Terrorist acts in aviation. Objects and results of the attack

Russian investigators are working at the site of a plane crash in the Ramenskoye region, the crash of which claimed the lives of more than 70 people.

At present, rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations continue to dismantle the wreckage. All 65 passengers were killed, including several children, as well as six crew members.

Variants of the versions are a crew error in adverse weather conditions, a technical malfunction of the An-148, as well as icing. Recall that the An-148 aircraft with tail number RA-61704, which performed regular flight 6V-703 Moscow - Orsk, was supposed to take off from capital airport Domodedovo at 14:00.

According to dispatchers, at 14:27 the An-148 suddenly disappeared from the radar screens. Operational services immediately sounded the alarm. According to dispatchers, the plane behaved very strangely in the last minutes: it rose to a height of 1800 meters, then fell to 1500, then rose again to 1800 and abruptly went to the ground.

As an eyewitness explained, "first something exploded under the wing, and it caught fire. After that there was another flash - and the plane fell sharply down. Everyone saw the flash. Everything was so fast."

Regarding the aircraft, it is reported that the An-148 was produced by PJSC "Voronezh Joint-Stock Aircraft Building Company" (VASO) in 2010 under the license of the Ukrainian design office"Antonov".

Previously, from 2010 to 2015, the RA-61704 airliner was operated by the Rossiya airline, which allowed it to fly abroad. During the operation, the owners of the aircraft found out that the board had a number of defects, which could not be eliminated in the working order.

There have been incidents with this type of aircraft before - in 2010, the right engine failed at the crashed side in the Moscow region, and he was forced to return to the Pulkovo departure airport.

Later, on a flight from Kaliningrad to St. Petersburg, during landing approach, his engine thrust spontaneously increased, and the pilots had to take the car to the second circle.

The conclusion of the commissions was that in both cases, design flaws were the cause of the incidents. In 2016, Rossiya Airlines handed over this aircraft to Saratov Airlines as part of a subleasing agreement signed in 2015. four aircraft of this type.

According to preliminary data from experts, much suggests that the engine collapsed in the air. It is possible that a fire in one of the engines could provoke an explosion of the wing and the aircraft. There is another version, according to which the speed sensor on the plane was iced up, which began to display data incorrectly.

Because of this, the instruments, in turn, could show the wrong speed, and the pilots increased the engine thrust, mistakenly believing that the speed was dropping. This led to an additional load on the engine and the possible destruction of parts.

On this moment it is known that the An-148 aircraft after the crash in the suburbs left a funnel about 2 meters deep. Apparently, it exploded on impact with the ground.

"A funnel 2.5 deep and about 17 meters in diameter formed at the crash site of the plane. Small fragments of the plane are scattered inside the funnel, some of which fused together," eyewitnesses said.

According to some witnesses, the plane was on fire during the fall, "sparks and flames were visible." According to others, "there was no fire, only smoke was visible." On February 12 in the morning, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported on the completion of the rescue operation.

Thus, the death of all people on board the crashed aircraft was finally confirmed. It is already known that among them were citizens of Azerbaijan and Switzerland.

"Imagine a provincial Russian airline. There are almost no flights, there are no local ones at all. The accounts are blocked by the Federal Tax Service. Salary debts to employees (including pilots) are under 40 million, of which 1.4 million were back in August. Debts to the PFR of comparable sizes. The director has two sluggish criminal cases, and the commercial one has an injunction to hold leadership positions. One own board and one leased (for flights you need at least three). Sometimes it is possible to borrow a tower for treating the sides with an anti-icer from warrior neighbors, leaving them a ladder as a pledge. Can rules be broken? passenger traffic? Could this lead to something bad? Come on, some kind of nonsense," Zhilinsky argues in his telegram channel.

In particular, the honored pilot of Russia, a member of the commission under the President of Russia for the development of civil aviation, Yuri Sytnik, said in an interview with Pravda.ru that versions are being eliminated one by one.

