“Unless it’s collective insanity. “Unless - collective insanity Tu 154 crashed

MOSCOW, December 25 - RIA Novosti, Andrey Kots. December 2016 left another terrible date in the historical calendar of Russia. Exactly one year ago, over the Black Sea, the catastrophe claimed the lives of 92 people. Pilots, our fellow journalists, the famous volunteer doctor Elizaveta Glinka. And 64 military musicians of the Academic Twice Red Banner Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after Alexander Alexandrov. On December 25, 2016, the legendary band lost its best soloists, the first line-up. Passengers on a military flight flew to the Khmeimim airbase to wish Happy New Year to Russian soldiers and officers who had been liberating Syria from terrorists for the second year. The causes of the disaster have not been fully elucidated to this day. About the current versions - in the material RIA Novosti.

Old but reliable

Board RA-85572 could hardly be called new. It was built at the Kuibyshev Aviation Plant in 1983. By December 2016, the 33-year-old Tu-154 managed to fly 6689 hours. However, for aircraft of this type, the age limit is 40 years, and the resource is 60,000 flight hours. Over the entire period of operation, it has never seriously broken down, and the last scheduled repair took place in 2014. A few days before the crash, some difficulties arose with the aircraft - airfield services discovered a fuel leak from the wing tank. But the problems were quickly eliminated, the work was accepted by military acceptance. Before departure on December 25, 2016, the aircraft passed all the necessary checks, it was recognized as fully operational and ready for a long flight.

The plane took off after refueling at the Sochi airport at 05:25 Moscow time. The liner was piloted by 35-year-old major Roman Volkov, who had flown more than three thousand hours during his practice. The weather conditions that morning were favorable: visibility was about 10 kilometers, the air temperature was minus five degrees, the height of the lower boundary of the clouds was 1000 meters, and the wind speed did not exceed four meters per second. The aircraft took off from the runway (RWY) at the 37th second after the start of the run, at a speed of 320 kilometers per hour. The crew made two 90-degree turns to starboard and headed east. At 05:27, the Tu-154 disappeared from the radar screens and fell into the sea 1.6 kilometers from the coast and six kilometers from the edge of the runway. The flight lasted only 70 seconds.

Shortly after the tragedy, the military investigative department of the Investigative Committee (IC) for the Sochi garrison opened a criminal case under Article 351 of the Russian Criminal Code - "Violation of flight rules that entailed grave consequences." Later, the case was transferred to the central office of the Investigative Committee. The operational support of the investigation was undertaken by the FSB of Russia. In addition, a commission of the Ministry of Defense headed by Deputy Minister, General of the Army Pavel Popov was created. As Lieutenant-General Sergei Bainetov, head of the aviation safety service of the Armed Forces, said at the end of December, more than 15 versions of the plane crash were initially worked out. Later their number decreased.

Human factor

The first versions of the causes of the crash the day after the crash were voiced by the FSB of Russia: foreign objects getting into the engine, low-quality fuel, piloting error or a technical malfunction of the aircraft. Representatives of the investigation stressed that the plane did not carry military or dual-use cargo. No signs of sabotage or terrorist attack were found either. In Sochi, only two border guards and a customs officer boarded the plane.

The expert community also voiced several versions, including quite exotic ones. In particular, it was assumed that the Tu-154 could open fire from a portable anti-aircraft missile system, which led to the destruction of the airframe in the air. In addition, experts did not rule out that co-pilot Alexander Rovensky could have made a fatal mistake by mixing up the landing gear and flaps control levers. For this reason, the aircraft could not gain altitude, began to fall and hit the tail of the water.

Later, experts studied the issue of the ship's workload. In April, the media reported that the crash could have occurred due to an overload of the liner. Then the journalists claimed that instead of the normative 98 tons, the weight of the aircraft during takeoff allegedly amounted to more than 110 tons. As a result, the Ministry of Defense did not find "violations of the current requirements regarding the seating of passengers in the Tu-154 cabin, as well as loading and centering the transported cargo."

"According to the results of the investigation, it was established that the cause of the accident could be a violation of spatial orientation - the situational awareness of the aircraft commander, which led to his erroneous actions," representatives of the military department voiced their version at the end of May.

