Darin's plane crash. Darina Gromova is the main passenger of the tragic flight. Photos of remains from the crash site. Birthday gift
Information about those killed in a plane crash over Egypt appears on the Internet. The ill-fated flight collected dozens of beautiful love stories and amazing human destinies.
Darina looks at the runway, reports TK "Russia 24". Small hands, fingers spread, pressed against the glass. “The main passenger,” Tatyana’s mother tenderly captions the photo of her daughter. This will be the first flight in her life. On October 15, the Gromov family left for Egypt from Pulkovo Airport. Alexey and Tanya got married a year ago - in July they celebrated a “calico” wedding. They stayed in Sharm el-Sheikh for two weeks and celebrated Darina’s 10th month. Her photograph has already become a symbol of this tragedy.
There were 25 children on board the Kogalymavia plane, including Nastya Sheina. She turned 3 years old in March. For her parents, this trip to the sea was special. Among an Arabian fairy tale, in a popular tourist city, under the scorching sun even at this time of year, Yuri and Olga celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary and ten years since they met.
Little Nastya never left her parents for a second. The photographs show her fooling around with her mom on a sun lounger near the pool, posing with her dad near the clumsy inscription “Egypt 2015” made by hand in the sand. On October 31 at 6:40 am Olga Sheina will write on her Internet page: “We are flying home.” And she will post a photo of her husband with Nastya in his arms. In 11 minutes the plane will take off, and these frames will be the last published.
It so happened that this particular flight collected dozens of incredible and touching love stories on board. The deputy head of Pskov, Alexander Kopylov, was a widower. His meeting with Elena Melnikova completely changed his life. She helped him get over his loss. Colleagues and acquaintances noticed: when the couple was together, their eyes shone with happiness. He promised to take her to the sea and kept his promise. When it became known today that the couple was on the list of dead, no one could believe this news.
“I couldn’t believe it. And when the information was confirmed, it was a shock. He wanted to give a gift to his wife Lena Mikhailovna, who had a birthday three days ago,” says Ivan Tsetsersky, the head of Pskov.
Love also predetermined the trip for the Rodin family. Elena and Alexander went to celebrate their first wedding anniversary on the golden beaches of Sharm el-Sheikh. Three years ago, Lena vacationed in Egypt with her parents, but this year she decided to return here with her beloved man. Tomorrow was the girl's birthday.
A citizen of Belarus was rewarded at work with a trip to an Egyptian resort. Relatives say this was his first flight.
Most of the plane's passengers were St. Petersburg residents. But residents of the Leningrad, Novgorod and Tambov regions, Altai Territory, Karelia, as well as Pskov, Krasnoyarsk, Volgograd, and Tyumen also flew on board. Relatives of the victims are now traveling to St. Petersburg, where identification will take place.
Relatives of the victims have been gathering at Pulkovo Airport since the morning. They are confused and seem to not fully believe what happened.
“I came here, entered the airport. I went up to the counter and asked if there were still flights to Sharm el-Sheikh, they told me that only in the evening. That’s it,” says a relative of one of the victims.
Children and parents, brothers and sisters, friends and work colleagues were expected here. Irina came to meet her friends. At the beginning of the week they were basking in the sun together. She was supposed to fly on the same flight, but her husband persuaded her to return home a few days earlier. Yulia Kazantseva managed to avoid tragedy in the same way.
Psychologists are now working with loved ones of passengers on the Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg flight.
Along with the passengers, there were also seven crew members on board: two pilots and five flight attendants. Colleagues spoke of them as responsible and efficient workers. The captain of the aircraft was Valery Nemov, who had more than 12 thousand flight hours to his credit. Kogalymavia denies his possible guilt in the crash of the airliner.
“This person is certainly experienced, certainly respected, certainly a very honored pilot. We have no reason to assume that this was some kind of mistake on the part of the air crew,” said Oksana Golovina, a partner at THC.
At the moment, 150 bodies have already been pulled out of the rubble. Some of them have already been sent to Cairo to the city morgue. A special plane from the Ministry of Emergency Situations flew to Egypt. Russian rescuers will also take part in the operation at the crash site.
Last updated: 02.11.2015 at 23:06
A terrible tragedy in Egypt. The plane crash over Sinai, which claimed the lives of 224 people on an Airbus A321 aircraft, caused a storm of emotions in the minds of not only Russians, but also people around the world.