“A collision here is hardly possible, because it all happened in the clouds, at an altitude of about two thousand meters - there helicopters don’t fly in the clouds in the Moscow zone, drones and drones don’t fly there in such weather either. - this is a very big chatter, overload on board, that is, there was a variable overload, and most likely got into a “good” updraft, and it was simply thrown down because of the chatter, then picked up, there is a so-called pickup, and then an irreversible process occurs @? - considers the pilot.

"If this surge of the updraft is not parried in time, then the angle of attack becomes supercritical, the flow stalls, the aircraft turns along the longitudinal axis, and goes down with acceleration. After reaching a certain speed, the destruction speed, some hatches can fly off in the air , some hatches, shields, and this could lead to an ellipsoidal spread of parts," he added.

“An engine fire does not lead to such a crash of the aircraft. Icing is also unlikely - the speed is high there, the icy wing or stabilizer no longer affects it so much. And then there are irreversible consequences. The pilot tried to fight, but there are not enough rudders, the elevator is shading, and the plane does not get out of this situation, "the expert believes.

“I don’t want to blame either the crew or the pilots, it’s too early to say this. The pilots, most likely, fought to the end for the lives of passengers, the plane, their lives. In the Moscow zone, alas, such altitude throws are frequent. one factor, and a very serious one at that - usually in the turbulence the crew reports to the dispatcher that they met with very intense turbulence, high turbulence. Nothing was said here, most likely, this could not have happened. Then there is only an explosion on board. We are waiting for data from the recorders ", he concluded.

Monday declared a day of mourning in Orenburg region. The leaders of Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Estonia, Ukraine, the EU, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the United States brought their condolences. The International Olympic Committee has designated a zone of mourning in the Olympic Village for the PyeongChang Winter Games.

(Rostov region , )

Airplane bombings (2004)- major aviation accidents as a result of terrorist attacks that occurred on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 in Russia. Almost simultaneously (with an interval of one minute) two airliners exploded in the air: Tu-134A-3 of the Volga-Aviaexpress airline (flight WLG1303 Moscow-Volgograd) and Tu-154B-2 of Siberia Airlines (flight SBI1047 Moscow-Sochi) . Both aircraft took off from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. A little over an hour after takeoff, both aircraft were blown up by suicide bombers. Flight 1303 crashed to the ground near the village of Buchalki (Tula region), and flight 1047 crashed near the village of Glubokiy (Rostov region). A total of 89 people died: 43 on board Flight 1303 (34 passengers and 9 crew members) and 46 on Flight 1047 (38 passengers and 8 crew members). Russian President Vladimir Putin declared August 26, 2004 a day of mourning for the dead in Russia.

Flight 1303 [ | ]

Airplane [ | ]

Tu-134A-3 ( registration number RA-65080, factory - 60065, serial - 42-07) was released by the Kharkov State Aviation Production Enterprise (KSAMC) on July 19, 1977. On October 13 of the same year, it was transferred to the Aeroflot airline (MGA of the USSR, North Caucasian UGA, Volgograd OJSC (since 1987 - Astrakhan OJSC)). After Aeroflot, it was operated by the airlines "" (from March 1993 to May 2004) and "Kogalymavia" (from May to August 2004). In early August 2004, it was purchased by the Volga-Aviaexpress airline. It is equipped with two double-circuit turbojet engines D-30-III of the Perm Motor Plant.

Crew [ | ]

Flight WLG1303 was operated by an experienced crew consisting of the following [ ] :

Three flight attendants worked in the cabin of the aircraft:

• Ekaterina Fedorovna Saltykova, 41 years old.
• Svetlana Nikolaevna Golovina, 32 years old.
• Oksana Valerievna Bobrovskikh, 34 years old.

Catastrophe [ | ]

Flight WLG1303 took off from Moscow at 22:30 MSK and headed for Volgograd. On board were 34 passengers and 9 crew members.

At 22:54, when the plane was flying over the Tula region, a strong explosion occurred in its tail section. The liner, torn into two parts, crashed to the ground from a height of 9500 meters. The wreckage of the aircraft was found 2 kilometers north of the village of Kimovsky district of the Tula region. The tail section of the liner lay 700 meters from the bow and wings. All 43 people on board were killed.

