PANIC ON BOARD
“The plane almost crashed” - with this headline, the news about the incident with the airliner of the “North Wind” airline went through several media outlets. Airbus A321 flew from Heraklion (Crete) to St. Petersburg on May 3, flight N41606. He was supposed to arrive at 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 dramatically 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 liner was going to land.
When the plane began to sharply lose altitude, the automatics in a metallic voice said "prepare for splashdown." We then flew over the sea. That is, it is not a crew, but an assault rifle. It was heard because I was sitting close enough, - Dmitry Gavra told the correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda - Petersburg.
According to a source of "KP", such a voice command is neither in Russian nor in English language no. Pilots don't use that slang either.
Then the pilot managed to level the plane, and we returned at a low altitude and landed. 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 the Heraklion airport, tourists waited 2.5 hours. They were given water and sandwiches. The airline representative who went 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 that there were technical problems with the plane. It was reported that another liner would fly to St. Petersburg.
111 people flew on board the A321, 8 of them were children. Tourists have returned home from Crete charter flight airlines "Ikar". The plane landed at Pulkovo at 18:15.
DID THE PLANE FALL?
The "North Wind" confirmed that there were technical problems with the plane. Which ones are not specified. A few hours after the emergency, we phoned the assistant to the chief director of the airline.
We have no information. that something is wrong with the plane. Everything is good with us, - Anton Maslakov commented to the KP in Petersburg correspondent.
We traced the plane's path on the Flyradar24 website, through which you can watch the iron birds online.
According to the charts, the Airbus “ North Wind"Got off the ground at 06:22 local time. Already at 06:36 it reached its maximum height - 7.7 kilometers. And then he began to descend: in the next minute he dropped one kilometer, then in seven minutes by three more. The liner returned to the airport at a three-kilometer altitude. The total travel time is 40 minutes. Already at 07:02 the plane touched the ground. In the sky, the liner drew an "eight".
COMPETENTLY
We talked about the plane accident 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 notion among extreme people “the threshold of death” - it is 8800 meters. If he didn't get 8, then there was nothing fatal. Terrible - it could, but not fatal.
- What could have happened at all?
It is impossible to guess. It could have been anything. A modern plane is about 130 computers. You will not take off until some kind of board, red or yellow, has gone out.
During takeoff, anything can be - a minor failure or a glitch. The pilot knows what to do when the command "failure" is displayed.
In general, there are not many situations when it is necessary to return to the airfield of departure. Even when one engine fails, the flight must be completed. If you decided to return, then it was according to the instructions.
- Should flight attendants inform passengers about problems on the plane?
Everything works for the safety of the flight. If the crew was struggling, he might not have informed the flight attendants at all, so they didn't know. But if they knew, then, of course, they should have informed the passengers.
- Some passengers suggested that there could be a depressurization of the cabin.
When depressurization occurs, sensors are triggered and masks with oxygen fall out. It's just like the airbags in the car. If this did not happen, then there was no depressurization.
- Why is a sharp decline dangerous for health?
In any aircraft there is a pressure switch. Passengers are taught height from the ground. When the plane just takes off before takeoff, the pressure is inside, as if it is already at an altitude of one and a half kilometers. When the plane flies 10 kilometers, the passengers in the cabin feel that they are flying at an altitude of three. If the plane suddenly loses altitude, it automatically maintains pressure. Ears can be blocked, but something painful and serious is unlikely.
- One of the passengers claims to have heard the command of the on-board computer. Is it possible?
Passengers can only hear what the flight attendants are saying. All voice commands are given to the crew inside the cockpit, so it is impossible to hear anything. This is already a violent fantasy played out.
Published on 10/26/18 4:37 PMCrash Air plane Niugini happened at the end of September.
An Australian dive helped rescue passengers from a plane crash in Micronesia before rescue divers arrived to search for the sinking plane. Air Niugini Flight 73 was unable to gain sufficient altitude in international airport Chuuk on the island of Veno. The plane climbed 145 meters and crashed into the lagoon on 28 September.
