to Establish the cause of the crash of the Tu-154 have a special Commission. We already know that the plane is on time passed maintenance, and ruled them pilots of high class. There were some oddities, experts do not exclude the possibility of a terrorist attack, but sources in law enforcement agencies refute such versions. Voiced and other possible scenarios of disaster, which killed 92 people.
the President of Russia Vladimir Putin has declared next Monday a national day of mourning for those killed in the crash of Tu-154. Entertainment programs on television and radio should be abolished, and public events begin with a minute of silence. The head of state promised to conduct a thorough investigation and to extend all necessary assistance to the families of the victims. A Commission of inquiry headed by Minister of transport Maxim Sokolov, who on Sunday arrived in Sochi to hold a meeting with participation of the military, rescuers and representatives of other law enforcement agencies.
“If the plane fell intact, then this would not be fragmentation, believe me. The plane collapsed, just collapsed, then exploded, it means that somewhere someone was given a suitcase”
Recall, the Tu-154 Russian defense Ministry bound for Syrian Latakia, disappeared from radar early Sunday morning after taking off from Sochi, where he arrived from Chkalovsky to refuel. Communication with the aircraft was lost two minutes later after takeoff. On Board were 92 people, including eight crew members and actors song and dance ensemble behalf Alexandrov (headed by Director Valery Khalilov). They were going to participate in the Christmas concert on the basis Hamim and, according to some reports, in the city of Aleppo, which was recently liberated from the militants. In addition, the plane was carrying nine journalists (“the First channel” Zvezda, NTV) and a few others, including the Executive Director of the Fund “Fair aid” Elizaveta Glinka (known as Dr. Lisa) and the head of the Department of culture Ministry of defence Anton Gubankova.
the wreckage of the aircraft scattered along the black sea coast for a dozen miles. At the moment, it continues the search operation, the specialists of EMERCOM explore the waters in search of victims. On the surface raised more than a dozen phone In Sochi arrive relatives of the victims, but the procedure of identification will be held in Moscow.
the Crashed aircraft was manufactured in 1983, the total flight time is 6 thousand 689 hours. The last overhaul (the third one) was completed in December 2014 at the factory “Aviacor”, and in September this year passed the scheduled routine maintenance. As noted by the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on economic policy Sergey Kalashnikov, this long period of operation does not mean that the aircraft was serviceable technically. “This age does not give such critical things as metal fatigue, he said. – Specific technical failure of this particular vessel, not related to his age, that’s different”.
for his part, the Minister of industry and trade Denis Manturov called premature speculations about a possible withdrawal of the Tu-154, Recalling a large share of these aircrafts. “A lot of planes in the world, which is no longer manufactured, but are operated. The resource is assigned to this plane today, 40 years, and if you take the foreign counterparts, then some of the planes comes life up to 60 years, so in aviation absolutely other principles of destination resource, the issue of time to cycle,” he explained.
the Tu-154 is the most common airliner of domestic aviation. The first of them took to the air in 1968. Since the beginning of the production of these medium-haul passenger aircraft just more than 1,000 cars. According to the designers Tupolev, which is why it involves the greatest number of accidents – nearly a half-century of operation has occurred about fifty disasters. One of the biggest tragedies happened in April 2010 when he crashed the presidential Tu-154 Air forces of Poland during the landing approach to the airfield in Smolensk. Then killed all aboard, including President Lech Kaczynski.
it is Known that crashed in the Black sea aircraft operated by airman first class Roman Volkov. As reported in the Department of information and mass communications of the Russian defense Ministry, the total flight time pilot has exceeded 3 thousand hours.
In turn, the forum users “Forumavia” said that the Navigator, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Petukhov also had a great experience. In 2011 he was part of the crew, put the “tumbling” of the Tu-154, that is, in fact, “pulled 563 (tail number RA-85563) from hell”. The incident occurred at the aerodrome Chkalovsky. The liner immediately after the departure of failed system of governance. The Board strongly heels and knelt in the air in different directions. But the car was safely planted on the airfield. All crew members were awarded Orders of Courage.
the cause of the crash in the Black sea will be set by investigators and experts after examining the wreckage and data from “black boxes”. And while experts put forward the preliminary version of the incident. In power structures the preliminary cause of the fall was called a technical malfunction or a piloting error.
However, air force major, pilot-instructor Andrew Krasnoperov considered suspicious the imminent disappearance of aircraft from radar screens after take-off. In conversation with “Kommersant” he said that “a plane crashes is very rare, especially of this class.” “The Tu-154 has three engines, it is very reliable,” said Krasnoperov, explaining that the car is “cable redundancy, including the control plane, that is, when the failure of one system, comes another”.
the Lack of signaling distress may indicate that the plane almost immediately lost speed and just fell in snap, uncontrollable situation. “In this case, the pilot just in such an overload, which in this case happens to be not only couldn’t tell the Manager, but also to include the distress signal was not, – the expert believes. – There is a sharp drop, it happens in the case where something abnormal happened, something exploded, something was off. As a rule, these aircraft can only fall off the tail. But in all other cases, the pilot could easily transfer the information to include a distress signal, but this did not happen. So, there was something so abnormal”.
the Expert commented on evidence that the dispersion of the debris of the crashed plane was of the order of 15 km. “If the plane fell intact, then this would not be fragmentation, believe me. The plane collapsed, just collapsed, then exploded, so somewhere someone made the case, given that it was a flight to Syria, and flew in musicians from the ensemble, could have something to carry with these musical instruments, something they could add. Believe me, this fragmentation is only at the destruction of the plane in the air,” he said.
According Krasnoperova, when the plane just falls, slight oil stain, there emerge the wreckage. “And then even found someone already that is already in the coastal area suffered from the wreckage. This suggests that the debris fell to the ground in a disorderly fall, then it exploded in the air,” he concluded.
because on Board there was a kind of “extreme situation”, agrees a former head of shift of the main centre of uniform system of air traffic management Vitaly Andreev, who has worked in aviation for 47 years. “After takeoff and short flight – two minutes, the plane disappeared from communications not transmitted a signal to earth of any problems, this may indicate that the Board has developed an emergency situation, or influence from the outside on the car or meeting with an obstacle that there was hardly,” quotes his words RIA “Novosti”.
He stressed that the Tu-154 is “very reliable machine” – “just so they don’t fall.” Neither the imbalance of the rudders, no deviation from the prescribed flight path, which are given as versions of the disaster, could not prevent the crew to transmit this signal to the ground. “So there was something extreme, practices such situation is possible when the capture of the vessel”, – he added.
However, the source of “Interfax” in law enforcement agencies reported that the attack among the main versions of the disaster is not considered and this version is practically impossible. The same is said in the Federation Council Committee on defense and security.
a number of experts point to the flaws in the design of aircraft that could cause a tragedy. “The aircraft immediately after takeoff could not vigorously to gain altitude, and must make a horizontal “platform” in order to gain a safe speed. At this stage, it is recommended not to make any maneuvers.If the pilots immediately after takeoff, the expert said, did not “pad”, and continued to gain altitude and made a turn, could come grave consequences – incidence wing and spin behavior of the aircraft,” – said, for example, the CEO of the company “Alliance aviation technologies Avantel” Victor Locks.
Note that many countries expressed condolences to Russia in connection with the crash. Belarus even joined the mourning. On the other hand, his joy over the disaster did not hide some of the Ukrainian users of the Network. At the same time, many Kiev residents brought to the building of the Russian Embassy flowers and candles.
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