The explosion on the plane was arranged by a 30-year-old suicide bomber Aminat Nagayeva. Aminat's sister, Roza Nagayeva, was destroyed a few days later during the assault on a school in Beslan seized by terrorists.

Flight 1047 [ | ]

Airplane [ | ]

Tu-154B-2 (registration number RA-85556, factory - 82A556, serial - 0556) was released by the Kuibyshev Aviation Plant KuAZ (now the Samara Aviation Plant Aviakor) on September 22, 1982. On October 6 of the same year, it was transferred to the Aeroflot airline (MGA of the USSR, Latvian CAA, 1st Riga JSC (Skulte)). After Aeroflot, it was operated by the Latavio airline (from December 21, 1992 to February 15, 1996, board YL-LAD) and (from February 15, 1996 to June 2001). In early June 2001, it was purchased by Siberia Airlines. It is equipped with three bypass turbofan engines NK-8-2U of the Kazan Engine-Building Production Association (KMPO). On the day of the attack, 30751 hours flew.

Crew [ | ]

Flight SBI1047 was flown by a very experienced crew, consisting of the following:

Four flight attendants worked in the cabin of the aircraft:

• Olga Sergeevna Bykovskaya, 41 years old - senior flight attendant.
• Sergey Vladimirovich Ivanov, 38 years old.
• Yana Gennadievna Tarsukova, 30 years old.
• Marina Petrovna Khudeyeva, 25 years old.

Catastrophe [ | ]

Flight SBI1047 took off from Moscow at 21:35 MSK and headed for Sochi. On board were 38 passengers and 8 crew members.

At 22:53, during a flight over the Rostov region, a strong explosion occurred in the tail section of Flight 1047. A hole formed in the board of the liner, the drives and control wiring were broken, tail section came off. The plane lost control and began to fall. The crew did their best to keep the plane in the air, but at 22:55 MSK, the unmanned aircraft crashed near the village of Glubokoy, Kamensky District, Rostov Region, and completely collapsed. Some fragments of the plane fell on the residential buildings of the village, but no one on the ground was injured. All 46 people on board were killed.

6 passengers checked in for flight 1047 before boarding, but they did not get on board. Latecomers' luggage was removed. The state commission dealt with the clarification of the circumstances of the delay of passengers; the results of her work remain unknown. [ ]

The explosion on the plane was arranged by the second suicide bomber, 37-year-old Satsita Dzhebirkhanova.

Investigation [ | ]

Even before the bombed planes took off, police captain Mikhail Artamonov detained Nagayeva and Dzhebirkhanova at Domodedovo Airport to check their documents, but did not search them and released them. The suicide bombers at that time were dressed lightly and, apparently, still without explosives. Within the next hour they boarded their flights. After the attacks, Artamonov was accused of criminal negligence. In May - June 2005, a trial took place over him, and on June 30, the Domodedovo City Court sentenced Mikhail Artamonov to 7 years in prison.

After the terrorists were released by Artamonov, the speculator Armen Harutyunyan sold them tickets without presenting their passports. Nagayeva purchased a ticket for flight WLG1303 for $170, while Dzhebirkhanova paid a bribe of 2,000 rubles to Harutyunyan to help him buy the ticket. Arutyunyan handed over 1,000 rubles to Siberia Airlines representative Nikolai Korenkov for reissuing a ticket for an earlier flight. Harutyunyan and Korenkov were sentenced to one and a half years in prison.

Then Nagaeva and Dzhebirkhanova successfully passed the pre-flight control and got on board the aircraft.

Responsibility for the attacks[ | ]

Immediately after the attacks, the Islambouli Brigades terrorist organization took responsibility for them. But the Chechen terrorist Shamil Basayev said that he had prepared the attacks. On September 17, 2004, he published a statement on the Chechen separatist website Kavkaz Center, in which he claimed that the attacks had cost him $4,000.

In an interview with Andrei Babitsky, Basayev claimed that the terrorists he sent did not blow up the planes, but only captured them.

Damage and insurance claims[ | ]

A feature of recognizing these catastrophes as insured events and settling these insured events was that they were caused by terrorist attacks, which are an exception for most insurance contracts.

