50 years ago, October 10, 1971, there was one of the most mysterious plane crash in the history of the USSR. Under Moscow, as a result of a bomb explosion on board, Tu-104 crashed, returned to Simferopol. 25 people died. The terrorists did not find, it was closed in two years. Gazeta.Ru with his article disassembled why it happened.
On Sunday evening, the article stated in the article, the Tu-104b plane was crashed by the Tu-104b of the Borispol Avia District of the Ukrainian Department, who flew out of Vnukovo to Simferopol. On board were 7 crew members and 18 passengers. At 20:16:31 The commander of the airliner Konstantin Krastenik contacted the dispatcher and reported that it should be in the direction of the village black dirt that was 50 km from Vnukovo. In response, the dispatcher gave the team to rise to 1500 m and at 20:16:44 I demanded to report on the height of 1200 m. However, the plane no longer answered, despite the repeated dispatcher attempts to contact him. The airliner collapsed almost immediately after takeoff ten kilometers from the airfield and completely collapsed. In the Soviet media about this catastrophe there was no information.
was originally assumed that the cause of the catastrophe was the technical malfunction, since Tu-104 aircraft were unreliable. They were designed and built in the 1950s, were created in record time on the basis of the Tu-16 long bombard. It was not just the first Soviet passenger airliner on the reactive thrust, he was one of the first in the world – after the British de Havilland Comet, Canadian Avro Jetliner and French Sud Aviation Caravelle.
Total was built 201 aircraft, but they were too “raw” and complex in management, and already in 1960 the production of Tu-104 was discontinued, and after a number of resonant air crash, they began to gradually output.
During the investigation of the plane crash, experts found signs of burning on those parts of the airliner, which was separated before the fall, besides, many fragments found TNT particles. So it was found that the disaster occurred because of the bomb explosion on board. It was originally believed that she was in the luggage compartment, but later it turned out that the charge was hidden directly in the passenger compartment, between one of the left side and wall seats and the wall, its weight was 0.4-0.8 kg TNT.