Kommersant: Experts excluded the version of the attack on board the Tu-154 of the Ministry of Defense

Experts did not find traces of the explosion on board the Tu-154 of the Ministry of Defense. According to Kommersant, traces of combat liner defeat with a rocket were also not discovered.

According to the publication, on behalf of the FSB, experts from the Research Institute of FSB, on behalf of military investigators, checked the baggage, armchairs and pieces of internal casing of the fuselage of the aircraft for traces of explosives, bomb fragments, as well as characteristic holes from the explosion. There was no evidence of the terrorist attack or shelling of the Earth aircraft as a result of the audit.

In addition, experts had to assess the specifics of damage to the design of the aircraft, on which the explosive wave from the bomb laid in the cabin leaves characteristic gaps with the edges bent out. A separate subject of study was through holes in some details of the aircraft, which could form both when the liner is destroyed after the water strike and from the effects of bomb fragments or the rocket that worked near the aircraft.

As a result, not a single factor was discovered, which at least indirectly testified in favor of the attack or shelling from the ground. Having worked out and excluding the terrorist version of the Tu-154B-2 disaster, the specialists focused on an error, possibly made by the crew of the aircraft. According to eyewitnesses, he did not fall, but smoothly reduced to the surface of the water, and the car's nose was "unnaturally lifted."

The terrorist version of the collapse of the liner flying to Syria was originally not called priority, however, the FSB and the Main Military Investigation of the Investigative Committee during the initiated criminal case on violation of the safety rules during the operation of transport (Article 263 of the Criminal Code).

As part of this case, explosive examinations were scheduled for the fragments of the fuselage of the liner, the remains of passengers, their personal belongings and the Tu-154 of the cargo phased from the bottom of the Black Sea. In the baggage compartments of the aircraft, as the note, there were medicines and the props of the song and dance ensemble of the Russian Army named after Aleksandrov.

The Tu-154 of the Ministry of Defense, who was traveling from Moscow to the Russian Khmeimim air base in Syria, crashed early on the morning of December 25 , two minutes after departure from Adler airport, where he landed at refueling. On board the aircraft were 92 people - eight crew members and 84 passengers. Among them were the musicians of the ensemble. Alexandrova, who went to speak to the Russian troops, as well as the military, officials of the Ministry of Defense and the Executive Director of the Fair Assistance Foundation Elizabeth Glinka (Dr. Lisa). All of them died.