The group died in a plane crash. The day the music died

A person's life can end at any moment. Unfortunately, people do not always die of old age. The disease can also take away the young. Hundreds of people die every year in car and plane crashes. And, of course, celebrities are no exception. We invite you to remember them.

Paul Walker

For a long time they could not believe in his death. Fans and close stars did not understand how a man who repeatedly performed the most difficult stunts on the set of the movie "Fast and the Furious" could die in a car accident.

The tragic event happened on November 30, 2013. A charity car show was held in the Philippines. Paul's friend Roger Rodas was driving the car. The car drove into a pole, immediately caught fire. The men did not even have the slightest opportunity to get out of the cabin.

Shortly before his death, Paul began acting in the next part of the film "Fast and the Furious". Episodes with him were not filmed to the end. However, in memory of the actor, the film crew ended the film.

James Dean

A truly mystical story is connected with the car of this actor. James bought a brand new Porsche just before his death. He never ceased to admire him. His friends somehow felt something was wrong and tried to dissuade him from driving, but Dean did not listen to them. 09/30/1955 on one of the California highways, James's Porsche collided with another car and smashed to smithereens.

The sad story of the car did not end there. She was bought out by a fan of Dean. She spent a fabulous amount on her restoration. But she also failed to drive enough in the idol's car: on the very first trip she had an accident and received a neck fracture that was incompatible with life. More "Porsche" was not restored. However, parts from it were delivered to other cars. And this also determined their fate. Several drivers of vehicles carrying parts from James's car were killed or injured in the crash. To top it all off, the Porsche mysteriously disappeared while being driven to a Los Angeles workshop.

Grace Kelly

On September 13, 1982, the most stylish princess had a stroke. At this time, she was driving a car, in the cabin of which her daughter Stephanie was also sitting. The car fell off the mountain. Luckily, Stephanie survived with a broken neck. But Grace herself could not recover from the injuries and died a day later in the hospital.

Diana

Her death still causes a lot of controversy. The tragedy happened on August 31, 1997. Diana herself was in the car (in the main photo), at that time already the former wife of Prince Charles, her lover, the son of a billionaire from Egypt, Dodi Al-Fayed, and the driver Henri Paul. Official sources said that Henri could not cope with the management. The car drove into the tunnel support.

Lisa Lopez

A member of the popular girl group TLC is addicted to alcohol. The reason to take up the bottle was problems in his personal life. But one day she was going to rehabilitation, which she decided to undergo in Honduras. She never reached her destination. Lisa died on April 25, 2002. Attempts to avoid a collision with a truck that had entered the oncoming lane were unsuccessful.

Gennady Bachinsky

The famous DJ was Sergey Stillavin's partner in the morning show, which was aired on Radio Maximum. Gennady died at the age of 36. A car accident happened in the Tver region on 01/12/2008.

Valery Kharlamov

This is a true legend of Soviet hockey. Valery more than once got into an accident. The first accident happened in 1976. Doctors believed that he was unlikely to be able to return to the ice, since for a couple of months he himself could not walk. But Valery shocked everyone. In the ranks of the national team, he was in 7 months. But the accident, which happened 5 years later, did not end so “successfully”. On August 27, 1981, at the 74th kilometer of the Leningradskoye Highway, the car driven by Kharlamov's wife skidded on a slippery road, and she collided with a truck. Valery, his wife and her cousin died immediately.

Viktor Tsoi

The death of this musician caused a real shock to his fans. Several people could not cope with the shock and committed suicide. Viktor died on August 15, 1990 in Latvia. He just fell asleep at the wheel. As a result, his "Moskvich", moving at a fairly high speed, drove into the bus. The 28-year-old rocker died instantly.

Leonid Bykov

During the investigation, the experts found that the actor was to blame for his death only himself. Bykov drove into the oncoming lane, overtaking another car. And he made a fatal mistake. The star of the movie "Only Old Men Go to Battle" crashed on the Minsk-Kyiv highway on 04/11/1079.