Casco insurance payments aircraft not produced on any of the aircraft. Compensation for the victims was made both by insurance companies and by Siberia and Volga-Aviaexpress airlines, as well as by federal and regional budgets.

Flight 1047 passengers were insured as required

Investigators check everything possible versions An-148 crash of Saratov Airlines, including weather, human factor, technical condition aircraft and other options. This was reported to the press by the official representative of the TFR Svetlana Petrenko.

“Investigators will check all possible versions of the crash, including weather conditions, the human factor, the technical condition of the aircraft and other possible scenarios,” Petrenko said. It should be noted that the version about the possibility of a terrorist act does not appear in the statements of officials.

The representative of the Investigative Committee clarified that investigative actions in the case of the crash of the An-148 are underway in three regions of the Russian Federation. “Currently, investigators are working at the scene, as well as in Saratov, Orsk, Orenburg, at Domodedovo Airport,” Petrenko said (quoted by TASS).

In particular, the investigators of the Investigative Committee are interrogating the employees of the Domodedovo airport, who were preparing the An-148 aircraft for flight. “Investigators are identifying Domodedovo airport workers who were preparing the aircraft for flight, and have already begun interrogating them. Similar work is being carried out through the dispatch service of the airport of departure,” Petrenko said. Also, the investigating authorities seize documents at the office of Saratov Airlines.

Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin arrived at the crash site. “To coordinate the necessary actions, Alexander Bastrykin will hold an operational meeting and hear the first reports on the progress of the work,” Petrenko said.

The area of ​​the crash that was cordoned off by police within a radius of about 2 km being explored with a drone. According to preliminary data, there were no reports of malfunctions from the crew of the An-148 that crashed in the Moscow region, the UK noted.

It is specified that the radius of dispersion of fragments of the fallen An-148 is at least 1 km.

Passenger aircraft An-148 of the airline " Saratov Airlines”, flying from Moscow to Orsk, disappeared from the radar screens immediately after takeoff from Domodedovo Airport. The wreckage of the aircraft was found near the village of Stepanovskoye, Ramensky district, Moscow region. Death Confirmed all 65 passengers and six crew members.

Eyewitnesses: a large crater formed at the crash site of the plane

The An-148 aircraft after a crash in the Moscow region left a funnel about 2 meters deep, apparently, it exploded on impact with the ground, said Interfax eyewitness from the scene.

“A crater 2.5 deep and about 17 meters in diameter formed at the crash site of the plane. Small fragments of the aircraft are scattered inside the funnel, some of which have fused together, ”the source said.

He said that there were no large fragments of the plane left. “At the crash site, only fine debris. It looks like the plane full of fuel hit the ground and exploded into small pieces,” he said. In the disaster there is a woodland of 30-40 trees, their height is cut to three meters.

In addition, according to him, separate fragments of bodies were found at the crash site.

Another eyewitness to the crash said earlier that the plane “first exploded under the wing, and it caught fire. After that there was another flash and the plane plummeted down. Everyone saw the flash. Everything was so fast, ”the Mash Telegram channel quoted him.

A LifeShot channel leads eyewitness account of Alexander, who said that when the plane crashed, there was an explosion with a large cloud, “like a nuclear one, only in miniature.”(testimony of witnesses speaks in favor of the version of the terrorist attack - Ed. Agony RU)

Exactly 10 years have passed since this tragedy occurred. Tragedy when suicide bombers blew up two planes at the same time

On August 24, 2004, the marks of two aircraft disappeared from the radar screens at once: Tu-134 over Tula and Tu-154 over Rostov. Let's remember how it was.

Among the 90 dead was a team of Barnaul flight attendants Olga Bykovskaya, Sergey Ivanov, Yana Tarsukova and Marina Khudeyeva.

Since the day when the marks of the Tu-134 over Tula (flight of the Volga-Aviaexpress airline) and the Tu-154 over Rostov (Siberia) disappeared from the radar screens, we pray not only for the professionalism of the pilots and the power of the engines, but and for the fact that the next "savior of the world" does not cross out our plans for the future. Stunned by hitherto unknown grief, the country struggled to understand how a man, let him be a suicide bomber, but still a man, carries explosives on board, knowing for sure that he will kill everyone. Children, pilots, healthy, infirm, Muslims, Orthodox.

