The results of an investigation into the crash of Tu-154 over the Black Sea have appeared on the Web. According to the published information, the fatigue of the crew became the cause of the tragedy.

"The cause of the Tu-154-B-2 disaster was a violation of the spatial orientation (situational awareness) of the aircraft commander, which led to his erroneous actions with the aircraft controllers, as a result of which the aircraft went down during the climb and collided with the water surface." , - says the report published in the Telegram channel "Captain Vrungel". The document notes "the lack of an adequate response of the captain of the aircraft" to the reports of the crew members, as well as sound and light signals.

Several factors contributed to the impairment of spatial orientation: excessive mental stress, emotional and physiological fatigue, and a deficit in the skills of the captain's attention distribution. The lack of mandatory control over the execution of flights by the military command also led to the tragedy.

"The military transport aviation was not ready for the large-scale challenges posed by the task of organizing a continuous air bridge to Syria. The problem is complex, the lack of trained crews, an outdated training and control system, the command's disregard for the work and rest hours of crews," - noted the author of the Telegram channel.

The report contains a list of violations committed at the military base during the preparation of the Tu-154 departure. For example, the crew was manned from different squadrons, it did not include a radio operator - an on-board translator. There were no classes and training sessions for the pilots, and they passed a medical examination earlier than two hours before departure.

Experts added that during the refueling of the Tu-154, passengers were not embarked or disembarked, and no additional cargo was placed on board. Problems arose in the seventh second of the flight, as the captain "had difficulties in determining his position on the territory of the aerodrome due to his idea of ​​the take-off course."

Recall that the crash of the Tu-154 of the Ministry of Defense occurred on December 25, 2016 near Sochi. The plane crashed into the Black Sea. All 92 people on board were killed, including journalists from federal channels, the head of the fund " Fair help"Elizaveta Glinka, as well as the leader and artists of the Alexandrov ensemble.

If you follow the new data, the crew could go on a flight not rested. At the same time, it is possible that even the reflection of stars in the water could disorient the pilots. What do aviation experts say about such versions?

Search and rescue operations at the crash site of the Tu-154 of the Russian Defense Ministry off the coast of Sochi. Photo: EMERCOM of Russia / TASS

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Tu-154, which crashed in Sochi in December, did not fall into the sea, but tried to land on the water in a controlled flight. As it became known to the newspaper "Kommersant", the technical part of the investigation of the disaster has been completed. The conclusions made by the experts of the military technical commission turned out to be shocking, according to the publication.

The pilot's behavior was called strange. The reason for this is now being looked for along the administrative line: the Ministry of Defense is studying the medical record of the deceased pilot and the results of his passing psychological tests, interviewing the instructors who taught the major to fly, and also finding out whether the crew's rest before the flight was organized correctly.

As shown by 3D modeling, the plane took off normally. After takeoff, the crew did not perform any of the traditional similar cases mistakes. About a minute after taking off from the ground, the Tu-154 gained an altitude of about 250 meters and a speed of about 360-370 kilometers per hour. After that, the commander of the crew, Roman Volkov, for some unknown reason, put the plane into landing mode. The car descended for ten seconds under the control of the control pilot, and then hit the water and collapsed.

According to experts, the pilot's disorientation in space could become the cause of the tragedy. Gaining altitude in the dark, over the sea, the pilot did not visually control the position of the machine, since he did not see any landmarks and horizon ahead. By ignoring the readings of the instruments, Volkov could trust his physiological sensations. Even the stars, which were both above and below, in the form of reflections on the surface of the water, could disorient the crew. The overload arising during the acceleration of the car could create the illusion of a climb for the pilot - while in fact the plane was descending.

Experts explain what happened not by Volkov's mistake, but by coincidence. As it turned out, the pilots were tired because they had to land in Adler instead of Mozdok and fly at night, although the flight was planned in the daytime.

