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Death TU-154: Many Versions, but No Prime Suspects And there likely will not be...
Friday, October 5, 2001
(11:27)
Utro.Ru

”... the weapon, which was used at this time, according to tactical-technical data could not reach the air corridors, in which was located our airship." -- Vladimir Putin

The yesterday's emergency of aircraft Tu-154 of airline "Siberia", that followed from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk, caused present shock. Are still fresh in the memory of terrorist attack in THE USA, and warnings of American authorities about the possibility of the new attacks of extremists they little to whom give to sleep quietly.

For the past the evening and night appeared three basic versions of that happening. Basic -- terrorist attack on board the aircraft. But in the Israeli airport Ben Gurion acts, by the acknowledgement of specialists, one of most reliable safety systems in the world. The country lives in the state of constant stress because of the incessant conflict with Palestine, and therefore enormous value is given to providing flight safety. And penetration onboard to kamikaze is practically excluded. Initial information about the refueling of aircraft in Bulgaria was disproved by the representatives of airline "Siberia". Thus, is completely excluded the sounded previously version about the fact that the terrorists sat down on the aircraft in the airport of Sofia. Gloomy piquancy to catastrophe adds the fact that on the ill-fated aircraft flew Vladimir Alekseyev, chief of inspection on the flight safety. He returned from Israel after consultations with his Israeli associates.

The second version, least probable -- this is the technical malfunction of aircraft. But the government "of Siberia" they gave the statements about complete proper working order of board/edge. 85693. In the case of the failure of any systems during the flight the crew would know how to feed any signal about the contingency situation. It suffices to recall that the ground-based services recorded all negotiations of the pilots before the emergency Tu-154 under Irkutsk on 3 July of this year. On 4 October, according to the air-traffic controllers, everything occurred within a few seconds, no alarming communications from crew it came.

One additional version, which has a right to existence, but is refuted by the interested persons -- fatal error while conducting of the studies of Ukrainian forces PVO -- AIR DEFENSE two ships VMS of the Ukraine -- frigate "hetman Sagaydachnyy" and korvet "Lutsk" -- they must they beat carry out shooting at the pilotless target drone of the type "voyage". But educational goal was located in 200 kilometers from the place of the fall of commercial airplane, yes even the flying range of rockets does not exceed 10 kilometers. So that fault VMS is practically excluded.

However, ground-based forces PVO -- AIR DEFENSE had to use in the studies complexes S-300 precisely their projectiles we could strike Tu-154. The additional weight of this version add observational data of the American servicemen, who fixed the launching of two surface-to-air missiles "земля-воздух" approximately at the same time, also, in the same region, when and where occurred emergency. But Ukrainian officials reject to comment on this information. The studies of air defense forces of the Ukraine will be continued and they will end on 12 October.

Vladimir Putin also is not inclined to blame the Ukraine in that happening. He stated that "previously all necessary services were set in the reputation" about the prepared studies. "In the second place, the weapon, which was used at this time, according to tactical-technical data could not reach the air corridors, in which was located our airship."

Most likely, the mystery of catastrophe Tu-154 will be hardly opened, in spite of the demands of the Russian President Vladimir Putin. The fragments of aircraft together with "the black boxes" rest at a depth of approximately two kilometers.
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