Time does not heal those who have lost their mother, child, friend. Remembering the dead guys, they talk about life. The fact that phobias have not weaned people from loving airplanes and flights. All four smile from the portraits - Yana, Olya, Seryozha and Marina, young, beautiful - they are like that in last time gone to your favorite sky. Except for Marina Khudeyeva, all of them are “children of the regiment”, that is, the Barnaul squadron. For 10 years, Nina Khudeyeva managed to raise her grandchildren (Marina’s sons are now 15 and 11 years old), but she didn’t understand when a girl from an “earthly” family had this desire to fly: “I have been working as a ticket clerk all my life, and our daughter graduated university with a degree in Psychology before the disaster itself. We, the parents, have already received her diploma. Our family is the only one here, not related to aviation. But it doesn't matter, grief has brought us together. We gather, we remember, and it seems that the children are among us.”

Gennady Kuznetsov, father of Yana Tarsukova, has been flying many types of aircraft for 30 years. Here, in barnaul airport, her mother Lyudmila Ivanovna also worked. Often visiting her parents at work, the girl dreamed: "I will be a dispatcher." And the father was not surprised when the daughter informed him of her decision to fly.

“Immediately after that August business trip, my daughter was going on vacation,” recalls Gennady Ivanovich, “she herself asked for a flight from Moscow to Sochi, she was happy: “I’m flying, I’m swimming in the sea – and I’m relaxing.” The day before, we talked with her, I asked: “Enough, daughter, you have flown, you can already retire, go away, you never know.” She replied: "My life may be short, but it is interesting." She always went to work like a holiday, and before that flight she complained to her friend Marina: she didn’t want to fly.

“When the flight director called me and said that the mark had disappeared from the radar screen, I immediately understood everything,” Vladimir Ivanov, Sergey's father, continues the baton of the fathers. In those years, he was the chief of staff of the Barnaul air squadron.

– Vladimir Friedrichovich, why did you immediately think of the worst? After all, the navigation equipment could simply fail.

- Controllers pass the plane to each other, from zone to zone. If the equipment fails, the label will still remain. In my practice, she disappeared several times. The outcome was the same in all cases...

As a boy, Sergei Bykovsky, Olga's father, fell ill with airplanes when he saw a small Li-2 that had landed in his village. After graduating from Omsk aviation school, he arrived in Barnaul, flew as a flight mechanic in the same crew with Gennady Kuznetsov. And he was quietly glad that his daughter Olga had passed the craving for airplanes. The girl studied English, music, not thinking about the sky. Until the younger Valya, who nevertheless became a flight attendant, seduced her.

Did your parents have a premonition of trouble? “It was,” Sergey Bykovsky confirms, telling how his grandson Artem, then seven years old, did not want to let his mother go on her last flight. - We rested at the dacha with our grandson, Olya came to us before the flight. And now she already needs to go back, but he does not let her go, rushes after her - they have never said goodbye like that. And then he climbed onto the roof, looked at the sky for a long time and suddenly asked: “Grandfather, what will happen if the plane explodes? People and suitcases will fly head over heels from there?” I felt like cold. And in the morning, Valentina's daughter from Moscow called, I understood her voice - trouble.

According to statistics, mysteriously, on flights that fall into disasters, people most often give up tickets or are late.

- We found out - no one handed over tickets and was not late, - the Tu-154 flight attendant Irina Kalinichenko refutes the idea of ​​"AP", - then the planes flew half empty. After the bankruptcy of the Barnaul aviation enterprise, Siberia Airlines created the Barnaul branch in 1997, the first, by the way, in Russia, retaining the team. We began to fly on business trips, as part of Moscow crews we worked on domestic flights. But there was simply no other work for us.

