How many bodies were found after the plane crash? The bodies of those killed in Sochi were badly broken, as if there were no bones at all. What is more: personal belongings or aircraft parts?

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. Moreover, in the sky above the crash site, even now, in dark time days, helicopters operate. 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 they continue to search for fragments of the plane using radar equipment.

Early in the morning of December 25, a Tu-154 plane flying to Syria crashed into the Black Sea, one and a half kilometers from the shores of Sochi.

Also on board the Tu-154 was Elizaveta Glinka, the head of the Fair Aid Foundation, known for her charitable activities. Doctor Lisa worked with her for about 20 years. Several times she participated in the evacuation of wounded children of Donbass. Since 2015, Elizaveta Glinka has repeatedly visited the territory of Syria on humanitarian missions - she was engaged in the delivery and distribution of medicines, providing medical care to the civilian population of the Arab Republic.

Who else was on the Tu-154?

The head of the song and dance ensemble of the Russian Army named after Alexandrov, General Valery Khalilov, was also on board. A well-known conductor and composer, he many times conducted combined orchestras of the Ministry of Defense during parades in honor of Victory Day on Red Square. He was also the artistic director of the Spasskaya Tower festival of military bands, which became one of business cards not only Moscow, but throughout Russia.

What happens at the site of a plane crash?

As already reported, in the search operation in the area where the Tu-154 plane crashed in the Black Sea near Sochi in this moment Four vessels and five military helicopters are involved. Divers from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, who have permission to work at depths from 20 to 90 meters, are also working in the area of ​​the disaster.

How many people were on the crashed Tu-154 plane?

Let us remind you that the Tu-154 aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Defense disappeared from radars after taking off from Sochi. There were 92 people on board the aircraft - military personnel, as well as artists from the Alexandrov Ensemble, human rights activists and nine representatives of the Russian media. The plane was heading to Syria, where the artists were supposed to wish Happy New Year to the military personnel of the Khmeimim base in Latakia.

Maintenance check

The question of the preparedness of the Tu-154 crew, according to the minister, will be studied by the technical commission of the Ministry of Defense. “As part of the technical investigation of the Ministry of Defense, all these issues will be studied further. The aircraft commander, as we now know, had sufficient flight hours,” the minister emphasized.

The issue of continued operation of the Tu-154 will be decided by the defense department itself, Sokolov said. “Crashed Tu-154 type aircraft in civil aviation Russian Federation has not been used for a long time. These aircraft are in service with departments of the Ministry of Defense, and it will be up to them to decide how to continue or suspend operation, or carry out any additional work. But all this can be discussed only after an analysis of the current circumstances, which the Ministry of Defense investigation commission has just begun,” Neradko said. Sokolov also stated that work to search and recover the Tu-154 wreckage and the bodies of the victims will continue on December 26.

The search will continue tomorrow and in the future, if necessary. We will try to do everything to ensure that the dead are found.

Maxim Sokolov Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation

What about the wreckage of the Tu-154?

Earlier, a source in the emergency services told TASS that the fuselage of the plane had not yet been found. “Numerous pieces of debris have been found, but the fuselage itself has not yet been found. The coordinates of his location are being established,” the source said.

Where was the plane going?

The plane of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which was supposed to deliver military personnel, media representatives and members of the ensemble named after A. V. Alexandrov to the air base in Khmeimim in Syria, disappeared from the radar screens a few minutes after taking off from Adler airport. There were 92 people on board. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, among the passengers were Elizaveta Glinka, known as Doctor Lisa, Director of the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense Anton Gubankov and the head of the ensemble. Alexandrova Valery Khalilov. The wreckage of the plane was later found 1.5 km from the coast in the Sochi region at a depth of 50-70 meters.

Photos from the Tu-154 crash

A Tu-154 plane, taking off from Adler airport to Syrian Latakia, crashed over the Black Sea.

On board were journalists and artists of the ensemble named after. Alexandrova.

In total, there were 92 people on board, including 8 crew members and 84 passengers, including 68 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble.

Also on the plane was the director of the Fair Aid International Organization, Elizaveta Glinka, known as Doctor Lisa.

Also on the plane were journalists from three Russian television companies: NTV, Zvezda and Channel One.

They were flying on military base Khmeimim to perform in front of the Russian military in Syria in honor of the New Year.

The head of state instructed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to form a state commission to investigate the Tu-154 crash.

A police officer watches the proceedings.