Former diver Adam Milburn, who lives in Micronesia (near Australia), also found himself aboard the falling plane during an emergency landing on the water. Man immediately intcbatch rushed to the aid of the victims immediately after landing in the lagoon. The horrifying footage shocked users around the world, showing US Navy rescuers entering a Boeing 737 after Mr. Milburn had already helped evacuate nearly all passengers.
A fisherman from Micronesian Ostrava Wenjo immediately rushed to the rescue when the plane finally landed on the water near the coast. One by one, Milburn bravely pulled passengers out of the sinking ship, while Air Niugini's crew panicked and could not help their passengers. The brave man also returned to the plane with the US Navy sailors to check on the survivors and help with the search for the missing.
Rescuers swam the entire length of the plane in search of possible casualties until the water in the cabin reached dangerous flooding levels.
"Like everyone else, I was confused: how did we get here? What's going on? What are we doing and should we be doing right now on the plane floating on the water?" - Milburn told ABC TV channel.
The man also claimed that after the crash, the crew urged passengers to remain in their seats in a sitting position, no further instructions were received on the sinking board. As soon as the man realized that he should rely only on himself, he grabbed his life vest and started helping people. Milburn also wondered if he had a chance to help the Indonesian who died in the incident (the only passenger killed on board).
I literally touched everyone who came out of the emergency door on the left wing, or helped them to get into the liferaft, or physically transferred them, the most important thing for me was that no one fell out of the wing and drowned, I was absolutely sure that what am I doing. "
US Navy rescuers helped evacuate passengers ashore, and many suffered head and neck injuries after being hit by a fall. Milburn told the media that the crew did not help or even check the names of the passengers.
American journalist Bill James was also on board the sunken plane, later it was he who called Milburn's actions heroic.
"I know Adam, and I guess that he will be the last person who will call himself something like a hero, but given that the plane was in the water, and people in a critical situation, I would call his actions heroic," the reporter said. ...
Air Niugini, the national airline of Papua New Guinea, initially announced that all 35 passengers and 12 crew members had been safely evacuated. However, it later emerged that one passenger had died. According to the Micronesian government, Eko Kahyanto Singga's body was recovered from a sunken plane by US Navy divers.
The Daily Mail contacted Air Niugini for comment.
Officials investigating the cause of the crash explained that the plane landed in the ocean after flying over a Micronesian runway. The government said 9 people were injured in the crash, 4 of which were this moment are in critical condition.
It is worth noting that on the island near the crash site, people also rushed to the rescue, jumping into fishing boats and heading towards the sinking plane. Later with the help of US Navy rescuers locals used their boats to transport people from the plane to the shore.
The exact cause of the accident is being investigated. Air Niugini says the reduced visibility due to heavy rain caused the pilot to miss the runway.
Chuuk State (also known as Truk) is one of the 4 states Federated States Micronesia, with 50,000 inhabitants and 46 square miles. The plane began to descend near the island of Veno in Chuuk Bay, where most of the population lives.
The plane Airbus A321 of flight 9268 of the airline "Kogalymavia" (Metrojet brand) crashed, disappearing from radar on the morning of Saturday, 31 October. There were 224 people on board - passengers, children, 7 crew members, all of them were Russians. The liner performed a "tourist" flight between Sharm El Sheikh and St. Petersburg.
The latest data on the disaster can also be read on Twitter using the hashtag #KogalymAvia and # 7k9268 .
The Egyptian authorities officially confirmed the plane crash and began to search for the wreckage by the army, while the Turkish aviation authorities announced the entry of the liner into their air space... At the same time, the media previously stated that the liner continued its flight, but the official press of Cairo declares that the plane crash did take place, the wreckage of the liner is in Sinai.