The military is trying to figure out what caused the stressful state of the crew commander. According to the newspaper, experts seized in medical institutions all his documents and results of psychological tests. The Tu-154 pilots could incorrectly correlate the personal feelings of the airliner position with the instrument readings, a source told Interfax. familiar with the situation. “They encountered the so-called phenomenon of somatogravitational illusion,” the source explained.

In turn, the commander of the Yak-40 and An-26, pilot-instructor Yevgeny Samsonov believes that the pilots of the Ministry of Defense could hardly have made such a mistake.

Evgeny Samsonov instructor pilot “This can only happen for pilots who are just starting to learn to fly. Well, let's say in the first 30 minutes, in the first hour of instrument flights, after five hours of instrument flights, and after ten hours of instrument flights, when the pilot starts flying, it all goes away for him. A person is already getting used to looking at devices and trusting his feelings only to them, and he simply does not notice his feelings. This can only happen with poor pilot training or with long interruptions in flights. Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of pilots fly every day. In the whole history in the same Adler in Sochi and no one has ever had any illusions. They fly both day and night, and in fog, and in bad weather. The pilot is piloting by instruments. Let one and a half thousand hours of flight he had on this - before he also flew on instruments. I don't think he was distracted or anything else. He could be distracted for some other reason, but watching and piloting the plane by the stars is not. "

According to preliminary data, as a result of a similar phenomenon - loss of orientation in flight - suffered a catastrophe. Honored Pilot of the USSR, Chairman of the Commission for civil aviation of the Public Council of Rostransnadzor Oleg Smirnov believes that any pilot can face such a problem in flight:

Oleg Smirnov Chairman of the Civil Aviation Commission of the Public Council of Rostransnadzor“Loss of spatial orientation in flight is a fairly common cause of plane crashes in the world throughout the history of aviation. When, let's say, I took off for the first time in Sochi at 2 a.m. on a large Il-18 plane and suddenly noticed that my brain was protesting something: beautiful weather, clear - and he protested, because suddenly he saw that the stars were above, and below you. This is that nuance, which in no case should be carried out. This leads to a loss of spatial orientation. There is only one way out - strict instrument piloting. This illusion occurs in any pilot who falls into it. The commission will very quickly line up this row of those who were behind the crew that did not rest, very quickly. Moreover, a number of surnames, specific, job-related: who did not give the opportunity, planned the flight so that the crew flew not rested with such a responsible composition of passengers. "

In the Ministry of Defense itself, the version about a possible error of the crew is rejected. In all the messages of the department, it was repeatedly said about the experience and impeccable track record of the members of the crashed crew.

The investigation into the case of the Tu-154 crash over the Black Sea continues, it has not yet come to definite conclusions. Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky told reporters about this. He called the versions published in the media "rather guesses."

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"A terrorist attack is not just an explosion"

The government commission of the Russian Federation announced the first conclusions about the crash of the Tu-154

Russian Emergencies Ministry website

The version of the terrorist attack is still being considered, albeit not among the main ones, but as possible reasons the crash of the Tu-154 of the Russian Defense Ministry over the Black Sea near Sochi, members of the government commission to investigate the circumstances of the crash of the liner, headed by the Minister of Transport of Russia Maxim Sokolov, told reporters today. At the same time, there is no talk of decommissioning the Tu-154 by the military after the Sochi disaster: aircraft of this type have proven themselves well.

The entire flight of the aircraft of the Ministry of Defense before the crash on the morning of December 25 lasted about 70 seconds. The height from which the liner fell into the Black Sea was about 250 meters, and the plane's speed was highest point flight was within 360-370 kilometers per hour, said at a briefing to a member of the commission for the investigation of the Sochi disaster, head of the Aviation Aviation Safety Service Sergei Bainetov.