Search and rescue operations off the Black Sea coast, where the Russian Ministry of Defense Tu-154 plane crashed.

Search and rescue operations off the Black Sea coast, where the Russian Ministry of Defense Tu-154 plane crashed.

An Mi-8 helicopter performing search and rescue operations off the Black Sea coast, where a Tu-154 Russian Defense Ministry plane crashed.

Search and rescue operations off the Black Sea coast, where the Russian Ministry of Defense Tu-154 plane crashed.

Flowers near the building of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A.V. Alexandrov in Moscow.

Flowers at the international office public organization“Fair Aid” in memory of Elizaveta Glinka (Doctor Lisa), who died in the Tu-154 plane crash.

People lay flowers near the Ostankino television center to photographs of journalists killed in the crash of a Russian Ministry of Defense Tu-154 plane off the Black Sea coast in Sochi.

Video of the crashed Tu-154 plane

In Sochi, a Tu-154 plane crashed in the Black Sea

RUSSIAN TU-154 PLANE CRASHED, WRECKAGE FOUND AFTER THE CRASH

Dorenko: Tu-154 plane of the Ministry of Defense crashed in the Black Sea

Recording of the last communication session with the Tu 154 aircraft that crashed in the Black Sea near Sochi

“The debris was at a depth of 25 meters and was scattered over a strip of 400 meters,” he said. According to Interfax, the sonar of one of the ships participating in the search for fragments of the aircraft detected an object similar in outline to the fuselage of the aircraft one and a half kilometers from the coast. It is noted that this part is deeply immersed in the silt.

However, the flight recorders of the airliner have not yet been found. They were located in the keel (elements empennage) liner. On military aircraft, black boxes are not equipped with radio beacons. The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Victor, in a conversation with journalists, emphasized that “if an aircraft is discovered at the bottom of the sea, information storage devices will definitely be raised. We know where they are - they are in the keel. I'm sure it was the keel that suffered the least damage because the bottom part and the fuselage were the ones that touched."

To the clarifying question whether the location of the “black boxes” had been established, the commander-in-chief replied: “Of course.” Bondarev emphasized that “the plane was technically sound, it recently underwent technical repairs.”

“The readiness of the crew fully met all requirements,” he added. Earlier it was reported that a spare ladder from the lost Tu-154 was also found at sea.

According to a source in medical circles, the body of the first crash victim has already been identified in Moscow, TASS reports. “In Moscow, where the first plane carrying the bodies of those killed in the plane crash arrived this morning, the identification process has begun. The first victim of the disaster has been identified,” the agency’s source said, without disclosing the name of the person identified.

On Sunday, December 25, the Tu-154 took off from Moscow to the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. There were 62 people on board, including crew members, members of the Alexandrov military ensemble, executive director of the Fair Aid Foundation, member Elizaveta Glinka (known as Doctor Lisa). The musicians were supposed to give a concert for the Russian military participating in the operation on Syrian territory, and Glinka was going there to resolve issues related to humanitarian assistance.

Soon after the tragedy, information appeared that the first deputy head of the Culture Committee, People's Artist of the USSR, as well as the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, was supposed to fly to Syria on the same plane. However, the first did not go on this trip, as he went abroad for treatment, and the second told reporters that instead of Syria she went on an urgent business trip to Crimea. There were also three film crews on board the plane: from TV channels, Zvezda and Channel One.

On the way to the Khmeimim airfield, the plane had to refuel in Mozdok. However, due to unfavorable weather conditions it was decided to land at an alternate airfield in Adler ( Krasnodar region). It was from there that he flew to Syria at 5.40 Moscow time.

At the seventh minute of the flight, the Tu-154 disappeared from the radars of ground services. At the same time, the crew did not give a distress signal.

It soon became clear that he fell into the Black Sea, where an oil stain from the car was found. Almost immediately it was possible to find eyewitnesses of the aircraft crash.

“My husband and I stood and listened to the sound of the sea, then we heard a plane take off. The motors worked fine. Out of the corner of my eye I saw - airplanes fly with lights - right above the sea, a bright flash, or rather, not a flash, but the light from the airplane headlights and then splashes. And very big ones,” said a resident Krasnodar region one of the Russian TV channels.

“At that moment there was no more engine noise. That is, the motors no longer worked. They somehow died at one point. They buzzed, buzzed, and suddenly they died out and splashed,” she added.

