do you see the helicopter flying? Aircraft are sent for just such things.

- What is included in the work of coastal services?

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

- Approximately how long will it take for search work?

They gave us a week to get everything that was possible from the bottom. Must meet. Otherwise, the search will continue.

- That is, on New Year will lifeguards work?

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 show in Sochi. After all, New Year’s fireworks were usually held here right above the sea. Now such fireworks will look blasphemous.

- You receive information almost first-hand. What versions of what happened do the rescuers themselves put forward?

They prefer to wait for an official investigation. As far as I've heard, the investigators themselves are at a dead end. Perhaps decoding the flight recorder will bring important information. And what they are now is nonsense. The guys who are on duty at sea at night claim that it was impossible 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 aren't even stars.

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

Divers practically do not communicate with anyone. They emerge from the sea in the evening, darker than a cloud. It is considered a bad omen to engage in empty talk.

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

Relatives of the victims come here. They just try not to draw attention to themselves. Someone came for one day and said goodbye to their relatives in this way. Some decided to stay until the end of the search work. So they said: “It’s impossible to wait at home.” And there, you see, the girl is standing, nodding to the side. - She's been coming here since Monday. Almost every hour he goes up to the pier, stands for about five minutes, looks at the sea and leaves.

A young girl all in black. On the head there is a thick hood that completely covers the face. He is fiddling with a handkerchief in his hands. He brings it to his face. He shudders. Eyes red from crying. Looks into the distance. Something is whispering. It’s as if she’s asking the sky and the sea to return to her the one they took away.

Read previous reports from our special correspondent from Sochi:

Irina BOBROVA, Sochi

“According to experts, the bodies of those killed in the Tu-154 crash are most likely located inside the fuselage at a depth of about 60 meters,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

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In turn, the head of the Russian Ministry of Transport, Maxim Sokolov, said that during the search and rescue operation, a number of fragments of the bodies of the dead were discovered, many of which can be identified. “But we will clarify more detailed information tomorrow morning, when they are ready for transportation to Moscow,” TASS quotes the minister.

Currently, search work in the Black Sea is carried out by 32 ships and boats, 80 divers, five helicopters, drones and remote-controlled deep-sea vehicles. “In addition, 1,300 military personnel from the Southern Military District are being prepared for the transfer. Four Il-76 military transport aircraft are in constant readiness at Adler airfields,” Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing. He noted that rescue vessels of the Black Sea Fleet with equipment allowing complex diving work at depths of up to 400 meters will arrive in the search area. Earlier it was reported that nine emergency rescue vessels were involved in the search operation in the area of ​​the plane crash.

As the site wrote, on the morning of December 25, information appeared that a Tu-154 Russian Ministry of Defense aircraft flying from Sochi to the Khmeimim airbase disappeared from radar. Later, the department reported that fragments of the missing Tu-154 were found 1.5 kilometers from the coast of Sochi. According to updated data, there were 92 people on board the liner, including artists from the Alexandrov ensemble and nine journalists.

A year after the high-profile crash of the Russian Ministry of Defense, independent technical expert Yuri Antipov hammered the last nail into the coffin of the official versions.

Why, instead of whole bodies, smeared human lungs and fragments of fatty tissue were found at the crash site of the airliner, while the most vulnerable part of the plane - the wing - remained almost unharmed? The answers to this and many other questions about the ill-fated Tu-154, flying to Syria with the Alexandrov ensemble on board, are given by the Kavkaz Post expert.

Suspicious rush
Immediately, when the debris had not yet been raised from the bottom of the sea, officials from the Ministry of Defense announced that there was no explosion on board. Antipov explains this amazing haste simply: “Those responsible for sending this plane immediately realized the true cause of the crash. And immediately through the media she was rejected.” Another question is, was it an explosion or a terrorist attack? Here Antipov is convinced: “An analysis of the factual material showed that only a powerful explosion could break the plane into a large number of parts, scattering them over a large area, and destroy the passengers to a molecular-fragmented state.”

At one time, because of this rather obvious reason for the crash, one media outlet received a shout from the Ministry of Defense and a command to the editor-in-chief to “shut up.”

Board too heavy...no load
On that fateful day, two aircraft were preparing to fly to Syria. The Tu-154 was unloaded as much as possible, sending things to the second plane. On board the dead liner there were only musicians and...empty cargo compartments. The board in Adler was refueled for more than 3 hours without removing passengers from the cabin, although partial refueling according to regulations does not exceed 20 minutes.

Commander Roman Volkov, in a conversation with the dispatcher, asked for a takeoff run from the very beginning of the long runway, citing the fact that the plane was “heavy.” This means that Volkov knew what kind of cargo was being loaded, argues Yuri Antipov. It's no secret that a typical loading of things takes no more than an hour.

A total of 17 whole bodies

One of the main questions of a resonant catastrophe: how did it happen that in a plane that reached a flight altitude of only 200-250 meters, when it fell, the passengers turned into genetic material?

According to the EMS data, not all the bodies of passengers after the disaster turned into genetic remains. Mysteriously, those in business class were left dead.
But further along the plane’s cabin, Antipov says, all the bodies were simply smeared across the skin. It’s scary to read this list of numbered fragments: adipose tissue, legs, small intestine, bladder, soft tissue... But the whole point, Yuri Antipov believes, is that “the seats of the passengers, for whose identification a genetic examination was carried out, were located above ... the cargo compartments of the aircraft.”