The most eloquent is the illustration of the Flightradar system, which allows you to track any civilian aircraft in the world on which special transponders are located. According to Flightradar it is seen that the plane was "descending 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 crew of the liner reported malfunctions, some journalists say that the PIC and the co-pilot requested an emergency landing - but this information has not yet been confirmed.
Note that many pilots and aviation experts, speaking of plane crashes, recalled that engine failure (without destroying the engine or aircraft) does not lead to the fall of the airliners - they can even glide with all engines turned off to the nearest airfield (this has also happened in the history of aviation - media remember the emergency landing of the Tu-204, and the "Gimli's glider").
"The plane crashed in a closed military zone. Counter-terrorist operations are being carried out there," the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company reported.
Emergency mode introduced in northern Sinai in Egypt in connection with the crash Russian aircraft, the prime minister of Egypt, rescuers and the military went to the crash site.
Reuters reports that the screams of the surviving passengers may be heard at the crash site.
"THE CREW OF THE CROWN RUSSIAN AIRLINER SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK COMPLAINED ABOUT ENGINE PROBLEMS," news agencies report.
"Egyptian emergency services began removing the bodies of those killed in the crash of the Russian A-321 on the Sinai Peninsula, "- informs AFP. The crash site is cordoned off and guarded from marauders.
"Found the bodies of five children, the Russian plane that fell in Sinai fell apart in two," AFP said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his deepest condolences to the relatives of those killed in the Kogalymavia plane crash, ordering to send rescuers to the scene of the tragedy.
"The total flight time of the 48-year-old commander of the plane that crashed in Egypt was 3682 hours. Of these, as the commander of the aircraft, Valery Nemov flew 1100 hours," Lifenews.ru said.
"As it became known, before flying on an A-321 aircraft, Valery Nemov was flying 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 are flying home ".
"According to the Egyptian side, the plane tried to land at the El-Arish airfield," the Russian embassy said.
"As it became known, from under the wreckage of a Russian liner that crashed 100 kilometers from El-Arish in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, they pulled out about a hundred bodies of passengers," Egypt Independet reports.
"Eyewitnesses say that wrecked in Egypt, the plane was burning in the air, "- said Kommersant FM.
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 liner in Egypt,
The bodies of all 17 children were found at the crash site of the A-321 in Egypt. RIA Novosti reports with reference to a civil aviation representative.
As Gazeta.Ru found out, travel company Brisco, whose clients flew on the crashed plane, and Kogalymavia are owned by the same persons.
"Either a fire in the central / tail section, or an engine fire with its spread throughout the nacelle with the subsequent thermal destruction of the wing," they write on the professional forum of pilots.
The local tribe of Bedouin "Al Tayakha" saw how the Russian airliner of the airline "Kogalymavia" crashed in the Sinai Peninsula. According to the nomads, the Airbus A321 flared up in the air, in particular, they saw one of the aircraft's engines burning.
"Many died while wearing seat belts," Egyptian intelligence official / Reuters
Searches are underway in the office of the owner of the Kogalymavia airline in Stoleshnikov Lane in Moscow. Law enforcement officers seize documents and electronic media from the office, according to media reports.
The aviation authorities of Egypt do not exclude that the accident with the airliner Russian airline"Kogalymavia" in Egypt occurred due to a terrorist attack, reports CBS Extra. "This version is unlikely, since the terrorists in the region do not have the appropriate weapons - anti-aircraft missile systems, because the plane was at an altitude of more than 6 thousand meters," experts say.
"From Sinai, a couple of months ago, they fired rockets at the territory of Israel. In Syria and Libya, the Islamists seized dozens of C125 and C200 complexes. In Yemen, shootouts are taking place with the use of U-Points, and the Saudis have deployed Patriots along the entire border," they write in social networks.
"According to the representative of the Egyptian Committee for the Investigation of Aviation Incidents Ayman al-Mugadem, the pilot warned ground controllers that there was a" technical problem "on the plane and he needed to land as soon as possible," Izvestia reports.