Irina Vasilievna recalls: they then drank goryushka with “crimson jackets” - a lot of them then flew in the 90s. Therefore, one of the main requirements for the professional qualities of flight attendants has become stress resistance. Plus to good health, appearance, language skills, communication skills, knowledge of emergency equipment, expiration dates of products, serving basics, etc. The new Russians allowed themselves a lot. Once, during lunch on board, one of the passengers blocked the passage of the cabin with his feet, interfering with the girls who were rolling the cart. He did not respond to their requests to give the opportunity to feed the passengers, and Yana Tarsukova and another stewardess solved the problem this way: having reached the feet of the obstinate with the cart, they moved it and drove on.

For the colleagues of the dead children, as well as for their parents, time stopped at the mark of 24.08.2004. As if yesterday, Ruslan Shaferov helped Sergey Ivanov move to a new apartment two weeks before his last flight. He flew away before unpacking the boxes. Daniil Mayor, the youngest in that team of Barnaul guides, met the guys on the airfield an hour before their death: “I was one of the last to see them alive. We flew to Moscow from Hannover, and Olya, Seryozha, Yana and Marina were going to meet us on the flight. We talked, leaving, they smiled. And soon we learned that the mark was gone.

A week after the plane crash, a new one happened in Beslan. 334 people died, 186 children. All the country's attention has shifted there ...

On the way from the airport, we stopped at the Vlasikhinsky cemetery, where a memorial in the form of a broken wing was erected on the graves of Olga, Yana, Sergei and Marina. The silence over their peace was broken only by cuckoos, counting the years for someone in the crowns of trees, and four swifts that fluttered from the tombstone.

Everything is regular. The crew is doing their usual job.

22:50:54
(Nrzb.) * We go to the settlement.

22:51:00
20 kilometers at 50.

22:51:04
40, 40 is necessary.

22:51:06
50, 50 kilometers.

22:51:09
We are recruiting (nrzb).

22:51:10
Yes, we have a headwind.

22:51:13
Yes.

22:51:34
This is how it should be.

22:51:37
150.

22:52:22
VOR can be turned on?

22:52:43
THIEF.

22:52:44
Don't need it yet.

22:52:45
A?

22:52:46
Can?

22:52:47
It is possible, it is possible.

22:52:48
Yes.

22:52:49
I turn it on.

22:53:10,4.
Intense sound effect and the beginning of noises (until the end of the recording).

22:53:11.
A long cry.

22:53:13,7.
Start of intermittent sound.
Depressurization signal

22:53:15,4.
Screams.

22:53:23,1.
Swearing.

22:53:31,8.
Moan.

22:53:36.
Scream.

22:53:45,9.
A long cry.

22:53:48,7.
Oh! (Swearing, shouting.)

22:53:52,7.
A long cry.

22:53:56,6.
Where are we?
It is difficult to say what this phrase means. Most likely, a crew member is trying to find their bearings in which area they are. Estimates where they will now stop flying. The question, apparently, is being asked by the flight engineer or co-pilot.

22:53:57,7.
Scream.

22:53:58,9.
Scream.

22:53:59,9 - 22:54:11,6.
Intermittent signal with a frequency of about 1000 Hz (6 inclusions).

22:53:59,9.
Uh.
Moan

22:54:00.
Where?

22:54:06,7.
Where?

22:54:09,6.
Uh. (Swearing.)

22:54:10,6.
Eh, sorry.

22:54:11.
The screams of two people at the same time.

22:54:13,1.
Depressurization.
A minute and three seconds after the explosion, after the reigning mess in the cockpit, groans and screams, a clear assessment of what happened is given. It is made on the basis of differential pressure and alarms. Most likely, the commander assessed the situation.

22:54:14,5.
Manager: 85556, height?

22:54:19,2.
What's happened?

22:54:21,1.
Depressurization.

22:54:22,8.
A depressurization has occurred.

22:54:25.
Screams, moans.

22:54:28,4.
Come on, let's take the helm away from you.

22:54:31,7.
Steering wheel away from you. (With difficulties.)

22:54:32,5.
Manager: 85556, height?

22:54:38,3.
Eight.

22:54:43.
Where are we?

22:54:45,2.
Wait.