Marina Golub

Another person is to blame for the death of this actress. On October 9, 2012, Marina was returning home by taxi after the performance, when a Cadillac drove into it at great speed, the driver of which violated traffic rules. The culprit of the tragedy fled the scene of the accident. But he did not escape punishment.

Alexandrov Ensemble and Dr. Liza

"Aleksandrovtsy" in December 2016 went to Syria with a concert. On board the plane, not counting the crew and members of the ensemble, were journalists from various TV channels, 8 military personnel and Elizaveta Glinka, a philanthropist and just a wonderful woman. Having taken off from the airport near Moscow, the plane refueled in Adler, and after a while it simply disappeared from the radar.

"Locomotive"

On September 7, 2011, the hockey team flew to Minsk, where the first game of the KHL season was to take place. The plane was only the hockey players themselves and crew members, a total of 45 people. Almost immediately, the unthinkable happened. The plane gained a small height, but then crashed into a radio beacon, crashed and exploded. Only two did not die immediately: hockey player Galimov and flight engineer Sizov. The first died on September 12 from burns that covered 90% of the body.

Alexander Kulikov

This man was a treasure trove of talent. He is remembered as a film producer and actor. Alexander was also a musician. On November 28, 2016, he went by helicopter to shoot the video for Rodina in Belogorsk. Not having overcome even halfway, the car fell. Kulikov received injuries incompatible with life and died immediately.

Viktor Chistyakov

Few people remember this Soviet artist today. But musicologists believe that he is the ancestor of such a genre as parody.

Victor was not punctual. On September 8, 1972, he overslept again. But the flight, which he was supposed to go to the concert, was delayed, and he managed to board the plane. About 100 people died in the crash, including children. Chistyakov was also included in this list.

Alia

It was said that this singer would earn fame for Beyoncé. But she died at 22. In 2005, during the summer, Alia and the film crew were in the Bahamas. The shooting of the video was completed ahead of schedule. The singer really wanted to go home. But the light-engine aircraft, into which the whole group was loaded, could not overcome even 100 meters. He fell due to overload. Everyone on board was killed.

Dry statistics show that the chance of becoming a victim of a plane crash is much lower than dying while traveling on any other mode of transport.

Aviation accidents and disasters, however, always cause great resonance and frighten citizens. The significant number of victims is shocking: as a rule, in the crash of a modern airliner, the death toll goes to dozens.

Here, no statistics help: emotions take precedence over reason.

In the face of a plane crash, everyone is equal: ordinary citizens, politicians, sports and show business stars.

AiF.ru recalled the tragedy, the victims of which were Soviet and Russian celebrities.

Hockey team of the Air Force MVO

At the dawn of the history of Soviet hockey, the VVS MVO club was among the best teams in the USSR championship.

The patron of the pilot team was Aviation General Vasily Stalin, son of Joseph Stalin.

On January 7, 1950, hockey players flew on a Li-2 plane to Sverdlovsk, where they were supposed to play the next championship match against the local Dzerzhinets.

Li-2, identical to the crashed one. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org / RuthAS

The plane crashed while landing at Koltsovo airport in adverse weather conditions.

6 crew members and 13 passengers were killed. Among the dead were Goalkeeper of the USSR national team Khariy Mellups, brother of the famous Soviet coach Anatoly Tarasov Yuri Tarasov, one of the best Soviet hockey players of that time Ivan Novikov, USSR champion in ice hockey and winner of the USSR Cup in bandy Boris Bocharnikov.

Miraculously survived the legendary football player and hockey player Vsevolod Bobrov who missed the fatal flight.

Parodist Viktor Chistyakov

Actor Viktor Chistyakov is sometimes called a pioneer in the genre of musical parody in the USSR. The unique voice allowed Chistyakov to equally accurately reproduce the parts of both famous male singers and female singers.