Set point early

Earlier, journalists from the Kommersant newspaper came to similar conclusions by publishing their own investigation, supported by comments from informed sources. It was alleged, in particular, that the pilot Roman Volkov began to experience difficulties in determining his location while still on the ground - he could not figure out which of the two lanes he would take off from. According to the publication, the aircraft commander stopped navigating in space immediately after takeoff. Instead of relying on instrument readings, as required by all flight instructions, pilot Volkov began to rely on his own physiological sensations. The vestibular apparatus "informed" him that the car was climbing too fast, so the major began to lower the nose of the plane. This, as Kommersant writes, led to the crash.

However, the Investigative Committee, which has already extended the investigation several times, should put an end to the clarification of the causes of the disaster. Last Wednesday, a source familiar with the situation told RIA Novosti that specialists would need a few more months. According to him, the repeated suspensions are due to the need for additional investigative actions and the collection of exhaustive evidence in the criminal case.

“It is quite possible that this is not the last extension of the investigation due to the fact that a complex examination is currently being carried out, which is not possible to complete in a short time,” the source emphasized.

The Russian Ministry of Defense denied the version that the crash of the Tu-154 aircraft in the Black Sea was due to the error of the co-pilot.

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“All the published rumors about the allegedly established causes of the Tu-154 plane crash in Sochi are absolute nonsense and fiction. The commission to investigate the plane crash continues to work,” said Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry. “We consider it unacceptable and immoral to try to unfoundedly blame someone and come up with some conclusions before the conclusion of the investigation."

Earlier, the publication Life reported that after the complete decoding of the black boxes, experts called . According to alleged specialists of the Ministry of Defense, the Tu-154 crashed due to the fact that the board went on its last flight overloaded, and co-pilot Alexander Rovensky mixed up the landing gear and flaps control levers on takeoff. When the crew noticed the mistake, it was already too late: the heavy Tu-154 simply did not have enough height for a saving maneuver, so it hit the water with the tail section of the fuselage.

According to Life's source, who is familiar with the investigation into the causes of the disaster, the human factor is recognized as a priority version of the Tu-154 crash. "Studied by the experts of the Research Center for the Operation and Repair of Aircraft of the Ministry of Defense in Lyubertsy, the data of voice and parametric recorders say that in the third minute of the flight, when the liner was at an altitude of 450 meters above sea level, the sensors of the directional stability system worked. The car began to sharply lose altitude from -for problems with the flaps," a source told the publication.

Experts believe that this happened after the co-pilot, 33-year-old captain Alexander Rovensky, instead of retracting the landing gear, retracted the flaps. Because of this, the plane went into a prohibitive angle of attack, the crew tried to turn the car around to reach the ground, but did not have time to do this.

It also turned out that the situation was aggravated by the overload of the Tu-154. In the luggage compartment, everything was filled to capacity. The tail of the aircraft pulled down. The tail section of the first touched the water, and then the Tu-154 hit the sea with its right wing at high speed and collapsed.

The site reported that, according to one version, the plane of the Russian Defense Ministry crashed after trying to maneuver to the right. At the same time, his nose was heavily bulged.

“The accident occurred when the pilots were removing the mechanization. At the same time, for unknown reasons, the plane was flying with a large pitch angle. Apparently, it stalled from the echelon during the maneuver to the right,” a source in law enforcement agencies told TASS. “As a result, at the end of the turn, it collided with the water surface with a left bank at a speed of about 510 km / h. According to experts, the cause of this situation could be a crew error and a problem with one of the engines.

The FSB of Russia also established an eyewitness to the crash of the airliner, according to whom, the crew tried to land. The witness noted that the position of the aircraft in the air seemed strange to him even for landing, as it flew with an unnaturally upturned nose, like a motorcycle put on the rear wheel. A moment later, the plane touched the surface of the sea with its tail, which fell off on impact, after which it fell into the water and quickly sank.

The "strange" decrease, which the eyewitness spoke about, could be caused by a desynchronization of the retraction of the wing mechanization. According to the expert, during takeoff and landing, all parts of the wings must move synchronously, and non-synchronous release of the flaps can lead to the death of the liner, experts suggested.

