On board the Tu-154 of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, according to preliminary data, a technical malfunction arose during a height of height, a source in emergency services told Interfax . "Previously, during a height set, the crew was faced with a technical fault of a critical nature, which led to a disaster," the source said. About 10 in the morning in Moscow, the Interfax source said that a bird could get into the engine of the aircraft.

Residents of the capital of Ukraine Kyiv carry flowers to the Russian Embassy on Sunday, expressing condolences to the people of Russia in connection with a plane crash in Sochi, which claimed 92 people. RIA Novosti was reported in the press service of the diplomatic mission. "Kievans condolen the catastrophe of the Russian Tu -154 airliner in the Black Sea. People and candles carry flowers and candles to the Russian Embassy, ​​leave commemorative notes," the embassy said.

The Tu-154 crew’s negotiations appeared on the aircraft forks, the fragments of which were found in the Black Sea, and Adler's airport dispatchers, Vesti FM radio station reports. Users claim that this is a fragment of the negotiations of flight 85572, which belonged to the Ministry of Defense. Judging by it, there were no emergency situations before departure on board. Ground services allowed the take -off.

The doctor and philanthropist Elizabeth Glinka (Dr. Lisa) broke on board the Tu-154 fallen into the Black Sea . Messages about her death were checked for a long time: she was on the list of passengers, but the media claimed that she could not go through pre -flight control.

Forward Magnitogorsk Metallurg Sergey Mozyakin became the best sniper of the hockey club in his history. In the match of the regular championship of the Continental Hockey League against Barys, which ended in Astana with a score of 5: 3 in favor of the owners of the ice, the captain of the guests abandoned the puck, which became for him the 220th in the Metallurg sweater.

Tu -154 is a mediumagistral passenger aircraft, the most common liner of domestic aviation (more than 1000 aircraft were produced). According to the designers of the KB Tupolev, which is why the largest number of disasters and incidents are associated with it. They note that not a single accident occurred through the fault of the aircraft. Either weather conditions, or the human factor, or the defects of the engine, and most often - the totality of the above factors have always intervened.

With the onset of dark time of day, officials and sources of agencies summed up the first day of the search operation at the Tu-154 crash site in the Black Sea and made assumptions about the prospects. The Minister of Transport, the head of the government commission, Maxim Sokolov stated that the operation could take a long time . The RIA source said that the fuselage is at a depth of 60 meters, and the majority of the bodies of the dead are hoped inside it.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case in connection with the collapse of the Tu-154 in the Krasnodar Territory. The case was opened under an article on violation of flight rules. Interfax reports that investigators seize the Tu-154 pre-flight documentation, interrogate the officials who led the flight, as well as the training aircraft for the departure of the technical staff.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sent a telegram of condolences to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin in connection with the collapse of the Tu-154 military aircraft , the State Agency Sana and GOSTELEDIO reports. “With a huge regret, we received the news of the collapse of the Russian Tu -154 aircraft, on the board of which were our dear friends who wanted to divide the joy of victory and holidays with us and the inhabitants of Aleppo,” the telegram text quotes RIA Novosti .

The fall of the Tu-154 in the Black Sea immediately after takeoff from the airport could precede an extreme situation on board, for example, the capture of the aircraft, the former shift of the main center of the Unified System of the Russian Air Force Organization Vitaly Andreev told RIA Novosti . An expert with almost half a century of experience in aviation believes that if the commander refuses equipment, it would be possible to report on the situation on board the dispatchers.

The youngest son of the President of Belarus, 12-year-old Nikolai Lukashenko said that he did not feel much desire to become a successor to his father as head of state. He stated this in an interview with a peer from Russia - Eugene Grishin from Primorye. The plot of Grishin’s visit to Belarus was shown by the first channel of national television.

The head of the Culture Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Anton Gubankov and the artistic director of the ensemble named after Alexandrov Valery Khalilov were aboard the Tu-154 fallen into the Black Sea. In total, 64 participants in the Alexandrov ensemble appear on the lists , TASS recalls. They flew to Syria to congratulate the Russian military on the New Year. According to some reports, the concert was supposed to take place in Aleppo.

The version of the Tu-154 plane crash in the Black Sea is not considered as the main one due to a number of circumstances: initially the plane should not have landed in Sochi at all, and until departure he kept under the reinforced security, the TASS source in the special services said. The interlocutor of the agency said that the Tu-154 flew out of the Chkalovsky airfield in the Moscow region, where passengers and baggage took place a thorough inspection.

On Saturday and Sunday, New Year's performances for children should have taken place in the Ice Palace in Pskov, but citizens were not destined to get on them: the show was canceled, and their organizers disappeared, Interfax reports with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The police received several statements from the residents of the Pskov and the Pskov region, who managed to purchase tickets for the event as part of the Santa Claus tour.

The Tu-154 Ministry of Defense plane fell into the Black Sea. On board were the musicians of the Aleksandrov ensemble and journalists flying to the Khmeimim base in Syria - only 91 people. The wreckage was found off the coast near Sochi. "Channel One" called the names of journalists who flew on a broken plane. According to Interfax , 91 people on board the aircraft: 83 passengers and 8 crew members.