The death of aircraft A-321, operating flight 9268 from Egyptian Sharm el-Sheikh to Pulkovo with 217 passengers and seven crew members on board, became the largest aviation disaster in the history of Russia and the USSR. In the Soviet Union, the worst air accident occurred in the Uchkuduk area on July 10, 1985. Then, as a result of the crash of a Tu-154 flying from Karshi to Leningrad, 191 passengers and nine crew members were killed.
From the very beginning, the death of flight 9268 of the Kogalymavia company (Metrojet) was accompanied not only by unverified information, but also by outright fabrications. In the first hours after the tragedy, Arab news agencies reported, citing some rescuers operating at the crash site, that the A-321 fell apart into two large parts and groans and requests for help were even heard from the tail. A little later, some representatives of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack on board Russian plane. This statement was immediately picked up by foreign and some domestic media.
On the fateful day, Airbus A-321 took off from the Egyptian airport at 6:51 Moscow time (3.51 GMT), but already at 7.14 (4.14) it did not contact Larnaca airport, and a few seconds earlier the flight disappeared from radar screens.
As a result of the search and rescue operations that began, it was established that the wreckage of the plane, scattered over an area of 16 to 20 square kilometers, had characteristic signs that the Airbus had collapsed in the air. Let us recall that the wreckage of the Malaysian Boeing 777, which was traveling on flight MH-17 and died over the south-east of Ukraine, was spread over an area of more than 50 square kilometers. Already on November 1, the Federal Air Transport Agency and the Interstate Aviation Committee confirmed that the destruction of the A-321 occurred while still in the air.
At this moment, despite the fact that the flight recorders, also known as “black boxes,” were not only found by rescuers, but are already being decrypted, data on the flight parameters of the A-321 Kogalymavia is available only from the FlightRadar24 Internet service.
At 7.12 (4.12) the plane was at an altitude of 10,200 meters (33,500 feet), continuing to climb in order to reach the flight level to Pulkovo Airport. The flight speed was approximately 750 kilometers per hour (just over 400 knots), and the vertical speed was constant. But at exactly 7.13 (4.13) the flight speed dropped to 170 kilometers per hour (just over 20 knots) and, according to calculations by the aviation-safety.net resource (the diagram was obtained as a result of processing FR24 data), the vertical speed became equal to 6000 feet per minute or 30.48 meters per second (a negative reading means the plane is descending). This was no longer a decline or a dive, but actually a fall. At this point, the A-321, having lost 5,000 feet, was at an altitude of about 8,600 meters (28,375 feet).
To summarize, for 22 seconds the plane actually tried to stop its fall and begin to climb, stalling each time. But then its vertical speed increased to such levels that the vehicle reached maximum angles of attack and, accordingly, prohibitive overloads. Next - the fall and destruction of A-321.
Note that the given vertical speed indicators were obtained from processing data from the FlightRadar24 service and in reality could be lower.
There was a report in the media that the plane's crew allegedly turned to air traffic controllers for help. According to some sources, he reported some kind of malfunction, according to others, he requested permission to land. But both Egyptian and Russian authorities deny that such a conversation took place.
In the first hours after the tragedy, evidence emerged that the deceased A-321 had engine problems, which the pilots repeatedly reported to their management. True, on the evening of October 31, representatives of the carrier stated that there were no complaints, the airliner underwent all routine maintenance in a timely manner.
Versions
The Military-Industrial Courier observer was able to communicate with employees and personnel of companies operating similar passenger liners, as well as representatives of Russian government bodies responsible for control in the aviation sector.
Most of the interlocutors unequivocally stated that they would not draw conclusions at least until the transcripts of the flight recorders were announced, but agreed to provide explanations on the already existing facts.
Judging by aviation-safety.net, although there was a sharp decrease in speed, one can hardly talk about problems or failure of one of the IAE V2500 engines. In this case, the plane could not climb several times before falling. According to one of the representatives of the airline - operator of the A-321, this at least indicates that not only power plants they retained traction, but the automatic propulsion system also worked.