“If passengers are not fully loaded, if there are a significant number of empty seats, it is possible to load the aircraft in such a way and seat passengers in such a way that the centering will go beyond the permissible limits. This will create problems on takeoff and in flight, and maybe even lead to a stall aircraft into a tailspin.

There were 90 passengers on this board. In Sochi, they could transfer on their own, because there were no guides. Passengers could crowd in the rear seats, and this created a rear centering, which during takeoff, after liftoff, leads to nose up, loss of speed and stalling. Perhaps there was a violation of alignment due to the movement of passengers, "- Alfred Malinovsky, Vice-President of the Union of Airmen of Russia, Honored Worker of Transport.

“Our specialists who investigate flight accidents are among the best in the world, and the conclusions they draw from the results of the investigation are the most accurate. Recall, for example, the same case with the Donetsk plane, when our specialists clearly said what and how True, the world community refused to accept the conclusions of our experts and specialists.

A large number of specialists were involved, as many as three commissions are working: in Adler, and two in the Moscow region. That is, directly at the Chkalovsky airfield, the forces of the 30th institute are still involved. Previously, it was the head institute of the Air Force, there are also high-class specialists there. And, of course, the research centers that we have in Ramenskoye, the Lyubertsy Center,” Alexei Leonkov, a military expert of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine and a specialist in the use of military space forces, told Pravda.ru.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I remembered the main claims to the pilots.

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

- loss of orientation in space;

- in the illusory perception of reality;

The flight was at night and therefore difficult.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now about the airfield in Chkalovsky.

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

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

The experts of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation completed a complete decoding of the black boxes and were able to name the final reason, which on December 25, 2016 over the Black Sea. According to experts, in which it happened due to a combination of factors - the plane was overloaded and the co-pilot made a mistake while controlling the aircraft, writes L!FE.

According to the source, investigators consider the notorious human factor to be a priority. According to experts, the problem with the flaps, due to which the plane began to lose altitude sharply, was directly related to the mistake of the co-pilot of the passenger plane, 33-year-old Alexander Rovensky.

“In the third minute of the flight, when the Tu-154 was at an altitude of 450 m above sea level, the sensors of the directional stability system worked. As a result, the car began to lose altitude sharply due to problems with the flaps. I tried to force the car to turn around in order to reach the ground, but I didn’t have time to do it,” said a source familiar with the investigation into the causes of the plane crash in Sochi.

Experts are sure that the reason for the malfunction of the aircraft mechanism was a banal one - when the airliner took off, instead of the landing gear, he pulled the wrong lever and removed the flaps. This is the main version of the causes of the tragedy, in which the members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, the legendary and 9 journalists of Russian TV channels, who flew to Syrian Latakia, died to give a charity concert to the military from the Russian Federation, who were forced into New Year serve in Syria.

The Ministry of Defense also adds that the situation was further aggravated by another factor - the overload of the aircraft. In the luggage compartment of the Tu-154, everything was filled to capacity. Therefore, the tail of the liner was pulled down.

To save the car, according to experts, it was impossible - there was not enough speed and height. The tail section of the first touched the water, and then the Tu-154 hit the sea with its right wing at high speed and collapsed, which led to the death of all on board. The source emphasizes that the emergency situation was a complete surprise for the crew: in the first seconds, the aircraft commander, 35-year-old Major Roman Volkov, and co-pilot Alexander Rovensky were confused, but quickly pulled themselves together and tried to save the plane until the last seconds.

At the same time, experts from the Russian Ministry of Defense consider the announced cause of the crash of the Tu-154 "" premature. Experts emphasize that there is still a huge amount of work to be done to collect and lay out the wreckage of the liner in order to talk about the exact causes of the tragedy.

Recall that the plane crash in Sochi occurred on December 25, 2016. The Tu-154 aircraft of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation at 5:40 am Moscow time, 1.7 km from the coast of Sochi, crashed over the Black Sea. The plane, which was carrying 92 people, flew to the Syrian Khmeimim from the Chkalovsky airfield, and in Sochi it was only refueling. A few minutes after taking off from the runway, the plane disappeared from the radar screens.