Reading news feeds on social networks, I come across thousands of posts and comments from users who perceive the pain of others and the grief of losing loved ones as their own. The greatest sorrow was caused by the death of a 10-month-old girl, Darina Gromova, who died along with her parents in this terrible plane crash. “,” as her mother called her before the flight, will forever remain in the memory of millions of Russians as a symbol of this terrible tragedy over the Sinai.
To support my words, I will cite several posts and comments from users posted on various social networks. Russia and the whole world are mourning, realizing the terrible tragedy of the flight Kogalymavia Airbus A321 in Egypt as a personal loss.
I read and the tears flow and flow. Captions and hashtags for photos posted a few minutes before takeoff: # we're flying home , #main passenger . I’m afraid to even imagine what people felt at the time of the fall. How the hearts of mothers broke as they hugged their babies to themselves, reassuring them and believing that everything would be fine... How men tried to protect their wives and children, realizing their own helplessness... How scary it is to realize when I myself got off the plane a couple of days agoaircraft. This is grief. For people who did not wait for their family and friends. For all of us, since everyone could end up on one side or the other.
How many lives and families are left in the sky? How many relatives were looking for flight information? Kogalymavia when he disappeared from the scoreboard... Sincere to the loved ones of the victims.Think about your life. Right now. What emotions fill you? What's in your soul? So much blackness. We splash it out on our loved ones, daily, hourly, without fear or conscience. We shout, blame, abandon, take offense at those who occupy a significant place in our hearts. Children whose parents, as it seems to us, do not allow them to live, constantly meddle in their own business, are annoying, do not understand... What if they don’t return home tomorrow? Or the husband won’t come home from work, and the guy won’t waitand stopping his beloved, hurrying to him from the institute? Or maybe a friend, once again saying “We don’t say goodbye” at the end, will no longer say “Hello”? Or someone won't return from vacation..? Every day we hear a news show host report in a cold voice about another accident or catastrophe. And we think that this is a movie, it’s far away, somewhere not in this world, this will never happen to us. But the tears somehow flow down the cheeks themselves, because they are with us. The plane that took off from Sharm El Sheikh on the morning of October 31 and never arrived at Pulkovo evening, retained 224 souls on board. They flew home to their family and friends, but never returned to where they were expected. They will no longer hug or kiss their loved ones, they will no longer say warm and kind words to their loved ones. We waste relationships with dear people on quarrels, resentments, anger... What if asking for forgiveness and forgiving tomorrow is not possible? Or say “I love you”, hug and feel the warmth of a loved one? Please think about this. Don't waste your life on something that can only destroy and break. Ask for forgiveness from a friend you haven’t talked to for a year, kiss your loved one before bed, tell your parents how grateful you are to them for what you have. Because fate will not wait until you finally have a free moment for this.
Happy memory to those killed in the disaster in Egypt and deepest condolences to their families. We all mourn with you.
This terrible tragedy affected each and every one of us. We mourn with the whole country... Our soul is torn with grief .
The photo of the baby, posted by her mother with a gentle caption, touches the depths of the soul. This baby was only 10 months old... God, her whole life would have been ahead of her! Tears, pain... I can’t imagine how people who have lost their families, children, babies will survive this grief! Someone came into VK at 6 something... and that’s it. And there is no man! I didn’t know any of these people, but my thoughts are with the relatives of the victims! There are 27 children on the list of dead! How? For what? These kids haven't even seen life and ra reach! I watched on the news, those who greeted me at Pulkovo airport hoped until the very end that there would be survivors! And when they realized what had happened, that they would never see them, would not hug them, would not look them in the eyes....tears, hysterics.....How terrible it is! Take care of your loved ones! Appreciate every second spent with them! And remember, every day could be your last! We remember, we mourn... may you rest in peace! Peter, hold on! We are with you! Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg 10/31/2015. Kogalymavia, on board Airbus A321, flight 9268 - 224 dead.
Recent incidents make us think that any day and any moment can be the last... You never know at what moment everything can end. I’m terribly afraid of airplanes, I’m afraid of flying myself, and I worry even more when my loved ones fly. And when something like October 31, 2015 happens, I can’t find a place for myself. You just understand that you don’t need to put off your life for later, you need to appreciate it here and now, appreciate what you have, your family, friends, every moment you live, every ray of sunshine.tsa, smile, joy and sadness, you shouldn’t spoil relationships with loved ones over trifles, you shouldn’t waste time and energy on insults and unnecessary fuss, because no one has ever taken anything with them from here... God, how scary it is, here To leave like that without saying goodbye... Without saying the main words to someone... It's sad. Tears when I see a photo of the little girl who was on board... Flight 9268.
