"Eternal cloudless sky"

Saratovites brought flowers to the airport in memory of the dead members of the An-148 crew

A day after the An-148 Disaster, which operated on the Moscow-Orsk flight, a mourning ceremony of color laying in the Saratov airport in memory of the dead crew members was held at the Saratov airport.

In front of the airport building, cloves and dark roses are already lying. Since yesterday evening, bouquets carry to the anniversary stone, installed several years ago in honor of the next anniversary of the foundation of the airport. Most of those who came are women. The newspaper chips are unfolded, flowers are placed on a snowy flowerbed, the petals cringe in the cold. Women brush off from television cameras. The frozen television men rush to each next visitor. A man who brought two white memorial candles in transparent stands agrees to talk. “I knew the father of the stewardess Vika Koval, lived on the same street. I read about the accident in social networks. My daughter is growing up too. Scary, ”the interlocutor's voice intercepts.

The mourning ceremony for employees goes inside the airport terminal, opposite the cash desk. Stewardesses lined up against the wall. The girls have blue costumes and the same hairstyles - hair is collected on the back of the head, like students of a ballet school. On the column - a black poster with a candle, they managed to print the circulation overnight. The table nearby is littered with red cloves and yellow chrysanthemums. Behind him are six employees with photographs of those who died in their hands. Portraits also prepared urgently, took pictures from personal affairs, adding a black tape in the corners.

The flight attendant of Anastasia Slavinskaya would have turned 30 this year. She began to fly in 2011, having received a higher education in the field of advertising. Victoria Koval came to the airline in 2016 after the college of building bridges and hydraulic fires. She was 21 years old. The dead girls remained mothers. The commander of the aircraft Valery Gubanov was 51 years old. He grew up in the Tambov region. He graduated from the Higher Military School, flew to the An-12, worked at the Airlines "Russia", since October 2016-in "Saratov Airlines". Gubanov’s total raid-more than 5 thousand hours, on the An-148-more than 2 thousand hours. The second pilot Sergey Gambaryan was born in 1973 by mineral waters, lived in Moscow. He graduated from the Chelyabinsk flight school and St. Petersburg University of Civil Aviation. He flew to the An-148 at the Angara airline, from July 2017-in Saratov Airlines. The total raid on ships of this type was more than 800 hours with him. Oleg Sergeyev and Andrei Revyakin also died in the disaster-they flew to conduct An-148 maintenance at transit airports.

“Eternal cloudless sky to them,” says the veteran of the enterprise, former director Yuri Davydov. Immediately, a girlish voice announces: “The plane was landing, which performed flight No. 765 from Moscow. The flight is performed by the company "Saratov Airlines". The announcer slowly repeats the same in English. The hall listens to the last word in complete silence.

“Here is a box. Those who want can help, ”the representative of the trade union announces. - The company will help the families of the dead. But your participation will not be superfluous. Nastya had a mortgage, it would be difficult for relatives to pay. ”

According to the press service of Saravia, the company will deliver relatives of the victims to Moscow and will place the genetic examination necessary for identification. In addition, the company promises the families of the dead to pay a million rubles. The government of the region plans to transfer the same amount to relatives. The regional payment is provided only for families of four crew members - flight attendants and aircraft who permanently resided in the region.