The bodies of those killed in Sochi are badly broken, as if without bones at all. The bodies of those killed in Sochi are severely broken, as if without bones at all. Were they all found in a plane crash

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The main part of the body of the aircraft has not yet been found - there may be many bodies of the dead inside

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

Sea port of Khosta. The base of the Ministry of Emergency Situations is still in a tight cordon. On Tuesday, it was decided to completely cordon off the entire coastal zone of Sochi. If on Monday it was still possible to walk on the sea pebbles along the edge of the sea, today the entrance to the beach is prohibited everywhere.

At the sea pier of Khosta, since last night, the candle next to the photograph of a girl in a mourning frame has not yet gone out. 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. Next to her photo, someone put a figurine of a ballerina. 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 the sea, so the belongings of the dead, the remains could be washed ashore at any moment. Therefore, it was decided to block all entrances to the beaches, - explains the strengthening of the regime of the coast guard. - Do not let anyone into the water.

The wind at sea is getting stronger every hour. Rescue boats have increased markedly compared to previous days. A military helicopter is seen in the sky.

See photo report on the topic:

Ballerinas of the Alexandrov ensemble: the girls who died on the Tu-154 were beauties

- After even a little excitement at sea, five fragments of the Tu-154 were found this morning. Many people mistakenly think that calm plays into the hands of search engines, my interlocutor says. — On the contrary, everyone is waiting for the storm, which will facilitate the work of the guys. The fact is that the storm will raise from the bottom and bring to the shore something that for some reason is not visible, it is impossible to get it. On Monday we waited for the storm like manna from heaven. Did not happen. We hope for today.

“What if a storm blows the remains across the sea?”

- Ruled out. A storm can only wash everything ashore.

- Over the past day, as they said, only 12 bodies were found. Does this mean that the rest of the bodies may not get it?

“Today or tomorrow is X hour, when the sea will either give up the dead or take them for itself. That is why today they 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. Guys have a hard time. The water temperature is no more than 5-6 degrees, no suits can save 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. It's already hard work. This is my third day of watching them work. Just imagine, they went to sea, after an hour or two they returned, frozen, chilled to the bone. Quickly changed, dried, warmed up and back again. All those who are on land will never understand those who are in the sea.

— Now prospecting works are carried out at a shallow depth?

- So far, all the details of the aircraft have been found at a depth of 60-70 meters. This is not a critical depth for the Black Sea, everything is still visible there. That's when they completely "scan" the bottom at this depth, they will go looking further. The main task is to find the main body of the aircraft, where most of the dead are probably blocked.

- The location of the main part of the aircraft was not found?

- Haven't found it yet. Apparently, just the main part of the liner lies at a great depth, and it is not visible. Rescuers have high hopes for today's Tuesday.

- But after all, this main part of the body could not be preserved and also fall apart?

They say it's unlikely. Therefore, they think that most of the bodies can supposedly be "shackled" there.

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

Do you see the helicopter flying? Aerial vehicles 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. Understand us correctly, in connection with this situation, the homeless have become more active. Such people come here early in the morning 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. Some of my colleagues saw the decorations. We must not allow strangers to pick up even a trifle from a crashed side. The job of rescuers is to immediately wrap everything in black bags and send it to the base of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, from there things are already sent for examination. In the early days, most things were found. Then on the little things.

— How much time will it take to search?

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

- That is, the rescuers will work on New Year's Eve as well?

- 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 salute in Sochi. After all, usually New Year's fireworks were arranged here right above the sea. Now such fireworks will look blasphemous.

- Information comes to you almost firsthand. What versions of what happened are put forward by the rescuers themselves?

They prefer to wait for an official investigation. As far as I heard, the investigators themselves are at an impasse. Perhaps the decoding of the flight recorder will bring important information. And the fact that now there are witnesses who allegedly saw something is nonsense. The guys who are on duty at sea at night claim that it was unrealistic to see in detail how the plane fell from the shore. Still, it's a good distance. And the nights in Sochi you know how dark. Not even stars.

— Do divers comment on something, tell about their work?

- Divers practically do not communicate with anyone. They come out of the sea in the evening, darker than the clouds. They consider it a bad omen to carry on empty talk.