You read lists of names, years of birth, look at photographs... Someone was chatting on VK just yesterday at half past seven in the morning, someone called their loved ones and asked to meet them at the airport... You get goosebumps and tears well up. Strength to the loved ones of the victims.
# Darinagromova Peter I'm grieving. I look at this photo and my head is filled with horror. Now my daughter is 10 months old, just like Darina was this little angel. I'm very very upset. I'm crying.Usually if it happens in the air. Nothing can be prevented anymore. When so many human destinies have already been changed forever by this day. Someone will start talking about whether it was necessary to bankrupt a large carrier? Because of which, the way to the market was opened, few people from well-known regional airlines with an unknown fleet of worn-out aircraft. But someone did not notice this, because the Western imposed values of celebrating Halloween are more dear to them than the grief now of the entire country as a whole. Life is such a thing. Not every grief is your grief. You shouldn't judge such people. Because nothing will change. Judge those who allow such things to happen. P.S Try to tell your loved ones every day that you love them. No one is safe.
Can't look at the photo DArina Gromova in an Aeroport" G great passenger" . A mother's heart is breaking. How painful it is, along with everyone who didn’t make it. Pleasant events such as a long-awaited vacation should not be associated with grief. Tragedy. Pain. Children shouldn't die at all. And big kids who already have children of their own shouldn’t either. Our deepest condolences to the family. Very painful.
Today is a day of mourning in Russia, for the second day the entire country is mourning the 224 people who died in the terrible tragedy. Just think about what happened!! Whole families flew from the sea!!! 27 children...27 little angels...I don't understand one thing! People post photographs of little Darina Gromova and write words of support to relatives and friends. And it is perceived as if it is currently “fashionable”. Well, I need to check in, and I published a photo in a dark color! Have you gone crazy???? My The family can’t come to their senses for the second day, friends call and write to me asking where are you? Have you arrived already?? Yes, you understand!!! This is simply a tribute to memory, a sign that people are not indifferent to what happened. It seems to me that it is “fashionable” today to write about the fact that thousands of people are being killed in the world, military operations are taking place in Ukraine, children are dying of cancer, and here you are with your airplanes. Yes, I'm with the plane in the feed! Because I care, because it’s scary! There is no speculation of tragedy here, this is a grief that happened mainly to the residents of our city. Have respect, behave like people! R eys 9268, “The main passenger” of Kogalymavia.
October 31, 2015, flight Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg. Someone looks through photos on their phone, imagining how they will tell their family and friends about their vacation. Married couples calm down children who are acting too violently in the morning - and are probably afraid to fly. Departure was on schedule, we headed straight into the sky. The very next day, the media circulated a photo of the “main passenger” - ten-month-old Darina Gromova. This photo will become a kind of symbol of the fateful flight Airbus 321, from which none of the 224 people returned alive.
"Flight in normal mode"
The plane took off safely and began to climb at 6:50 Moscow time. Everything is going as normal, when suddenly after 23 minutes the dispatchers lose contact with the crew.
Meanwhile, St. Petersburg Pulkovo Airport reports that the flight is delayed “for technical reasons.” Time is postponed once, rescheduled twice... In Russia, they try not to think about the worst and nervously wait for messages from relatives: about an emergency landing, or about anything, as long as they write. When the flowers had already begun to fade, and the message about the next flight postponement was on the board, the relatives’ nerves could not stand it: calls began pouring in to the Kogalymavia airline and the tour operator Brisco. “We’re figuring everything out,” “Don’t worry,” people in different authorities heard.
And then came the news that flashed through everyone’s head, but they refused to believe. It was not immediately known that everyone had died. One of the rescuers who immediately moved to the scene after the crash reported that he heard the voices of passengers coming from under the wreckage of the liner. Within minutes it became clear: I hadn’t heard, it seemed.
Main passenger
A photograph of ten-month-old Darina Gromova from Gatchina, taken at Pulkovo airport, seemed to have gone around all the well-known Russian media and was circulated on social networks. The photograph became one of the symbols of that terrible tragedy.