We can say that for 22 seconds the autopilot of the airliner tried to fend off something that, according to one of the interlocutors, “was almost impossible to fend off.” But then, instead of stabilizing the airliner, the automation, unable to cope, sent the plane into a sharp climb, which led to prohibitive overloads, reaching critical angles of attack, stalling (possibly a spin) and structural destruction.
The reasons for the impact that led to the death of the Airbus could be either mechanical problems with the elevators or stabilizer, or a failure of the automation itself, also known as the EDCS (electronic remote control system). It is possible that the pilots, faced with a malfunction in the control system, tried to hold the plane on their own, countering the impact.
But a mechanical failure of the rudders or stabilizer could only lead to the plane crashing. Gaining altitude in this case is unrealistic. And even a partial failure of the control system causes the occurrence of so-called self-oscillations, to which the above data on vertical speed are very similar.
True, almost all those interviewed questioned the possibility of a failure of the EMDS, pointing out that this had not happened during the operation of the A-321, and that the Airbus control system itself was very reliable and its most important elements were duplicated.
Industry representatives were also quite skeptical about the possible destruction of the aircraft by anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as the detonation of a device placed on board by terrorists. A missile hit, as shown by the example of the Malaysian Boeing 777, would lead to instant destruction of the structure and the fall of the remains of the aircraft over a sufficiently large area, the same can be said about the use of IEDs.
conclusions
The tragedy of flight 9268 is still awaiting investigation. While the data from the flight recorders has not been published, debris is being collected. The remains of the A-321 are laid out ahead, but now not only experts of varying degrees of awareness, but even various officials are drawing attention to the fact that the crashed airliner outlived four owners and the car is already 18 years old - there is no place for such things in the fleets of Russian carriers, the domestic aviation industry must be raised .
The A-321 is the largest aircraft of the A-320 family, which is considered the record holder for the number of aircraft produced and in operation. "Three hundred and twenty-first" is capable of transporting from 170 to 220 passengers over a distance of up to 5,600 kilometers. At the same time, the Superjet carries from 98 to 108 passengers with a range of just over three thousand kilometers (or 4,500 in the Long Range version). Theoretically, the newest Russian MS-21, the first flight of which has not yet taken place, should have close indicators to the “three hundred and twenty-first” put into operation in 1994. Tu-204/214, also capable of carrying over 200 passengers over a range of six to seven thousand kilometers (depending on the model), is operated by only a few airlines (the most big park SLO "Russia" and "Red Wings" have 12 and 8 cars, respectively).
Alas, one thing is already clear: the tragedy of flight 9268 will be used for all sorts of loud statements for a long time, and the rise of the domestic aviation industry requires painstaking, hard work.
Comments
KP/SS , 23:21, November 2, 2015
The plane can be destroyed by a terrorist attack from outside (to prevent which inspections and security services are used), but this is a stupid, let's say, clumsy job. But if service specialists are involved in a terrorist attack, or rather an authorized specialist does a three-second job - he places a device smaller than a matchbox or a “lighter”, most importantly, to the desired unit, then a disaster will occur as technical problem. For example, as a version: - the use of a micro explosive device with an SMS receiver, the size and appearance of a lighter. The technician opened the hatch, another, the third on the engine, this is his technological responsibility, look at the oil level there, there -on condition and no leakage, etc. All this happens quite quickly and in the usual way (there is no flight mechanic or flight engineer in the crew). Let’s say you opened an extra hatch on the engine pylon and stuck a micro device on the fire hydrant. During the flight, a micro explosion occurred in the engine pylon: the fuel wire to the engine is destroyed, the fuel gushes and burns ( fire protection system not in that area), the hydraulic system tubes are destroyed and the control of the aircraft fails. Before the plane crashes, this place will all burn out and melt (above the engine), no traces of a terrorist attack will be found there (especially since there will be destruction from the impact with the ground and, again, a fire - after all, the fuel in the wing will not go anywhere). Yes, what can I say: -1000 options for stowing a modern aircraft and it will look like a technical malfunction. Imagine - a joystick controls a computer, there is a program in it, the computer receives parameters from gyroscopes, aneroid sensors and aircraft systems. All this, although duplicated 2 or 3 times, ends in the cockpit area. Next, control signals arrive via optical fiber (via laser) (similar to routers) electronic devices on power steering and steering surfaces. Any failure (lightning strike, power outage, tiny explosion or thermite fire, or exposure to corrosive acid) at the desired point of interweaving of the internal wiring in the aircraft - and the aircraft will lose control. It’s not just that there is nothing to control it directly (through the steering wheel and mechanical connection, through hydraulic boosters on the surface) as a last chance - it simply doesn’t exist. Airplanes are now not built to be stable (the stabilizer must press down and take away part of the wing's lift), but, on the contrary, to be unstable (to obtain the greatest weight return, i.e., a greater commercial load). Loss of controllability leads to a sharp maneuver with prohibitive overload and destruction (the Airbus does not have the same safety margin as a fighter), so they will not have time to shout into the air. I expressed the direction, and the “bookmark” can be done a week or a couple of months earlier (with the same heavy technical regulations, in the country where it is produced).