22:54:46,1.
That's all!

22:54:48,4.
81.

22:54:49,5.
Eat.

22:54:56,8.
God!

22:55:01,6.
No, no, not here, not here. (Swearing.)

22:55:07,5.
Well, take it upon yourself.

22:55:08,8.
To myself?

22:55:09,8.
To myself.

22:55:10,3.
Let's!

22:55:12,5.
Are you here?

22:55:14,8.
Leave.

22:55:16,7.
Where are we?

22:55:19.
Ah-ah-ah!

22:55:20,3.
To myself!

22:55:23,1.
Groans.

22:55:23,7.
Stop recording.

Ground impact.

From the Lockerbie bombing and the twin tower attacks to the Sinai disaster

The head of the FSB of Russia, Alexander Bortnikov, said on the eve that the Russian airliner A321 crashed in the Sinai Peninsula as a result of a terrorist attack. According to him, experts found traces of explosives on the wreckage of the liner and in the luggage. " real time”remembered the most high-profile terrorist attacks on airliners.

American Airlines Flight 011, September 11, 2001 (collision with WTC North Tower, New York)

A Boeing 767 operated by American Airlines operated a scheduled flight from Boston to Los Angeles. 15 minutes after takeoff, five members of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda broke down the door to the cockpit, killed both pilots and seized control of the aircraft. One of the terrorists, Egyptian Mohammed Atta, being a licensed commercial pilot, took control of the aircraft.

About half an hour after the capture, the plane crashed into north tower World shopping center in New York, between the 93rd and 99th floors. 92 people died on the plane and 1,366 in the building as a result of the collision, fire and collapse of the tower.

Boeing crashed into south tower World Trade Center at 950 km/h between the 77th and 85th floors. Photo ap.org

United Airlines Flight 175, September 11, 2001 (collision with WTC South Tower, New York)

A United Airlines Boeing 767 operated a scheduled flight from Boston to Los Angeles. The crash scenario is similar to American Airlines Flight 011: half an hour after takeoff, five terrorists entered the cockpit, killed the pilots and seized control of the aircraft. Among the terrorists was one pilot, a citizen of the UAE, Marwan Al-Shehhi, who flew the aircraft.

Half an hour after being hijacked, the Boeing crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center at a speed of 950 km/h between the 77th and 85th floors. 65 people died on board, 637 in the World Trade Center building.

Air India Flight 182, 23 June 1985 (explosion over Cork)

Boeing 747 operated a regular flight on the route Montreal - London - Delhi - Bombay. When the plane was flying over the ocean 70 km from the city of Cork in the south-west of Ireland, in the forward cargo hold an explosion occurred, as a result of which the tail came off and the aircraft collapsed.

Sikh separatists Amman and Lal Singh, who checked in for the flight but were not on it, were blamed for the attack. Terrorists were also suspected of attempting to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi during his visit to the United States.

The explosion killed 329 people.

As a result of the disaster over Lockerbie, 270 people died - 259 on board and 11 on the ground. Photo by Greg Bos (r euters.com)

Pan American Flight 103, December 21, 1988 (explosion over Lockerbie)

Boeing 747 made a regular flight on the route London - New York. An hour after departure from London, an explosion occurred in the cargo hold. As a result, the nose of the aircraft came off, and when the aircraft fell, the fuel caught fire. The fire destroyed several houses. As a result of the disaster, 270 people died - 259 on board and 11 on the ground.

According to the results of the investigation, the explosive device was in a suitcase en route from Frankfurt without a passenger. The charge was brought against two Libyans - Ali Mahmed al-Megrahi and Lamin Khalifa Fimah. Al-Megrahi was the head of security for the national Libyan carrier at Luqa Airport in Malta, as well as an employee of the Libyan special services and a cousin of one of the associates of Muammar Gaddafi, the leader of Libya.

Metrojet Flight 9268 (Kogalymavia), October 31, 2015 (crash over the Sinai Peninsula)

Airbus A321 performed chartered flight Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg for tour operator Brisco. 23 minutes after departure, communication with the crew was lost, and the aircraft disappeared from the radar screens.