Egyptian authorities said no one survived the Russian plane crash, Reuters reported.
Before leaving Sharm el-Sheikh, the crashed plane passed the necessary technical check and no malfunctions were identified, said the head of the Egyptian airport companies Adel Mahgub. "A technical inspection of the aircraft was carried out and its airworthiness was confirmed," he stressed.
A motley crowd of tourists, a vibrant underwater world that attracts divers from all over the world - all this attracts travelers. The Russians were eager to go there, as to the second dacha: at least a week to rest from work and fry in the sun. Whole families flew until the plane crash in Egypt on October 31, 2015 forced the whole country to shudder.
Tragic incident
The tourist group of the Brisco company was returning by a charter flight from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg. Despite the early morning (departure at 5.50 local time), passengers were in excellent spirits. They posted pictures of the successful holiday on social networks. It was Saturday, and on Monday many had to plunge into someone else's work, someone else's studies.
The airliner Airbus A321-231 EI-ETJ, which arrived from Samara, took on board 217 passengers. They and the seven crew members were to be in Northern capital, where relatives and friends were waiting for many at the airport. After gaining a predetermined altitude of 9400 meters in 23 minutes, at a speed of 520 km / h, the aircraft suddenly disappeared from the radar. At 6.15 am (7.15 am Moscow), the plane crashed in the Sinai Peninsula near El Arish airport, the hottest spot in Egypt, where the government forces were opposed by the Islamists of Al-Qaeda.
Versions of the tragedy
Those who met flight 9268 at Pulkovo airport anxiously watched the board on which the information was displayed: “Arrival is delayed”. And by evening, the whole country already knew that the wreckage of the aircraft that had disappeared from the radar had been found by the Egyptian authorities. Scattered over a length of 13 kilometers, with a detached tail section, they were shown on television, which caused many versions of experts about possible reasons disaster. Three were considered the most reliable:
- Technical problems associated with either engine failure or metal fatigue. In the tail section, traces of skin repair were found after an aircraft hit the asphalt with its tail in 2001 when landing at Cairo airport. The resulting microcrack could cause the destruction of the aircraft with the climb.
- The plane crash in Egypt is a crew error.
- Terrorist act.
At the scene of the tragedy, a commission of the IAC, headed by the representative of Egypt, Ayman al-Mukkadam, began to work. It includes representatives from Russia, France, Germany, USA and Ireland. After examining the evidence and decoding, the first two versions were found to be invalid.
Aircraft
The A321 disaster over the Sinai Peninsula was the largest in the history of Egypt and modern Russia. The airbus belonged to the Kogalymavia company, which was thoroughly checked. It was found that after the 2001 emergency, the aircraft was repaired in France at the manufacturing plant, after which all the necessary tests were carried out. For 18 years of operation, the liner flew less than 50% of its resource (57428 hours) and was in good condition. This is evidenced by weekly technical checks, the last of which was carried out on 10/26/2015. The flight recorders did not detect any malfunction of the systems. Until the 23rd minute, the flight was quite normal.
Crew
The 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 on "Airbuses" flew since 2008, having 12 thousand flight hours, which testifies to his colossal experience. The co-pilot also came from military aviation being a veteran of the Chechen campaign. After retirement, Sergei Trukhachev retrained on the A321, having completed training in the Czech Republic. I flew them for over 2 years. The total flight time was 6 thousand hours. Both pilots were in good standing with their airline. Nemov was even summoned prematurely from vacation to be sent to the infamous flight 9268.
Official version
Two weeks after the tragedy, the version of the terrorist attack was officially announced by the head of the FSB during a meeting with the President of the Russian Federation. In support of his words, he cited the following evidence:
- American satellites recorded a thermal flash over Sinai during the disaster, which indicates an explosion on board the aircraft.