The flash that this woman is talking about was caught on someone's dash cam. Soon this recording was posted on the Internet, however, it is not possible for a non-specialist to say anything specific after viewing it. A few hours after the tragedy, several

The media reported that the trajectory along which the liner fell into the sea had been established. But no one ever said what exactly she was.

Initiated a criminal case under Art. 351 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Violation of flight rules resulting in grave consequences.”

Almost immediately after the accident, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that, according to preliminary information, no one managed to escape as a result of this accident. Some details of what happened were also soon published online.

In particular, according to information from a number of media outlets and bloggers, some of those who had the misfortune of being on board the plane managed to put on life jackets before the plane crashed. However, the press service of the Ministry of Defense soon denied this information and emphasized that “from the first hours of the tragedy, the Russian Ministry of Defense, together with other federal departments and services, has been providing the public and journalists with comprehensive and objective information about the progress of the search operation.”

Just before disappearing from the radar, the pilots abruptly changed course - they turned the car 180 degrees.

According to Interfax, the wreckage of the plane after the fall was scattered at a distance of 1.5 to 8 km from coastline. According to the Ministry of Defense, for ease of searching, the area where the vehicle was supposed to fall is divided into 15 sectors, seven of which have already been explored.

It is reported that the plane was flown by an experienced pilot who had 3 thousand flight hours. The crashed car was repaired in 2014 and underwent maintenance in 2016. Shortly after the incident, a number of experts suggested that the plane crash could have been caused by a terrorist attack. This is indicated by the large scatter of the wreckage of the car and the fact that it very quickly fell apart into many small parts. No one also reported what the plane’s trajectory was.

However, already on Monday the Center for Public Relations stated that service specialists did not see signs of a terrorist attack.

Among the main versions are considered “foreign objects entering the engine, poor-quality fuel, resulting in loss of power and engine failure, piloting error, technical problem airplane."

Almost immediately after the incident, a search operation began. Ten bodies of the victims have already been discovered and transported by special flight to Moscow for identification and examination.

Honored Pilot of the USSR, Chairman of the Commission on civil aviation the public council, which previously took part in the investigation of other aircraft accidents, told Gazeta.Ru that now none of the versions of the death of the Tu-154 can be ruled out.

“The large spread of aircraft debris can be explained simply. The fact is that at this speed and at this stage of the flight, the force of the aircraft hitting the water is almost equal to the force with which it would hit the ground. And the fact that the plane turned around before falling, in my opinion, may indicate an involuntary roll of the plane - for example, if its flaps were retracted unevenly. At that stage of the flight when the Tu-154 crashed, the landing gear and flaps were retracted. If they are retracted unevenly, and first, say, the left one, then the right one, this can lead to a sharp roll of the plane and even its flip on its back,” the expert explained. According to him,

There is no objective data yet that would allow us to completely dismiss the version of a terrorist attack or explosion on board the lost airliner.

Smirnov emphasized that now the main task of the commission that is investigating the circumstances of the accident is to find the flight recorders, decipher them, and also lift the maximum possible amount of debris and lay them out along the contour of the aircraft to obtain an objective picture of the incident. The specialist noted that, even if the “black boxes” cannot be detected, analysis of fragments of the airliner can tell us a lot, including why the plane crashed.

“Only for this it is necessary to carry out chemical, physical and mathematical analysis of the debris, as well as a number of other examinations. For example, this was not done for the Boeing that was shot down over Donbass. Our experts have the opportunity to conduct such an analysis, they can do it if they wish,” concluded the honored pilot of the USSR.

Fast news today

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.

At the Khosta sea pier, a candle next to a photograph of a girl in a 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 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 has been spotted in the sky.

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— 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. Did not 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, as they said, only 12 bodies were discovered. Does this mean that the remaining bodies may not be available?

- Today and tomorrow is the X hour, 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 search operations currently being carried out at shallow depths?

— So far, all the parts of the aircraft 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– 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?

- We 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 have survived and also fell 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 let a single person go to 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, a mobile phone charger, a cosmetic bag, boots and a sports bag washed ashore at my feet. 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 the rescuers is to immediately wrap everything in black bags and send it to the Ministry of Emergency Situations base, from there the 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?

“We were given 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 the 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 the fact that there are now witnesses who allegedly saw something 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 don’t 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:

“Before the Tu-154 crash, I noticed an incredible gathering of birds - thousands”

“We can’t rule out a terrorist attack on the Tu-154”: a check on the trustworthiness of airport employees has begun.”

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