Son, Alexey, wanted to be a pilot. Only I didn’t allow it,” Darina’s grandmother Elena later told Life.
Alexey's father was a military pilot for 30 years. The young man himself graduated from a technical specialty and went to work for an IT company. Here he met Tatyana. The young people got married a little more than a year before the tragedy. The young man’s social network page, which is still accessible, contains many photos of the couple in love, taken on their wedding day.
Tatyana called her daughter “the main passenger.” Before the flight from Pulkovo, she photographed a girl who was pressing her hands against the glass and posted the picture on social networks.
Darina’s grandmother suggested that parents not take their child on the flight: he would be scared and would not tolerate it well. But they didn’t listen: the child needed to bask in the sun.
"I won't live without her"
October 31st was a tragedy for thousands of people. Svetlana Dudochkina’s husband, Anatoly, was unable to fly with his wife on vacation that time. The couple had been to Egypt more than once, so the woman knew quite well how to behave at the resort. His warning seemed even more strange.
It was the first time she went on vacation without me. I told her that if something happens, I won’t survive without her. “I don’t want to live anymore, I’m not interested,” Anatoly said after the crash.
The woman went on vacation in the company of her daughter and two young grandchildren. But the daughter decided to stay another day or two, since there was an opportunity to rest longer. As a result, only Svetlana of the whole family boarded the fateful flight.
Birthday gift
On October 27, the common-law wife of the then deputy head of Pskov, Alexandra Kopylova, celebrated her birthday. He bought trips for himself and his beloved, Elena Melnikova. They didn’t want to let me go from work, but the deputy head of the city persuaded me to do it. He argued that the reason was too weighty.
The man met his future common-law wife at work. The fact is that Elena is the head of the personnel department in the Pskov City Duma. Alexander’s wife died several years earlier, Elena was divorced. They had been together for about a year at that point.
All the time on vacation, Elena talked on social networks about how they had a very good rest - swimming, sunbathing and generally having a blast. I went online for the last time three hours before the fateful flight.
“A little more and I’ll leave aviation”
Senior flight attendant, 38-year-old Valentina Martsevich, who devoted 12 years to the sky, planned to retire from aviation in the near future. I wanted peace of mind and made plans for a calm family life. Valentina's husband, Maxim, is the commander of the aircraft. At that moment he was on a China Airlines flight.
Valentina herself is from Anapa, she was working at the Krasnodar airport when she met her future husband. Soon they moved to Moscow together. He is always on the flight, she is on the next flight. Tired of seeing my husband and family in fits and starts.
On October 5, her birthday, she flew home to hug her mother. Friends later recalled that she behaved quite strangely: she spoke strangely, smiled strangely, and took a lot of pictures.
While returning to Moscow, shortly before the fateful flight, the woman got scared for the first time in her life while boarding. She told her friends how the plane was shaking and she was afraid that the pilots would not land the plane successfully.
"Fluffy, I'm waiting"
Flight attendant Marina Okhotnikova was supposed to meet her steward husband Andrei Belomestnov at Domodedovo on November 1. The plan looked like this: Andrey lands in Pulkovo, rests, and then goes to Moscow as a passenger. 20 minutes after its arrival in the capital, it lands. The young people were planning an unforgettable weekend.
The couple had a tradition: all four years that they were together, Andrei sent his beloved SMS during such “intersections” with the same text: “Fluffy, I’m already waiting for you.” This time there was no message. Andrei was supposed to turn 30 in November...
Versions
Experts considered four main versions of the plane crash: a technical malfunction, a pilot error, that the plane was shot down, and an explosion.
Technical problem
The first version that investigators began to consider was a technical malfunction. Allegedly the liner had defects. For example, 14 years before the tragedy, in November 2001, at Cairo airport, the airliner landed unsuccessfully and hit the ground with its tail. At that time it was still owned by Middle East Airlines. After the incident, the aircraft was repaired and sold. After that, it was chartered by various airlines until it finally “settled” at Kogalymavia in 2012.
You can say whatever you want about this airline, but any aircraft of any carrier undergoes inspection before a new flight. In addition, the boards undergo technical checks. So, the engines of the airliner were examined five days before the tragedy. And it is unlikely that the experts would have missed such a significant malfunction that could have caused the plane to crash. This point of view was confirmed by the airline. In addition, experienced pilots have repeatedly said that none of the crew members would risk their own lives, but would simply refuse to fly if in doubt.