Andrey , 01:30, November 3, 2015
Yes, they blew it up, sure enough, the tail flew off the fuselage 8 km, what kind of damage could there be for the tail to be torn off. . And no one will tell us the whole truth so as not to sow panic. They'll say there's a technical problem and voila, they've eaten everything.
Vlad391 , 02:45, November 3, 2015
In principle, anything can be allowed, but it looks too much like extreme conspiracy theory, and most importantly, why all this? On the other hand, considerations about the instability of the aircraft are very serious, and besides, the machine is old and has already broken down. So overload and destruction suggest themselves. We need to produce our own planes and fly them. And at least buy foreign ones new ones, not broken old ones. Transaero with its new cars went bankrupt, but don’t understand who is killing our people for their profits. What loud statements here.
Andrey , 10:16, November 3, 2015
The rise of the domestic aviation industry in the next 20 years, I’m afraid, is not possible. Judging by the level of education of “people with diplomas” who come to science and production after “universities”, they do not even qualify for the Soviet eight-year school. It is necessary to restore destroyed education from primary school. They will become specialists in twenty-five years (if by that time there are still old personnel left from whom it will be possible to learn from experience). I judge by the young engineers and designers who come to work at the Almaz-Antey air defense concern after graduating from universities.
Sergey , 15:57, November 3, 2015
Terrorist attacks are done to intimidate and therefore are public. hiding a terrorist attack behind a malfunction is complete nonsense
Guest , 16:14, November 3, 2015
unstable aerodynamic designs are used on military aircraft, in particular on fighters, to increase maneuverability; airliners, weight return - it has nothing to do with it, this airbus has a normal aerodynamic design. And as for the EDSU - yes, I agree, wiring control by wire is cool, modern, effective, but - in the event of an emergency situation, a computer failure in the control system - this is the end
Vlad391 , 19:41, November 3, 2015
Guest, you see, Airbus is clearly not a fighter, but what the normal aerodynamic design means is not clear. Our Ilas are capable of gliding when all engines fail; I don’t know what about Boeings; aerodynamically they have a lot in common with the Ilas. Airbus is less stable, and taking into account the dependence on avionics and automation, so beloved by Europeans, we get the very thing that you first refute. By the way, statistics show that the ability of our pilots to master the controls of Airbus perfectly leaves much to be desired. Finally, I note that wounds have already been discovered on the corpses of passengers as if from an explosion, and the satellite of our American “colleagues” detected a thermal flash at the moment of the destruction of the board. So there are fewer and fewer questions left.
Guest , 00:44, November 4, 2015
For Vlad391, don’t you notice that you’re writing nonsense?! How can a satellite see the explosion of several tens of grams of explosives?! Or do you think there was an IED weighing a ton? And LifeNews wrote about the explosion and the sauce with a link to a certain anonymous person and quickly trimmed the article. Here and without this news for last 24 hours what kind of shit they threw out. Does the yellow media drag the grain into your mouth?
A motley crowd of tourists, a vibrant underwater world that attracts divers from all over the world - all this attracts travelers. Russians were eager to go there as if they were going to a second dacha: at least a week to rest from work and bask in the sun. Whole families flew until the plane crash in Egypt on October 31, 2015 forced the entire country to shudder.