- The fuselage fragment has a hole about one meter in diameter. Its edges are curved outward. This indicates that the source of the explosion was inside.
- When decoding the recorder recording the negotiations, before interrupting the recording, extraneous noise is heard, the nature of which can be attributed to a blast wave.
- The plane crash in Egypt caused a 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 were found to have traumas indicating death from the consequences of the explosion (burns, tissue ruptures).
- Traces of explosives - TNT molecules - were found in the fragments of the fragments, luggage and on the bodies of the victims.
The power of the explosion was estimated at 1 kilogram. The presumptive location of the IED is the tail of the aircraft. For the blast wave was moving forward, but the rupture of the fuselage prevented its further advance.
Plane crash in Egypt: who is to blame?
After the appearance of the 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 liner?" The FSB began to study the biographies of 34 passengers (11 men and 23 women), whose bodies were covered with TNT molecules. But official Egypt soon said that there was no evidence for an unequivocal statement about the terrorist attack on board the plane. None of the employees were actually arrested. The Russian authorities have announced a $ 50 million reward for any information about terrorists.
Only in February 2016 did the Egyptian President officially acknowledge the terrorist attack. It was revealed that the bomb was made from plastic used to create live projectiles. It is powered by a clockwork mechanism. The plane crash in Egypt on October 31, 2015 showed that the security system at the airport does not meet international standards. The IED could have entered the aircraft with a food company through staff with access to the runway, as well as through carry-on luggage during baggage check. The latest data is that it was in the cabin in the immediate vicinity of seat 31A. All these facts have led to the ban on the sale of vacation tours in Egypt.
Flight passengers
EI-ETJ - the last digits of the airbus number. According to them, the aviators called among themselves the board "Juliet", affectionately - "Dzhulka". On that tragic morning, she broke up three aviation marriages and killed a young steward who replaced a colleague who had quit because of a bad dream. She 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 shattered love stories, babies who are never destined to become adults. The ten-month-old Darina Gromova flew with her parents on this flight. Her mother posted a photo of her on a social network before flying out. A girl stands at the airport facing runway, and below the signature: “ Main passenger". This picture became a symbol of a tragic flight from which no one was able to return.
Almost all passengers are Russians, 4 people are citizens of Ukraine, 1 - Belarus. The majority are residents of St. Petersburg, although there are representatives of other regions: Pskov, Novgorod, Ulyanovsk. The victims of the plane crash in Egypt are people of various professions. While relatives were still identifying bodies, caring people formed a collective portrait of passengers, bit by bit collecting information about them. A wonderful gallery was created, where many good words were found about each.
Almost a year later
On July 31, Moscow and St. Petersburg held an action in memory of those killed over Sinai. Nine months have passed: many relatives received compensation, identified and buried their loved ones, but the pain did not subside. On August 5, 2016, it was reported that forty-five militants led by Abu Dua al-Ansari, who were responsible for the plane crash in Egypt, were destroyed during the military operation near El Arish. So I want to believe that this will never happen again!
Airbus 321 en route from Antalya, Turkey to Chelyabinsk, urgently landed in Volgograd. The reason was an unexpected depressurization of the cabin, due to which the landing of the plane, flying at an altitude of 10 thousand meters, took a little more than five minutes. According to passengers, when the oxygen masks suddenly fell out, the crew did not explain anything, since none of them spoke Russian.
Depressurization
Emergency landing A321 Turkish airline Onur Air performed on 20 May at 22:50. The liner transported 226 tourists from the resort of Antalya to Chelyabinsk. Not far from Volgograd, an airplane flying at an altitude of 10 thousand meters, and oxygen masks fell out of the panels. At the same time, none of the crew members spoke Russian and could not clearly explain to the frightened passengers what was happening.
“I shook violently and the oxygen masks fell out. The crew is Turkish. Nobody speaks Russian. Nobody could explain anything, "- said the passenger Alexei Sankov.