According to him, it is still difficult to judge the reliability of the information about the "raised nose" of the aircraft, which was disseminated by the media earlier with reference to the words of eyewitnesses. “We approach identified, everything is checked and analyzed with the objective information that we have. It is premature to talk about what the angle was when hitting the water surface, ”said the member of the commission.

Likewise, he said, it is difficult to draw conclusions based on the short radio traffic, the content of which became available after the transcript of a voice recorder found at the crash site.

“The radio traffic was extremely short. There was a special situation for 10 seconds. I cannot tell you about the flaps and other things that we have heard, ”Bainetov said, answering journalists' questions. - Everything was quite regular, but there was one phrase that speaks of the development of a special situation. She doesn't tell us anything else ”.

According to him, the version of the terrorist attack is still being considered, although not as the main one. There are no traces of fire or explosion on the wreckage of the aircraft and the bodies of passengers. “There was definitely no explosion on board, but a terrorist attack is not only an explosion,” noted the head of the Air Force's Aviation Safety Service. In general, according to him, the initial circle of more than 15 versions of the disaster was halved - to seven - after receiving data from both "black boxes" caught by divers. Sergei Bainetov noted that there were only two recorders on board the Tu-154.

He also said that the embarrassing landing at the Sochi Adler airport was indeed for a regular refueling. This is provided for in the flight plan to Syria. Usually the airport in Mozdok is used for these purposes, but on the day of the disaster it was closed for meteorological conditions, Bainetov explained.

He stressed that only border guards were on board in Sochi.

For a detailed study of the data on the operation of the aircraft and the analysis of its operation, at least 10 days are required, and to bring all the data together and draw conclusions, at least 30 days, Bainetov said. The best specialists deal with technical issues, he said. “We were able to gather a large group of professionals and experts, with whose help we hope to find out the cause of the incident in the near future,” he stressed.

The final conclusions about the causes of what happened will be only after the final decoding of the flight recorders and a total analysis of what happened, said Minister Maxim Sokolov. According to him, the decoding of the data of the two flight recorders is planned to be completed in the near future, possibly on January 30. Experts assess the condition of both black boxes as good.

Now, the minister noted, the main phase of the search operation has been completed, but this does not mean that the search is over. On the this moment 18 ships and floating crafts remain in the area of ​​the disaster. Sokolov stressed that work on the identification of bodies is coming to the fore, in which genetic examinations will play a large role. The necessary samples of genetic material have already been collected from the relatives of the victims, the head of the Ministry of Transport said.

He clarified that at the moment 19 bodies and all the elements of the plane that are most important for the investigation have been raised. The laying out of the fragments of the liner on the shore began for an investigative experiment.

State Secretary - Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov said that the families of the killed servicemen will be paid insurance payments through the SOGAZ company. The amount of payments will be 5.8 million rubles. According to Pankov, 11 families of servicemen have already received these payments. The first victim was buried at the Federal War Memorial Cemetery in the Moscow Region on December 28, Pankov also said. The funeral of the rest of the victims can be held only after the completion of the genetic examinations.

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 to last flight overloaded and the co-pilot Alexander Rovensky on takeoffconfused 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 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. - said the source. - The car began to lose altitude sharply due to problems with the flaps.

According to experts, this 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 in order to reach the ground, but did not manage to do this, ”the source added.

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 the 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 they quickly pulled themselves together and before last seconds tried to save the plane.

From the phrases of the co-pilot and the commander of the ship, it becomes clear that something happened to the flaps, after which an alarm sounded because of the limiting angle of attack of the Tu-154.

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 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, '' said honored pilot of the Russian Federation Viktor Sazhenin, who himself flew on the Tu-154 for eight years. - 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 said.

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.

Most likely, neither the commander of the plane, Roman Volkov, nor the co-pilot, Alexander Rovensky, who graduated from military schools in the early 2000s, did not undergo special flight training, '' says a source in the commission to investigate the disaster in Sochi.