— Photographs of the dead appeared on the pier. Perhaps their relatives left?

- Relatives of the dead come here. They just try to ignore themselves. Someone came for one day, said goodbye to relatives in this way. Some decided to stay until the end of the search work. So they said: "It is impossible to wait at home." And there, you see, the girl is standing, - she nods to the side. She has been coming here since Monday. Almost every hour he goes up to the pier, stands for five minutes, looks at the sea and leaves.

A young girl dressed in black. On the head - a dense hood completely covers the face. Handkerchief in hand. Brings to the face. Starts. Eyes red with tears. Looks into the distance. Something whispers. As if 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 cluster of birds - thousands”

“Terrorist attack on Tu-154 is not ruled out”: security check of airport employees has begun

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- When did you start searching for the bodies of Tu-154 passengers?

We were given the alarm somewhere around 7 am on Sunday. For another 30 minutes we waited for the coordinates of the main search area - this information came from air traffic controllers. They went out to sea on boats. Soon, helicopters of the search and rescue service of the Ministry of Defense appeared in the sky, then small ships and ships with divers began to approach.

When was the first body discovered?

I didn't watch the clock. In addition, 10 boats worked at once. We recovered the first body about three hours after the start of the helicopter pickup operation. Approximately one and a half kilometers from the coast.

- And who was it?

A woman of about 40 years old. A tightly closed red suitcase floated next to her.

- Judging by your answer about age, she was not disfigured?

She didn't have eyes...

Was her clothes intact?

She was wearing a badly torn cloak... And she was all broken... the impression that without bones... We raised two more from the water about a kilometer from the shore. Two military men, in uniform... Also torn... Young. Well, thirty, thirty-five years ... And the bodies are broken, broken ... That's it, I can't talk anymore, it's hard ... And there is a lot of work.

- Traces of burns on clothes, on the bodies, you did not notice?

The devil knows... The clothes are wet... And it's hard to judge by the skin on the face - it was burned or torn off by something hard upon impact...

The plane, it turns out, fell apart in the air. This version is also supported by the fact that the Tu-154 chassis was found near the coast.

EXPERT OPINION

"Either an explosion, or the strongest blow to the water"

The military medical examiner Captain II rank Alexander KOLESNIKOV answers the question "KP"

Photo of the wreckage of the fuselage of the fallen Tu-154 raised from the bottom of the Black Sea

As a result of a search operation in the Black Sea, a part of the fuselage of the fallen Tu-154 aircraft of the Ministry of Defense was pulled out of the water. At the crash site of the liner - near Adler, almost opposite the airport - specialists from the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Emergency Situations are working.

The middle part of the fuselage was found about 1.8 kilometers from the coast of Sochi at a depth of about 25 meters. The fragment pulled out of the water reaches about five meters in length and five in width, Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent Vladimir Velengurin reports from the site of the search and rescue operation.

Specialists from the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Emergency Situations are working at the crash site of the liner.

The middle part of the fuselage was found about 1.8 kilometers from the coast.

As participants in the operation told KP, before falling into the water, the plane was moving along the glide path towards the water - the runway is located perpendicular to the coastline.

The recovered fragment lay at the bottom at a depth of about 25 meters.

Rescuers pulled out of the water part of the fuselage of the fallen Tu-154 aircraft of the Ministry of Defense.

The fragment pulled out of the water reaches about five meters in length and five in width.

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

Why, instead of whole bodies, at the crash site of the liner, they found smeared human lungs and fragments of adipose tissue, while the most vulnerable part of the aircraft - the wing - remained almost unscathed? 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 stated that there was no explosion on board. Such amazing haste Antipov explains simply: “Those responsible for sending this aircraft immediately understood the true cause of the crash. And then it was rejected through the media.” Another question, was it an explosion or a terrorist attack? Here Antipov is convinced: "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 passengers to a molecular-fragmentary state."

At one time, because of this rather obvious reason for the collapse, one media outlet was followed by a shout from the Moscow Region and a command to the editor-in-chief to “shut up”.