Tragic accident
A tourist group from the Brisco company was returning on a charter flight from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg. Despite the early morning (departure at 5.50 local time), the passengers were in excellent spirits. They posted pictures of their successful vacation on social networks. It was Saturday, and on Monday many had to plunge into work; some had work, others had to study.
The Airbus A321-231 EI-ETJ airliner, which arrived from Samara, took 217 passengers on board. They and seven crew members were to be in Northern capital, where many relatives and friends were waiting at the airport. Having reached a given altitude of 9400 meters in 23 minutes, at a speed of 520 km/h the aircraft suddenly disappeared from the radar. At 6.15 (7.15 Moscow) the plane crashed in the Sinai Peninsula near El-Arish airport - the hottest spot in Egypt, where government troops were confronted by Al-Qaeda Islamists.
Versions of the tragedy
Those meeting flight 9268 at Pulkovo Airport anxiously watched the board, which displayed the information: “Arrival delayed.” And by evening, the whole country knew that the wreckage of the aircraft that had disappeared from radar had been discovered by the Egyptian authorities. Scattered over a length of 13 kilometers, with the tail section torn off, they were shown on television, which gave rise to many versions of experts about possible reasons disasters. Three were considered the most reliable:
- Technical problems associated either with engine failure or metal fatigue. In the tail section, traces of skin repairs were found after the aircraft touched the asphalt with its tail while landing at Cairo airport in 2001. The resulting microcrack could cause the destruction of the aircraft as it climbed.
- The plane crash in Egypt was caused by the crew's mistakes.
- Terrorist act.
The IAC commission, headed by Egyptian representative Ayman al-Mukkadam, began working at the site of the tragedy. It included representatives of Russia, France, Germany, the USA and Ireland. After studying the evidence and decoding, the first two versions were found unfounded.
Aircraft
The A321 crash over the Sinai Peninsula was the worst in Egyptian history and modern Russia. The airbus belonged to the Kogalymavia company, which underwent a thorough inspection. It was found that after the 2001 emergency, the aircraft was repaired in France at the manufacturer's plant, after which all the necessary tests were carried out. Over 18 years of operation, the airliner flew less than 50% of its service life (57,428 hours) and was in good condition. This is evidenced by weekly technical checks, the last of which was carried out on October 26, 2015. The flight recorders did not detect any system malfunction. Until the 23rd minute, the flight proceeded quite normally.
Crew
Forty-eight-year-old crew commander Valery Nemov is a graduate of SVAAULSH (Stavropol Military School). He is one of the few who, in the difficult 90s, retrained to fly on Airbuses since 2008, having 12 thousand flight hours, which testifies to his enormous experience. The co-pilot also came from military aviation, being a veteran of the Chechen campaign. After retiring, Sergei Trukhachev retrained on the A321, having undergone training in the Czech Republic. I flew them for more than 2 years. The total flight time was 6 thousand hours. Both pilots were in good standing with their airline. Nemov was even called back from vacation prematurely to be sent to the sad famous flight 9268.
Official version
Two weeks after the tragedy, the version of the terrorist attack was officially voiced by the head of the FSB during a meeting with the President of the Russian Federation. To support his words, he provided the following evidence:
- American satellites recorded a thermal flash over Sinai during the disaster, which indicates an explosion occurred on board the plane.
- The fuselage fragment has a hole with a diameter of about one meter. Its edges are curved outward. This indicates that the source of the explosion was inside.
- When decoding the recorder recording the negotiations, before the recording is interrupted, extraneous noise is heard, the nature of which can be attributed to a blast wave.
- The plane crash in Egypt caused great public outcry. After a while, they not only admitted responsibility for the terrorist attack, but also posted a photo of an improvised explosive device (IED) on the pages of Dabig magazine.
- Some of the victims had injuries indicating death from the consequences of the explosion (burns, tissue ruptures).
- Traces of explosives - TNT molecules - were found in fragments of shrapnel, luggage and on the bodies of the victims.
The power of the explosion was estimated at 1 kilogram. The estimated location of the IED is the tail of the aircraft. For the blast wave moved forward, but the fracture of the fuselage prevented its further advancement.