Another fact speaks against the version of a malfunction: on the eve of the crash, the Airbus was flying from Sharm el-Sheikh to Samara and back. After that, it underwent maintenance at the Egyptian airport; no critical problems were recorded.
A week after the tragedy, IAC representatives said that until the recording of the recorders stopped, the flight proceeded as normal; information about failures of the aircraft’s systems and components was not recorded on the parametric recorder.
Crew error
This version became the second. Allegedly, the pilots could panic and behave incorrectly in a critical situation. This version was denied by the Federal Air Transport Agency on the same day. PIC Valery Nemov was originally a military pilot, and after retirement (the man was 48 years old) he retrained as a civil aviation pilot at the AmurAir training center in Turkey. His total flight experience is 3,682 hours, of which 1,100 hours were as an aircraft commander.
The co-pilot, 45-year-old Sergei Trukhachev, had 5,641 flight hours under his belt - more than the PIC. He underwent special training in the Czech Republic to fly the A321.
The Kogalymavia pilots themselves ruled out the possibility of an error: they posted a letter on the Internet just a few hours after the tragedy, where they claimed that there could be no error.
Shot down
Shortly after the crash, ISIS militants claimed responsibility for the plane crash. They even published a video where the aircraft was allegedly shot down. It soon turned out that the video was nothing more than a fake, and no one shot down the Russian airliner.
After a preliminary inspection of the wreckage of the plane, it became clear to experts that no one had fired at it.
The plane broke up in the air. Initially, the tail section was torn off, and then the entire airliner began to disintegrate. The wreckage of the aircraft was located at a distance of about 40 km from each other, the tail and nose were at a distance of 5 km.
Terrorist attack
This version is a priority. The media began to write that there was a bomb on board a few hours after the tragedy. Within a month, the fact of the explosion was confirmed by Russian experts. Thus, on November 16, 2015, the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, at a meeting in the Kremlin, officially announced for the first time that what happened was a terrorist attack.
It was initially assumed that the bomb was planted between the passenger seats in the 30th row. However, later experts came to the conclusion that an improvised explosive device with a capacity of up to 1 kg in TNT equivalent was located in the tail section, next to the baby strollers. A timer installed in the bomb counted down how many more minutes the 224 people would live. After the explosion, the tail section of the airliner was torn off, and it went into an uncontrolled dive.
For a long time, Egyptian officials did not officially recognize the incident as a terrorist attack (according to one version, for fear of multimillion-dollar lawsuits from relatives of the victims). Cairo called for waiting for the official results of the investigation, which, by the way, are still missing. However, in February 2017, the representative of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Ahmed Abu Zeid, somewhat admitted that a terrorist attack had occurred on board.
Dozens or even hundreds of people became victims of terrorist operations, including as a result of the crash of a Russian airliner in the Sinai, he said.
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Ten-month-old Darina Gromova was the youngest of 29 children who died in the plane crash. The bodies of her parents were also discovered.
The Gromov family - Alexey, Tatyana and their ten-month-old daughter Darina - are on the list to identify those killed in the October 31 plane crash in Sinai.
Literally a few hours before the Ministry of Emergency Situations sent a special flight to St. Petersburg on November 1, it became known that the body of the youngest passenger and her parents had been found. 10-month-old Darina Gromova, who became a victim of a plane crash in Egypt, was the smallest child on board the plane.
Darina Gromova was named the first “main passenger” by her mother Tatyana when she posted a photo of the girl at the airport on Instagram. It was the first time the little girl saw planes so close, and watched in amazement as the huge machines moved across the airfield. Darina had to make the first big trip in her life - from St. Petersburg to Egypt.
Darina’s grandmother admitted in a conversation with LifeNews that she was very worried about how the baby would survive the flight, and offered the young couple - Alexey and Tatyana - to leave their 10-month-old granddaughter with her for the duration of the trip, but they refused . Also the woman toldAzala that her husband and Darina’s grandfather was a military pilot and retired with the rank of colonel. Her son Alexey I also wanted to become a pilot, but she didn’t allow him. As a result, he went to work for an IT company.
Airbus 321, flight 9268 Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg, crashed on October 31. Shortly after taking off from the Egyptian airport, the crew of the airliner stopped communicating. It was reported that the plane dropped sharply by 1.5 kilometers, after which it disappeared from radar screens. Before the pilot lost contact
