How it was 22.01.2002 (2002)

The theme of the program "Rocket over the Black Sea" 2001. The death of the TU-154 airliner.

On October 4, 2001, news agencies around the world reported shocking news - a TU-154 passenger airliner flying from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk fell into the Black Sea two hundred kilometers from the coast of Crimea.

The first versions: engine failure, pilot error.

There are also suggestions - a terrorist attack.

Incidentally, it turns out that at the same time, Ukrainian air defense exercises were taking place in this area.

On the same day, a state commission headed by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, V. Rushailo, urgently flies to Sochi.

At first, timidly, then with increasing confidence, suggestions are made that the passenger plane ... was shot down by a Ukrainian SS-300 missile.

Official Kyiv categorically denies this version.

However, the commission comes to the conclusion: the plane was shot down.

A few days later, Ukrainian President L. Kuchma officially admits the guilt of the Ukrainian air defense in the plane crash and offers his apologies and condolences to the relatives of the victims.

In the studio: Igor Volkov, press secretary of Siberia Airlines, Valeriy Chernyaev, Deputy Chairman of the IAC Commission, Arkady Milman, Plenipotentiary Minister of the Embassy of the State of Israel in Russia, Andrey Kuznetsov, head of the shift of dispatchers of the Sochi flight control department, Aleksandr Alekseevich Lemansky, general designer of the Almaz Scientific and Production Association.

Chronicle: Ben Gurion Airport, rescuers in the airplane cockpit, Russian Emergencies Ministry operational footage of the crash site, launch of two missiles over the sea, radar screen, missile shoots down target, command of military exercises, Ukrainian military man talks about missile launches, plane crash schedule, relatives of the deceased passengers talk, Leonid Kuchma, 2nd President of Ukraine.