Plane crash in Egypt: who is to blame?
After the appearance Russian version It became known that 17 employees were detained at the Egyptian airport. The main question was one: “How did the IED get on board the airliner?” The FSB began studying the biographies of 34 passengers (11 men and 23 women) who had TNT molecules on their bodies. But official Egypt soon stated that there was no evidence for a clear statement about a terrorist attack on board the plane. None of the employees were actually arrested. Russian authorities have announced a $50 million reward for any information about the terrorists.
Only in February 2016 did the Egyptian President officially acknowledge the terrorist attack. It was discovered that the bomb was made from plasticite, which is used to create military projectiles. It is powered by a clock mechanism. The plane crash in Egypt on October 31, 2015 showed that the airport security system does not meet international standards. The IED could have gotten on board with the company supplying the products through employees with access to the runway, as well as through hand luggage during baggage check. The latest data is such that it was in the cabin in the immediate vicinity of place 31A. All these facts led to a ban on the sale of holiday tours in Egypt.
Flight passengers
EI-ETJ - the last digits of the Airbus number. According to them, the aviators called the board “Juliet” among themselves, affectionately “Dzhulka”. On that tragic morning, she broke up three aviation marriages and killed a young steward who replaced a colleague who had quit due to a bad dream. It also took the lives of 217 passengers, 25 of whom were children. Those killed in a plane crash in Egypt are entire families, dozens of destroyed love stories, babies who will never grow up. Ten-month-old Darina Gromova was on this flight with her parents. Her mother posted her photo on social network before departure. A girl stands at the airport facing runway, and below the signature: “Main Passenger.” This picture has become a symbol tragic flight, from which no one managed to return.
Almost all passengers are Russians, 4 people are citizens of Ukraine, 1 is from Belarus. The majority are residents of St. Petersburg, although there are also representatives of other regions: Pskov, Novgorod, Ulyanovsk. Those killed in the plane crash in Egypt are people of various professions. Even while relatives were busy identifying the bodies, caring people were forming a collective portrait of the passengers, collecting information about them bit by bit. A wonderful gallery was created, where there were many good words about everyone.
Almost a year later
On July 31, Moscow and St. Petersburg held a rally in memory of those killed over the Sinai. Nine months passed: many relatives received compensation, identified and buried their loved ones, but the pain did not subside. On August 5, 2016, a message was received that forty-five militants led by Abu Dua al-Ansari, through whose fault the plane crash occurred in Egypt, were killed during a military operation near El-Arish. I really want to believe that something like this will never happen again!
PANIC ON BOARD
“The plane almost crashed” - with this headline, the news about the incident with the North Wind airliner was published in several media outlets. Airbus A321 flew from Heraklion (Crete) to St. Petersburg on May 3, flight N41606. He was supposed to arrive in Pulkovo at 11:35.
One of the passengers, political scientist Dmitry Gavra, published a post on his social network in which he complained that the liner had sharply lost altitude and returned to the island. According to him, the plane “fell three kilometers.” The crew did not tell the passengers that the plane had turned around. People did not know that the plane was landing.
When the plane began to sharply lose altitude, the automation said in a metallic voice “prepare for splashdown.” We were flying over the sea then. That is, this is not a crew, but an automatic machine. It was audible because I was sitting quite close,” Dmitry Gavra told the Komsomolskaya Pravda - St. Petersburg correspondent.
As a source told KP, such a voice command is neither in Russian nor in English language No. Pilots don't use that kind of slang either.
Then the pilot managed to level the plane, and we returned and landed at a low altitude. We were stopped somewhere on the outskirts of the airport, there was an ambulance, police and technical services. And then I heard that the conversations were in a raised voice,” says the passenger.
At Heraklion airport, tourists waited for 2.5 hours. They were given water and sandwiches. The airline representative who came out to the people did not speak Russian. So one of the passengers had to help with the translation. According to Dmitry Gavra, no one said what technical problems there were with the plane. They reported that another plane would fly to St. Petersburg.
There were 111 people flying on board the A321, 8 of them were children. The tourists returned home from Crete on a charter flight of Icarus Airlines. The plane landed in Pulkovo at 18:15.