In just five minutes, the plane dropped from 10,000 meters to 500 meters. Because of what was happening on board, panic arose, some people were baptized, and children were crying. The passengers learned the reason for the emergency landing after landing at Gumrak airport.
“God forbid anyone to survive this. Emergency landing in five minutes instead of the prescribed 30 in thousands of kilometers from home. You begin to appreciate what is given from birth - life, ”wrote Olga Chernysheva.
Another passenger on the ill-fated flight posted a video filmed at the time of landing. On the footage, children can be heard crying. After landing, people began to wish each other a happy birthday.
Seven hours without food and tea
Fortunately, the landing was successful and no one was hurt. The passengers were accommodated in the air hub, promising to drive the reserve board in the morning and send everyone home.
“We are now sitting in Volgograd. We will just fly home at 08:45, ”Sankov said.
Olga Chernysheva explained that representatives of Onur Air did not provide tourists with any hot drinks or food even after seven hours of waiting for the flight.
“At eight o'clock in Volgograd we are waiting for another plane from Turkey. Buy like this package tour, the carrier is Turkish, on the plane no one speaks Russian at all, all that was provided to us at the Volgograd airport was water, ”the girl complained.
The press secretary of the airport Diana Bakulina confirmed to Interfax the information about the depressurization of the cabin. After boarding, passengers with children were taken to the hotel, the rest were accommodated in terminals C and C2. "Ambulance staff worked at the airport, psychological assistance was provided to passengers," she added.
Due to the emergency landing, the leadership of the Volgograd Transport Prosecutor's Office initiated an inspection of compliance with the safety requirements for the transportation of passengers.
“The Volgograd Transport Prosecutor’s Office organized a check of compliance with the legislation on flight safety upon the fact of an emergency landing of an Airbus 321 aircraft operating flight No. 877 of OnurAir on the Antalya-Chelyabinsk route,” the department said.
Nothing fatal happened
Honored Pilot of Russia and former flight director of Vnukovo Airlines, Yuri Sytnik, explained to 360 that the depressurization of any aircraft is a special case in flight. During such incidents, a pre-trained crew performs special actions to lower the board from the flight level to an altitude of 3.6-3.9 thousand meters and continues the flight to the first airfield, because an altitude of four thousand meters is enough oxygen for passengers not to there was fainting and people would not have suffered.
A321 can fly with one air conditioning system working, so if one did not work already, and the backup one failed on the way, then you have to urgently land at an intermediate airport. For the crew members, this is a normal situation, they work it out on simulators and in the classroom. There was nothing terrible for the passengers
Yuri Sytnik.
“If there was no previous explosion, then depressurization does not occur immediately, and air continues to flow into the passenger compartment. In the event of a breakdown and failure of elements of the main air-conditioning system, the captain of the ship turns on the backup system and makes a decision to land at the destination airport or at an intermediate airfield, ”said the pilot.
Nothing too bad, the expert assured, in such situations, no. There are, he noted, malfunctions of valves, the pressurization system, or mechanical damage - some hatch comes off, or somewhere the trunk or a door is closed incorrectly, although the latter, as a rule, is noticed by the crew immediately after takeoff. Therefore, in the case of Turkish Airbus this is most likely a system malfunction.
In such situations, the pilot noted, the commander can inform the passengers that due to a malfunction of the air conditioning system, the aircraft will make an unscheduled landing, or may not report. It is desirable to inform, Sytnik specified, this will help to avoid panic on board. But, here, it is better not to go into details, otherwise the opposite may happen: people will get scared and panic will intensify.
“Perhaps the crew themselves did not understand then that with the plane and they needed time to figure it out. But it is better, of course, to warn that people do not have panic and they understand what is happening to them and to the plane. But this issue is decided by the commander of the ship, ”the expert said.
There was nothing deadly for the passengers in the current situation, the expert concluded. Every year, thousands of similar accidents occur in the world, which no one except airlines knows about.
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