The wreckage of the plane was found near Egyptian city Nehel. 217 people died.

On November 17, 2015, the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, said that the Airbus crashed as a result of a terrorist attack - evidence of this was traces of explosives on the wreckage of the liner and in luggage.

The plane crashed into the west wing of the Pentagon. 64 people on board and 125 people in the building were killed. Photo minnesota.publicradio.org

American Airlines Flight 77, September 11, 2001 (crash on the Pentagon in Washington)

The third aircraft hijacked during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. The Boeing 757 operated a scheduled flight from Washington DC to Los Angeles. The hijacking followed the same scenario as the hijacking of the planes that collided with the buildings of the World Trade Center in New York: five terrorists, one of whom was a trained pilot (Heney Henjor from Saudi Arabia).

The plane crashed into the west wing of the Pentagon. 64 people on board and 125 people in the building were killed.

Flight 772 Union de transports aériens, 19 September 1989 (explosion over the desert of Tenere)

McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 operated a regular flight on the route Brazzaville - N'Djamena - Paris. The plane made an intermediate landing in N'Djamena (Chad) and disappeared at 14:30, en route to Paris.

The next morning in the desert of Tenere, near the Nigerian city of Bilma, the wreckage of the ship was discovered. 170 people died.

It was subsequently revealed that at 13:59 a bomb exploded in the cargo hold, causing the aircraft to break into several pieces. The bomb was planted at the Brazzaville airport (Republic of the Congo). In the course of further investigation, it was established that the explosion was organized at the direction of the Libyan authorities in connection with France's military assistance to Chad during the Chadian-Libyan conflict.

Tu-154 airline "Siberia" collapsed in the Kamensky district Rostov region. Photo avia.pro

Flight 1047 of Siberia Airlines, August 24, 2004 (explosion over the Rostov region)

The Tu-154 aircraft of the Siberia Airlines operated a flight between Moscow Domodedovo Airport and Sochi. During a flight over the Rostov region, 37-year-old suicide bomber Satsita Dzhebirkhanova detonated an explosive device. As a result of the explosion, a hole was formed in the tail section, and it came off. The plane crashed in the Kamensky district of the Rostov region. 46 people died.

This is the second of the plane explosions that took place that day as part of a single terrorist attack. The Islambouli Brigades terrorist organization claimed responsibility for the attack. Subsequently, Chechen terrorist Shamil Basayev also claimed responsibility.

United Airlines Flight 93, September 11, 2001 (crash in Pennsylvania)

The fourth aircraft hijacked during the September 11, 2001 attacks. Boeing 757 operated a scheduled flight from Newark (New Jersey) to San Francisco.

Captured according to the “standard” scenario for that day, the plane, controlled by one of the terrorists, Ziyad Jarrah, headed for Washington 46 minutes after takeoff.

Unlike other planes on 9/11, the passengers on the flight attempted to take control of the ship. They made attempts to break into the cockpit, captured by terrorists. However, Jarrah, who was flying the liner, managed to put Boeing into a tailspin earlier. The plane crashed into a field 20 minutes from the US capital.

44 people died.

Over territory Tula region 30-year-old suicide bomber Aminat Nagayeva detonated an explosive device. Photo by Svetlana Eliseeva (tass.ru)

Volga-Aviaexpress flight 1303, August 24, 2004 (explosion over the Tula region)

The Tu-134 aircraft of Volga-Aviaexpress operated a flight from Moscow Domodedovo Airport to Volgograd Gumrak Airport. 15 minutes after departure, while over the territory of the Tula region, 30-year-old suicide bomber Aminat Nagayeva detonated an explosive device.

The plane broke into two pieces and crashed locality in the Kimovsky district of the Tula region. 43 people died.

The explosion on board Flight 1047, which crashed in the Rostov region, occurred at the same time. The Islambuli Brigades and Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for both attacks.

A week later, on August 31, an explosion occurred near the Rizhskaya metro station in Moscow, which killed 10 people and injured 33. On September 1, a hostage-taking began at a school in Beslan, resulting in the death of 333 people.

Maxim Matveev