DID THE PLANE CRASH?
Northern Wind confirmed that there were technical problems with the plane. Which ones exactly are not specified. A few hours after the emergency, we got through to the assistant to the airline’s chief director.
We don't have any information. that there is something wrong with the plane. “Everything is fine with us,” Anton Maslakov commented to the KP in St. Petersburg correspondent.
We traced the plane's path on the Flyradar24 website, through which you can watch the iron birds online.
Judging by the charts, the North Wind airbus took off from the ground at 06:22 local time. Already at 06:36 it reached its maximum altitude - 7.7 kilometers. And then he began to descend: in the next minute he dropped one kilometer, then in seven minutes another three. The plane returned to the airport at an altitude of three kilometers. The total travel time is 40 minutes. Already at 07:02 the plane touched the ground. The airliner drew a figure eight in the sky.
COMPETENTLY
We talked about the incident with the plane with Honored Pilot of Russia, test pilot Vadim BAZYKIN.
- Vadim Valerievich, is this a sharp decline?
Yes, this is a pretty sharp decline. But we have such a concept among extreme sports enthusiasts, “threshold of death” - this is 8800 meters. If he didn’t score 8, then nothing fatal happened. Scary - it could be, but not fatal.
- What could possibly have happened?
It's impossible to guess. It could have been anything. A modern aircraft has about 130 computers. You will not take off until some kind of display, red or yellow, has gone out.
During takeoff, anything can happen - a minor failure or glitch. The pilot knows what to do when the “failure” command is displayed.
In general, there are not many situations when you need to return to the departure airfield. Even when one engine fails, the flight must be completed. If you decided to return, then it was according to instructions.
- Should flight attendants inform passengers about problems on the plane?
Everything works for flight safety. If the crew was struggling, they might not tell the flight attendants at all, so they wouldn't know. But if they knew, then, of course, they should have informed the passengers.
- Some passengers suggested that there could be depressurization of the cabin.
When depressurization occurs, sensors are triggered and oxygen masks fall out. It's just like airbags in a car. If this does not happen, then there was no depressurization.
- Why is a sharp decline dangerous to health?
Every airplane has a pressure switch. Passengers are accustomed to heights from the ground. When the plane is just taking off before takeoff, the pressure inside is as if it is already at an altitude of one and a half kilometers. When the plane flies at 10 kilometers, passengers in the cabin feel as if they are flying at an altitude of three. If the plane suddenly loses altitude, it automatically maintains pressure. It might cause your ears to get clogged, but it’s unlikely to be something painful or serious.
- One of the passengers claims that he heard a command from the on-board computer. Is this possible?
Passengers can only hear what the flight attendants say. All voice commands are given to the crew inside the cabin, so nothing can be heard. This is already a wild fantasy playing out.
Airbus A321 flight 9268 of Kogalymavia Airlines (Metrojet brand) crashed and disappeared from radar on the morning of Saturday, October 31. There were 224 people on board the plane - passengers, children, 7 crew members, all of them were Russians. The airliner was operating a “tourist” flight between Sharm El-Sheikh and St. Petersburg.
The latest information about the disaster can also be read on Twitter using the hashtag #KogalymAvia And #7k9268 .
Egyptian authorities officially confirmed the plane crash and began searching for the wreckage with army forces, while Turkish aviation authorities reported that the airliner had entered their air space. At the same time, the media previously stated that the airliner continued its flight, but the official press of Cairo states that the plane crash did occur, and the wreckage of the airliner is in Sinai.
The most eloquent illustration is the Flightradar system, which allows you to track any civilian aircraft in the world that have special transponders. According to Flightradar it is seen that the plane "descended at approximately 6,000 feet per minute (110 km/h) before the signal was lost" 23 minutes after takeoff.
The press also reports that the airliner’s crew reported malfunctions; some journalists say that the PIC and co-pilot requested emergency landing- however, this information has not yet been confirmed.
Note that many pilots and aviation experts, speaking about plane crashes, they reminded that an engine failure (without destroying the engine or the plane) does not lead to the crash of airliners - they can glide even with all engines turned off to the nearest airfield (this has also happened in the history of aviation - the media also recall the emergency landing of the Tu-204, and "Gimli glider").