According to him, if the pilots had undergone special training for piloting in extreme situations at the Lipetsk Aviation Center for retraining of military pilots or at the Gromov Flight Research Institute, then, perhaps, the catastrophe could have been avoided.

In the military schools that the pilots graduated from, they were unlikely to be trained, how, if the flaps malfunction at low altitudes, put them on the reverse release in order to bring the liner out of the outrageous angle of attack, the expert explained.

In addition, the engineers of the Research Center for the Operation and Repair of Aircraft of the Ministry of Defense in Lyubertsy do not exclude that when the crew tried to turn the car to reach the ground, it had a good chance of rescue, if not for the overload.

The overload is evidenced by the fact that when the plane began to lose altitude, the tail section was the first to hit the water, which fell off, and then the car caught the water with its right wing and crashed into the sea, says a source in the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.

According to him, it cannot be ruled out that luggage compartment just overloaded.

After all, this was almost the last flight of a civilian aircraft to Syria, and the relatives and colleagues of the military on a business trip could beg the management of the airfield and the crew to take on board the excess, the expert says. - And during the flight and after landing in Sochi, the load could shake. During takeoff from Sochi, the cargo moved to the tail section of the airliner, and the car pulled down in an emergency situation with the flaps.

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 Squadron 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.

By official version the crash of Tu-154 in Sochi on December 25, 2016, instead of a man, an orangutan turned out to be at the helm of the plane, who became ridiculous to pull the control knobs, which led to the tragedy. If we draw a parallel with driving, it would look like this: the driver got behind the wheel, started, and drove into a snowdrift. I handed it back - and crumpled three cars next to me. Then he drove forward - and crashed with all the foolishness into a garbage container, which was the end of the trip.

Conclusion: either the driver was dead drunk - or something happened to the car.

But the Tu-154 recorders showed that the plane was fully operational. And to assume that the pilot began to take off in a dead state in front of the other crew members, not suicides, also does not work. And his voice on the recorder is absolutely sober.

However, the plane crashed - allegedly as a result of inexplicable actions of the crew. Or is there still an explanation - but the military leadership desperately hides it?

Savvy journalists have unearthed that the plane may have been heavily overloaded - hence all the consequences. Moreover, he was overloaded not at the Sochi airport Adler, where he made an intermediate landing, but at the Chkalovsky military airfield near Moscow, from where he started.

The weight of the excess cargo is more than 10 tons. However, at Chkalovsky, according to the documents, 10 tons less kerosene was poured into this Tu-1542B-2 - 24 tons, as a result, the total weight of the aircraft was 99.6 tons. This exceeded the norm by only 1.6 tons - and therefore it was not critical. The pilot probably noted that the takeoff there took place with an effort - but there could be many reasons for this: wind, atmospheric pressure, air temperature.

But in Adler, where the plane landed for refueling, this refueling played a fatal role. Fuel was added to the aircraft tanks already under the plug - up to 35.6 tons, which is why its take-off weight became more than 10 tons more than the permissible one.

And if we accept this version with overload, everything further gets the most logical explanation.

The aircraft took off from the Adler runway at a speed of 320 km / h - instead of the nominal 270 km / h. Further ascent occurred at a speed of 10 meters per second - instead of the usual 12-15 m / s.

And 2 seconds after taking off from the ground, the commander of the ship, Roman Volkov, pulled the steering wheel towards himself in order to increase the take-off angle. The fact is that the take-off and landing trajectories are strictly defined at each airfield: landing is more gentle, takeoff is steeper. This is necessary in order to separate in height the airliners taking off and going to land - without which they would constantly face a collision in the air.

But an increase in the ascent angle led to a drop in speed - an aircraft that was too heavy refused to perform this maneuver. Then the pilot, probably already realizing that they had put some kind of pig on him in the form of an extra load, moved the steering wheel away from him in order to stop the ascent and thereby pick up speed.