Too heavy board ... without 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. Only musicians and ... empty cargo compartments remained on board the deceased liner. The board in Adler was refueled for more than 3 hours without taking passengers out of the cabin, although partial refueling according to the 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 a long runway, citing the fact that the plane was “heavy”. This means that Volkov knew what kind of cargo he was loaded with, Yury Antipov argues. It's no secret that the usual loading of things takes no more than an hour.

Total 17 whole bodies

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

According to the SME, not all the bodies of passengers after the disaster turned into genetic remains. Mysteriously, those who were sitting in business class were left dead.
But further down the cabin, says Antipov, all the bodies were simply smeared on the skin. It is terrible to read this list of numbered fragments: adipose tissue, shins, small intestine, bladder, soft tissue ... And the whole point, Yuri Antipov believes, is that “the seats of the passengers, for the identification of which 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, which is most prone to destruction upon impact, remained practically intact, the expert says. Why? Because it experienced a destructive effect only from hitting the water. The huge destructive force that arose inside the fuselage simply did not touch the wing of the aircraft with its "wing of death" ...

Meanwhile, the fuselage of the aircraft at the bottom was simply torn apart by a monstrous force. Moreover, the line of disclosure of the "belly" of the aircraft passed just along the line of the floor, separating the volume of the passenger compartment and cargo compartments.

Antipov says: “It was very clearly shown that the internal structure of the walls in the cargo compartment turned brown and burned from the action of high temperature. Obvious facts have shown that the engines of the aircraft, located in the rear of the aircraft, before immersing them in the water of the Black Sea, sucked, like vacuum cleaners, fine residues from the explosion on board.

Splinters -a stubborn thing
The photo shows that the lining is not just torn off, it is also bent in half near the cabin floor, and the lining 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 outside the lining of the truck has changed its color. But she was in clean sea water ....

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

At the Sochi airport, there is little reminiscent of the crash of the Tu-154 of the Ministry of Defense. It works normally. Passengers arrive and depart. They are escorted and met. Like, everything, as always. But this is a misleading impression. Calm will not return to the city soon, even despite the approaching New Year…

The day before the New Year

In the Black Sea, off the coast in the Adler area, there is still a congestion of ships. And although there was information that the search operation was suspended, all rescue vessels are still in the search square and it seems that none of them is going to leave yet. If the search stops, it is more likely because of bad weather.

In several places in Sochi, on the seashore, impromptu memorials with fresh flowers arose. Sochi residents continue to bring flowers today. There is only a day before the New Year, but there is no smell of festive mood here.
“This is a huge tragedy for the whole country, for the residents of the city,” says an employee of the insurance company, sochinka Irina Volkova. - Many of my friends came these days to honor the memory of those who died on the seashore. I watched on television a press conference of members of the commission on the first results of the investigation into the causes of the disaster. They said that there are several versions, and one of them is that birds got into the engine. Now, with a shudder, I watch the seagulls that circle over the sea. Yes, and I heard that many migratory birds fly south through Adler ...

Let me remind you that the Tu-154 aircraft of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation crashed on the morning of December 25 after taking off from Sochi airport. There were 92 people on board: the military, artists of the Alexandrov Ensemble, nine Russian journalists, as well as Elizabeth Glinka, wonderful Dr. Lisa. All of them flew to Syria to congratulate the military personnel of the Russian Aerospace Forces at the Khmeimim airbase on the upcoming New Year.

It is already known that the entire flight lasted only 70 seconds, the maximum height was about 250 meters, - this was announced the day before by the head of the aviation safety service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Sergey Bainetov.

The wreckage of the plane was found just one and a half kilometers from the seashore. More than 3.6 thousand people worked in the disaster zone. Two flight recorders were raised from the bottom of the sea. Experts are engaged in deciphering information ... There were reports that a third black box was also found, but experts say that there are only two of them.
The first results of the decryption have already been announced, however, it can hardly be said that complete clarity has been introduced into the causes of the tragedy. Instead of fifteen versions, there were seven. In addition to getting birds into the engine of the liner, the commission considers several more: the human factor, wind shear and equipment failure. Until the exact picture of the disaster is clarified, flights of the Tu-154 aircraft of the Ministry of Defense have been suspended. Indirectly, this indicates that the technical malfunction of the aircraft is also considered as the cause of the disaster, despite all the assurances that the liner was in perfect condition ...