“The plane crashed in a closed military zone. Counter-terrorism operations are being carried out there,” reports VGTRK.
A state of emergency was introduced in northern Sinai in Egypt in connection with the crash of a Russian plane; the Prime Minister of Egypt, rescuers and military personnel went to the crash site.
Reuters reports that "the screams of surviving passengers may be heard at the crash site."
“The CREW OF THE CRASHED RUSSIAN AIRLINER COMPLAINED ABOUT ENGINE PROBLEMS SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK,” news agencies report.
"Egyptian emergency services have begun removing the bodies of those killed in the Russian A-321 crash on Sinai Peninsula",- reports AFP. The disaster site is cordoned off and protected from looters.
"The bodies of five children have been found; the Russian plane that crashed in Sinai has broken into two parts," AFP said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his deepest condolences to the relatives of those killed in the Kogalymavia plane crash, ordering rescuers to be sent to the scene of the tragedy.
“The total flight time of the 48-year-old commander of the plane that crashed in Egypt was 3,682 hours. Of these, Valery Nemov flew 1,100 hours as an aircraft commander,” Lifenews.ru said.
“As it became known, before flying on an A-321 type aircraft, Valery Nemov flew a TU-154. The pilot was retrained at the AmurAir training center located in Turkey,” the press adds, calling the PIC a professional pilot.
It became known that at least one of the passengers on the flight posted a photo of the plane and her husband and daughter before takeoff, writing " we're flying home ".
“According to the Egyptian side, the plane was trying to land at El-Arish airfield,” the Russian Embassy reported.
“As it became known, about a hundred bodies of passengers were pulled out from under the wreckage of a Russian airliner that crashed 100 kilometers from El-Arish in the north of the Sinai Peninsula,” reports Egypt Independet.
"Eyewitnesses say that castaway in Egypt, the plane was burning in the air,” Kommersant FM reported.
The media reported that rescuers found one of the flight recorders - black boxes - at the scene of the tragedy.
President Vladimir Putin declared mourning on November 1 in connection with the crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt.
The bodies of all 17 children were found at the A-321 crash site in Egypt. RIA Novosti reports with reference to a civil aviation representative.
As Gazeta.Ru found out, travel company Brisco, whose clients were flying on the crashed plane, and Kogalymavia airline are owned by the same people.
“Either a fire in the central/tail section, or an engine fire spreading throughout the entire nacelle with subsequent thermal destruction of the wing,” they write on a professional pilot forum.
The local Bedouin tribe Al Tayaha saw a Russian Kogalymavia airliner crash on the Sinai Peninsula. According to the nomads, the Airbus A321 burst into flames in the air, in particular, they saw one of the plane’s engines burning.
"Many died in seats wearing seat belts," Egyptian intelligence official/Reuters
The office of the owner of the Kogalymavia airline on Stoleshnikov Lane in Moscow is being searched. Law enforcement officers are seizing documents and electronic media from the office, media reports.
Egyptian aviation authorities do not rule out that the plane crash Russian airline“Kogalymavia” in Egypt occurred due to a terrorist attack, CBS Extra reports. “This version is unlikely, since terrorists in the region do not have appropriate weapons - anti-aircraft missile systems, because the plane was at an altitude of more than 6 thousand meters,” experts say.
“A couple of months ago, rockets were fired at Israeli territory from Sinai. In Syria and Libya, Islamists captured dozens of C125 and C200 complexes. In Yemen, firefights are taking place using Point U, and the Saudis have deployed Patriots along the entire border,” they write on social networks.
"According to Egyptian Air Accident Investigation Committee spokesman Ayman al-Mugadem, the pilot warned ground controllers that there was an emergency on the plane." technical problem“and he needs to land as soon as possible,” Izvestia reports.
Egyptian authorities said no one survived the Russian plane crash, Reuters reported.
Before taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, the crashed plane underwent the necessary technical checks and no faults were identified, said the head of the Egyptian airport company Adel Mahgoub. “A technical inspection of the aircraft was carried out and its airworthiness was confirmed,” he emphasized.