Invulnerable Wing
And this despite the fact that the structure of the aircraft wing that is most susceptible to destruction upon impact remained practically intact, the expert says. Why? Because it experienced a destructive effect only from hitting the water. The enormous destructive force that arose inside the fuselage simply did not touch the aircraft’s wing with its “wing of death”...

Meanwhile, the lower part of the plane's fuselage was simply torn apart by a monstrous force. Moreover, the opening line of the aircraft’s “belly” ran exactly along the floor line dividing the volume of the passenger cabin and cargo compartments.

Antipov says: “It was very clearly shown that the internal structure of the walls in the cargo compartment had turned brown and burned from the effects of high temperature. Obvious facts have demonstrated that the aircraft engines, located at the rear of the aircraft, before plunging them into the water of the Black Sea, sucked in finely dispersed residues from the explosion on board like vacuum cleaners.”

Splinters –a stubborn thing
The photo shows that the skin is not just torn off, in the area of ​​the cabin floor it is also bent in half, and the skin of the cargo compartment is torn (the upper part of the structural fragment lifted by a crane), and along the entire perimeter of the fragment. And the outside of the cargo truck changed its color. But she was in clean sea water...

Finally, one of the most important details. Almost all biological remains contained large number….WOODEN SPINS. Antipov continues the chain of reasoning: “Where would they come from...? After all, the era of plywood airplanes has long passed. We remember that at the site in Adler, where all the collected debris of the crashed airliner was taken, there was not a single passenger seat. But there should have been more than a hundred of them.”
And he makes a sensational conclusion that the splinters are nothing more than traces of “the cargo that was loaded for so long, carefully and quietly in Adler in wooden boxes.”

A storm has begun. Armchair experts on the Internet claim that after a storm it will only be easier for divers to work - the water itself will wash 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. The head of the search and rescue unit of the southern regional search and rescue team of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Vyacheslav Ivashchenko, told Komsomolskaya Pravda about how the search for the crashed plane is going on.

- Under what conditions do you have to work?

Almost ideal. The plane lies on a large underwater field. The depth is approximately the same everywhere - about 25 meters. That is, you can search during the day without special lighting; natural conditions are enough. The bottom is solid sandstone. There is almost no silt or dirt.

- And what can you find?

Large parts of the aircraft, small ones, some personal items. If we manage to find electronic devices - phones, tablets - they are immediately taken upstairs. Then they are sent for examination. Yesterday we rose from the bottom aircraft engine weighing three tons. There are also fragments of bodies (according to data, as of 18:40 on December 28, the remains of 16 people were found - Author)

Divers working underwater at the Tu-154 crash site.

- Are there any whole bodies?

Alas. This happens when you hit the water hard. The dead are literally torn apart. I saw something similar during the Armenian Airlines Airbus crash 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’s 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 a ship to the surface. I tie myself to it with a rope and begin to swim slowly in a circle. Then the rope lengthens, and I swim in a larger circle. The bottom is searched using such divergent trajectories. Small objects are tied with a rope and lifted by partners in the boat on the surface. Large aircraft parts are pulled out using a crane. I indicate the coordinates, a ship or barge with a lift floats on the surface. Then the find is tied with slings and lifted.

- What is more: personal belongings or aircraft parts?

90% - fuselage elements. Passengers' belongings are rarely found.

- They say the storm will help you.

No. The storm will shake everything at the bottom. Something may shift to already tested areas. In addition, now everything is clearly visible under water. And after the storm, the clouds will rise and work will become much more difficult.

- Is it psychologically difficult to swim underwater and find remains?

You need to set yourself up correctly. I focus on the idea that there is difficult but important work to be done. Return their loved ones to the relatives. Only I can do this. There will be no others. This kind of motivation helps.

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

I return to my family, play with the children, and just try not to think about what lies at the bottom. Again, I remind myself that I don’t have an ordinary profession where anything can happen.

Vyacheslav Ivashchenko said that divers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations work hard all day long. They go out to sea in the morning, when it begins to get light, and return to shore only in the evening at 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 refilling oxygen cylinders.

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Rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations lift the wreckage of a Tu-154 from the bottom of the Black Sea

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

About one and a half thousand fragments of the aircraft were discovered. On at the moment managed to bring one third to the surface. Another 12 large pieces of debris were discovered. One of them is two by three meters, the second is about five meters long, the third is more than 60 meters long.

MEANWHILE

The main phase of the search for the wreckage of the crashed Tu-154 has ended

“The active phase of the search operation in the Black Sea has been completed,” the source said. The search group recovered almost all the fragments of the Tu-154 from the bottom of the sea. The group of ships that took part in the operation left the Black Sea

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

Since the day of the Tu-154 crash, rescuers have been working non-stop at the crash site in the Black Sea. They are raising from the bottom the bodies of the dead and the wreckage of the plane, on board at the time of the crash there were 92 people - crew members, artists of the ensemble named after. Alexandrova, journalists and Dr. Lisa.

Our photojournalist Vladimir Velengurin observes with his own eyes how divers work and how the search operation is progressing