Sibir flight 1812

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Sibir flight 1812
Tupolev Tu-154M, S7 - Siberia Airlines AN1800762.jpg

A Tu-154M of Siberia Airlines
Accident summary
Accident type Accidental launch
place Black Sea , 184 km southwest of Adler , Krasnodar Territory , Russia
date October 4, 2001
Fatalities 78 (all)
Survivors 0
Aircraft
Aircraft type Tupolev Tu-154M
operator Siberia Airlines
Mark RA-85693
Departure airport Tel Aviv / Ben Gurion , Israel
Destination airport Novosibirsk , Russia
Passengers 66
crew 12
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Launch site of Flight 1812 (Black Sea)
Launch site of flight 1812
Launch site of flight 1812

Sibir Flight 1812 was a charter flight of the Russian airline Sibir (Siberia Airlines, today S7 Airlines ) from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk , which was shot down on October 4, 2001 over the Black Sea by a surface-to-air missile of the Ukrainian Navy . All 78 people on board were killed. Most of them were Israelis who wanted to visit their relatives in Russia.

Course of events

Flight 1812 took off at 10 a.m. local time from Ben Gurion Airport in the direction of Novosibirsk- Tolmatschjowo . The Tupolev Tu-154 machine was flying at an altitude of approximately 11,000 m (36,000 feet , FL360 ) over the Black Sea . At 11:44 a.m., the responsible air surveillance in Sochi lost contact with the Tu-154. At 12:03 p.m. Garik Ovanisian, the captain of an Armenian An-24 , reported a first explosion next to an aircraft in the air and a second explosion where the aircraft had crashed into the sea. Oil burned on a large white patch. An air traffic controller from the West Siberian military air traffic control saw a glowing point rapidly approaching the machine. Military air traffic control can cover very large distances using over-the-horizon radar .

The Ukrainian Navy stopped in the Black Sea a. a. Air defense maneuvers, during which various surface-to-air missiles were used to fire target drones . A 5W28 missile from an S-200 M Wega M missile system missed the drone, switched to Sibir Flight 1812 and exploded about 15 m above the aircraft. The plane was badly damaged and crashed uncontrolled into the Black Sea. The debris was spread over an area of ​​around 18 km² and some of it sank to the seabed at a depth of around 2000 m.

Rescue work

Rescue and recovery work began immediately after the crash. Several ships, including the research vessel Spassatel Prokoptschik , as well as planes and helicopters from the Russian rescue forces searched the accident site for possible survivors and recovered the bodies and debris. Photos showed the broken off cockpit of the machine.

examination

The investigation of the accident revealed that a rocket from the S-300 system had destroyed the target drone, causing the 5W28 rocket, which was also heading for this target, to search for a new target and lock onto the Tupolev, making it the new target. The explosion of the warhead, about 15 m above the aircraft, released a fragment cloud that tore countless holes (at least 350 were found during the examination of the wreckage) in the fuselage and the wings of the aircraft.

A representative of the manufacturing plant in St. Petersburg said that it is theoretically conceivable that a missile of the S-200 system could lock onto another target after losing contact with the target if it had a large radar echo and was flying relatively slowly. But this never happened in tests.

Reactions

As a first reaction, Russian President Putin thought a terrorist attack was possible and commissioned the Secretary of the National Security Council , Vladimir Ruschailo , to investigate the incident. The Russian Attorney General Vladimir Ustinov opened an investigation into suspected terrorism.

Israel immediately banned all take-offs from Ben Gurion Airport.

The US government announced that at the time in question, a few minutes before the crash, the launch of a rocket, presumably of the S-200 type, had been recorded . The missile was launched by the Ukrainian Navy during a maneuver.

On behalf of Ukraine, Defense Minister Oleksandr Kusmuk said that the Ukrainian Navy was holding a maneuver in the Black Sea, but that it was impossible for the plane to have been hit by a Ukrainian missile. The Ukrainian Navy had taken all the necessary security measures, the exercises did not begin until about an hour and a half after the crash of Flight 1812, and the distance from the scene of the accident was greater than the range of the missiles used. Finally, on October 13, 2001, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma issued a statement in which he spoke of a “coincidence of unfortunate circumstances” and accepted the preliminary results of the commission of inquiry.

The Ukrainian Defense Minister submitted his resignation; he and two of his deputies were fired. Combat shooting with the S-200, S-300 and Buk systems was suspended in Ukraine for seven years.

Compensation payments and civil litigation

Based on intergovernmental agreements, Ukraine paid US $ 200,000 each to the families of the 38 Russian and 40 Israeli victims.

Several survivors sued Ukraine for damages. The lawsuits were dismissed.

In 2004, Sibir sued the Ukrainian Defense Ministry for damages for the destruction of the Tu-154M. The lawsuit was dismissed by a Ukrainian court in 2012.

See also

Web links

Commons : Tu-154M RA-85693  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

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  9. ↑ Graphic representation of the function of an over-the-horizon radar
  10. ↑ Radar Basics - OTH-B and OTH-SW. www.radartutorial.eu, accessed on March 25, 2018 .
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  13. ↑ Maura Reynolds: Clues, Remains Sought in Siberian Airlines Crash. In: LA Times. October 6, 2001, accessed March 25, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Plane crash: Ukraine's president does not rule out shooting down. www.spiegel.de, October 5, 2001, accessed on March 25, 2018 .
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  17. ↑ a b Black Sea crash wreckage located. bbcnews, October 5, 2001, accessed on March 25, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Defense minister fired over plane crash. (No longer available online.) The Associated Press, October 25, 2001, archived from the original on July 26, 2014 ; accessed on July 19, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cjonline.com
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  22. ↑ Ukrainian court rules i-investigators failed to prove missile downed Russian passenger jet. In: kyivpost.com. August 21, 2007, accessed March 25, 2018 .
  23. ^ Kyiv court rejects S7 Airlines' appeal in case on Tu-154 crash in 2001. In: kyivpost.com. May 29, 2012, accessed March 25, 2018 .

Coordinates: 42 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  N , 37 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  E