This happened at an altitude of 200 meters - and if the plane had remained in this echelon, even in violation of all the rules, the tragedy might not have happened. But Volkov piloted the car outside of its permissible modes - which no one had done before, since overload flights are strictly prohibited. And how the plane behaved in these conditions is hard to imagine. In addition, it is possible that that extra load, being poorly secured, also violated the alignment of the aircraft during takeoff.

As a result, a slight panic arose in the cockpit. The pilots began to retract the flaps ahead of schedule - in order to reduce air resistance and thereby gain speed faster.

Then a dangerous rapprochement began with the water, over which the take-off line was. The speed was already decent - 500 km / h, Volkov abruptly took the steering wheel over himself in order to raise the plane, simultaneously starting a turn - apparently, he decided to return to the airfield. Then the irreparable happened: the plane, in response to the pilot's actions, did not go up, but crashed into the water, scattering from a collision with it into fragments ...

Such a scenario, based on the data of the recorders, is absolutely consistent - and looks much more plausible than Shoigu's delusional explanation that the pilot lost his spatial orientation and, instead of climbing, began to perform a descent.

During takeoff, no spatial orientation at all is required from the pilot. Before him are two main devices: an altimeter and a speed indicator, he monitors their readings, not being distracted by the views outside the window ...

You can also ask: how did an overloaded plane manage to get off the runway? The answer is simple: there is a so-called ground effect, which significantly increases the lift of the wings up to 15 meters above the ground. By the way, the concept of ekranoplanes is based on it - semi-semi-aircraft semi-ships flying within these 15 meters of height with a much larger load on board than aircraft of equal power ...

Well, and now the most important questions.

First: what kind of cargo was placed in the belly of this Tu - and by whom?

It is clear that these were not the lightweight medications of Dr. Lisa on this flight, and not armored personnel carrier: a passenger plane does not have a wide port for the entry of all kinds of equipment. This cargo was obviously heavy and compact enough to enter through the cargo hatch.

And which one - you can assume anything here: boxes of vodka, shells, gold ingots, Sobyaninsk tiles ... And why it was decided to send it not by cargo, but by passenger flight - there could be any reasons too. From slovenliness for non-dispatch of combat cargo, which they decided to cover gradually - to the most criminal schemes for the export of precious metal or other contraband.

Another question: did the pilots know about this left cargo? For sure! This is not a needle in a haystack, but a whole haystack that cannot be hidden from view. But what exactly was there and what the true weight of it was - the pilots might not know. After all, this is an army, where the order of the highest rank is higher than all instructions; and most likely that order was supplied with some other generous promise - with a hint of all sorts of intrigues in case of refusal. Under the influence of such an explosive mixture, a lot of malfeasance is being committed today - when a forced person is faced with a choice: either to earn decent money - or to be left without work and without pants.

And the well-known Russian, perhaps, at the same time, as they say, has not been canceled!

Who ordered it? There can also be a large spread here: from any lieutenant colonel, deputy for armaments - to colonel general. Depending on what kind of cargo was put on the plane.

In short, in Chkalovsky the plane is overloaded, but this overload is compensated for by incomplete refueling - and in Adler, the tanks are already being filled to capacity. Obviously, the calculation was to fly with your own fuel to the Syrian Khmeimim (destination) and back. And the fact that the commander of the ship agreed in Adler for these 35.6 tons of fuel speaks in favor of the fact that he still did not know the real value of the overload. He will fly alone - you can still admit the dashing daring, which Chkalov himself laid the foundation for in our aviation. But behind Volkov's back were his own crew of 7 people, and another 84 passengers, including the artists of the Alexandrov ensemble!

The fact that the Ministry of Defense in this matter is not just obscuring, but with might and main is hiding the truth - such facts speak.