At the bottom of the sea

During all these days, 45 sea vessels, as well as boats of the Southern Regional Search and Rescue Squad and the State Inspectorate for Small Boats of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, were involved in the area of ​​the plane crash during all these days. All vessels had rescue divers and equipment for underwater search operations. For 24 hours a day, divers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia make more than 30 descents under water. At the bottom, many fragments of the aircraft and fragments of the fuselage were discovered and raised to the surface. They found documents and personal belongings of the tragically dead passengers of the Tu-154. In total, more than 140 dives were made, thousands of fragments of the aircraft were found.

At the same time, only 20 bodies of the dead were raised from the water. One was buried. The divers who are working say that the dead are mostly small fragments that are scattered over a large area. There are practically no clothes on the fragments, there are personal belongings of passengers, documents, bank cards. All the remains are taken to a special vessel. Divers point to the debris and fragments with special underwater vehicles that scan the bottom. The work is psychologically and physically very difficult, because there is a lot of torn metal and fragments of bodies ...

It is clear that the divers try not to say anything about their dives, and only on condition of anonymity do they admit that the picture at the bottom of the sea is not for the faint of heart ... The dead practically did not have time to feel anything. Everything happened very quickly. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the remains of almost all passengers have now been raised to land. That is why it was decided to end the active phase of the search. The longest procedure will now take a genetic examination. Biological material has already been taken from relatives.

As for the wreckage of the dead aircraft, their laying out will be carried out in the closed territory of the Adler airport.

After 44 years

In these tragic days, Sochi residents have repeatedly recalled previous air crashes in the Sochi region. A similar tragedy happened on October 1, 1972 off the coast of Adler. The similarity even lies in the fact that the plane crash also happened on a day off. Then it was found that at 19:21 Il-18 took off from Adler airport at a magnetic heading of 240 °, and at 19:22 the crew reported to the dispatcher about the take-off. In response, the dispatcher transmitted the conditions for leaving the airport zone - a right turn with a climb of up to 3000 meters to Lazarevskoye. The crew acknowledged receipt of instructions, after which they no longer contacted. At an altitude of 150-250 meters, the pilots began to perform a right turn, when the plane suddenly went into a sharp left turn with a sharp decline, and then crashed into the water and completely collapsed ...
The plane sank at a depth of 500-1000 meters, where the bottom has a difficult terrain with slopes up to 45 degrees. The bottom in this place was covered with a thick layer of silt, which could absorb the wreckage of the Il-18. A major search operation was organized with the participation of the Black Sea Fleet, but despite all efforts, the main wreckage of the aircraft and the flight recorders were never found ...
That year, my father worked on the beach of the village of Kudepsta near Adler and said that after storms, the sea washed ashore the personal belongings of passengers for a long time. How much the sea will remind of the last tragedy is still unknown.

It seems that in general, December 25 is a tragic day for aviation. In 2012, on this day, the An-72 plane of the Border Guard Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan crashed, and by some mythical coincidence, on this day in 2016, the President of Russia met with his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev.
The tragedy of the Tu-154 aircraft of the Ministry of Defense is hard on all Sochi residents. The city does not feel the approach of the holiday. The administration even canceled mass celebrations on the main square on New Year's Eve.
Black sea, black grief.

"According to experts, the bodies of those killed in the Tu-154 crash are most likely inside the fuselage at a depth of about 60 meters," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

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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 found, many of which can be identified. "But we will clarify more detailed information tomorrow morning, when they are ready for transportation to Moscow," the minister was quoted by TASS as saying.

Currently, search operations in the Black Sea are carried out by 32 ships and boats, 80 divers, five helicopters, drones and remote-controlled deep-sea vehicles. “In addition, 1,300 military personnel of 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 the rescue vessels of the Black Sea Fleet with equipment to perform complex diving operations at depths of up to 400 meters will arrive in the search area. Earlier it was reported that nine ships of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were involved in the search operation in the area of ​​the crash.

As the site wrote, on the morning of December 25, information appeared that a Tu-154 aircraft of the Russian Defense Ministry, flying from Sochi to the Khmeimim air base, disappeared from the 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 ship, including artists of the Alexandrov Ensemble and nine journalists.