1. Shoigu's version of "violation of the spatial orientation (situational awareness) of the commander, which led to erroneous actions with the aircraft controls" does not stand up to criticism. For any pilot, not only with 4000 flight hours, like Volkov's, but with ten times less, takeoff is the simplest action that does not require any special skills. For example, landing in adverse weather conditions is a completely different matter. The crash during the landing of the same Tu-154 from the Polish delegation near Smolensk is a typical example of the pilot's lack of skill and experience. But no one has ever crashed during takeoff on a serviceable plane.

2. The decoding of the recorders probably already in the first days after the tragedy gave the whole alignment of what had happened. An analogy with the same Polish case in 2010 is appropriate here: then, on the 5th day, the IAC (Interstate Aviation Committee) issued an exhaustive version of the incident, which was fully confirmed later.

The IAC has been stubbornly silent about the Adler catastrophe for 6 months already. On his website, where they publish detailed analyzes of all flight accidents - only two short messages that the investigation is ongoing. And another meaningful passage:

“To investigate this disaster, the resources of research and expert institutions have been attracted. Among them is the Interstate Aviation Committee, which has extensive experience in investigating accidents with Tu-154 aircraft and the necessary resources to provide assistance in order to expedite the investigation. At the same time, the IAC informs that the official comments on this investigation are provided exclusively by the Russian Ministry of Defense. "

That is, read, "we were gagged, sorry."

3. Naturally, the Minister of Defense in the very first hours, if not minutes after the disaster, found out what kind of cargo was on board the crashed Tu. And the incredibly long search for the wreckage of the plane, which added absolutely nothing to the information of the recorders, suggests that they were looking for that very secret cargo. And not at all the truth, which was immediately clear to the military.

Well, and another question: why do the military, headed by their minister, hide this truth so much? And from whom - from Putin himself or from the people?

Well, to be hidden from Putin, I very much doubt: he does not look like a person who can be fooled around like that. That means they are hiding from the people. It means that this truth is such that it somehow terribly undermines the prestige of our military.

That is, either some lieutenant colonel, a complete idiot, loaded into a passenger plane something that should not have been close. And then a shadow on our entire army, in which such idiots are on a horse that they can ruin the backbone of Alexandrov's ensemble with their idiocy.

Or is the colonel-general involved, entering the very head - and then also shame and disgrace: it turns out that after Serdyukov was replaced by Shoigu, our army was not cleansed of the general outrage?

And the last thing. Remember, when we watched the film "Chapayev" as a child, many of us shouted in the audience: "Chapay, run!" Just as spontaneously, today, when everything became almost clear with the Adler tragedy, I would like to shout to the pilot Volkov: “Don't take this load! But if he took it - don't fly higher than 200 meters above the sea! "

After all, if you look at the calm mind, which was not praised by the pilot, who got into a storm of circumstances, he had a chance of salvation. Namely: when overloading an aircraft, do not even try to comply with the instructions, which obliges to climb to such and such a height at a certain distance from the airfield. Violate it to hell, get a reprimand for it, even if it is fired, but save your own life and the lives of others. That is, to fly at a minimum altitude, producing fuel - and when the weight of the aircraft decreases in an hour and a half, start climbing.

Another thing that again suggests itself is that if you decided to return to Adler, make a U-turn not by a standard turn with a side roll, which knocked the plane into the sea, but by the so-called “pancake”. That is, one rudder - when the plane remains in horizontal plane, and the turning radius at the same time greatly increases: a maneuver that is practically not used in modern aviation.

Yes, only this chance, which could have saved this plane, in the future plan would still be ghostly and murderous. For example, Volkov could have managed to get out of the disastrous situation set by the organizers of his flight. Then the next time he or his colleague would be hung not 10, but 15 extra tons of some "unspecified" cargo: after all, appetites grow as their satisfaction. And the tragedy would have happened all the same - not in this case, so in the next, while maintaining its causes.

May God grant that as a result of this catastrophe, someone in our armed forces will give someone a good blow on their brains, putting an end to the outrages that led to an inevitable outcome.

Alexander Roslyakov