Viktor Chistyakov. Photo: commons.wikimedia.org

Appearing on the stage in the late sixties, Chistyakov in a matter of months turned into a star, without which the main holiday concerts and Blue Lights could not do.

Between 1968 and 1972, Chistyakov gave more than 1,000 concerts, and his popularity only grew.

On May 18, 1972, Chistyakov flew from Moscow's Vnukovo airport to Kharkov, where he was supposed to perform at the anniversary of the Operetta Theatre.

The artist was late to the airport, but the flight was delayed. The crew, having learned that Chistyakov himself should fly with them, asked to return the already removed ladder.

During landing approach at the airport of Kharkov, the An-10 aircraft broke into pieces and crashed to the ground. Everyone on board died: 115 passengers and 7 crew members.

The government commission determined that the cause of the accident was the destruction of the center section of the wing in the air due to the rupture of the lower panel of the center section, caused by fatigue cracks in the stringers and skin. After this disaster, the operation of the An-10 aircraft was suspended, and then completely stopped.

Victor Chistyakov was 28 years old.

An-10A board USSR-11215. Photo: commons.wikimedia.org

Football team "Pakhtakor"

On August 11, 1979, two Tu-134A airliners collided in the sky near Dneprodzerzhinsk at an altitude of 8400 m, following flights Chelyabinsk - Chisinau and Tashkent - Minsk.

The cause of the disaster was the mistakes made by air traffic controllers. 178 people on board the two planes were killed.

Among the dead were 17 members of the Pakhtakor football team (Tashkent).

Among them is a 24-year-old Vladimir Fedorov, bronze medalist of the 1976 Olympics and European champion among youth teams in 1976, 26-year-old Mikhail An, captain of the USSR youth team that won the European Championship, and many other talented athletes.

This tragedy is considered one of the darkest pages in the history of both aviation and world football.

The collision of two Tu-134s over Dneprodzerzhinsk, the tail section of one of the aircraft. Photo: commons.wikimedia.org

Journalist Artem Borovik

On March 9, 2000, the Yak-40D airliner, flying VGV9651 on the Moscow-Kyiv route, barely left the runway of Sheremetyevo Airport, crashed to the ground and completely collapsed. All nine people on board were killed.

Artyom Borovik. Photo: commons.wikimedia.org

Among them was 39-year-old Artem Borovik, one of the most popular Russian journalists, president of the Sovershenno Sekretno publishing holding.

Son of the Soviet political observer Heinrich Borovik, Artem Borovik worked as a journalist in various Soviet publications, including the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya and the magazine Ogonyok, on whose instructions he traveled to Afghanistan several times. In 1988, as a journalistic experiment, he served for some time in the US Army, about which he then wrote a book.

In the nineties, the newspaper and TV program "Top Secret" were very popular. The death of Artem Borovik shocked people, there was talk that the journalist was the victim of a premeditated murder. However, experts came to the conclusion that the crash occurred due to a combination of two factors: pilot error and the negligence of technical services that did not treat the aircraft with anti-icing fluid.

Politician Alexander Lebed

April 28, 2002 in the area of ​​Lake Oiskoe, on the Buibinskiy Pass (Krasnoyarsk Territory), a Mi-8 helicopter crashed. The governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Lebed, died from his injuries while flying to the opening of a new ski slope.

Fame came to General Lebed in August 1991, when during the so-called "GKChP putsch" he went over to the side Boris Yeltsin.

Then Lebed participated in a peacekeeping mission in Transnistria, after which he went into politics.

In 1996, Lebed once again helped Yeltsin: after finishing third in the first round of the presidential election, he called on his supporters to support the incumbent president. In exchange for this, Alexander Lebed received the post of Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation "with special powers."

In this capacity, in the summer of 1996, Lebed, on behalf of the Russian leadership, signed the infamous Khasavyurt Accords. In October 1996, he was dismissed.

In the summer of 1998, Alexander Lebed was elected governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

The cause of the disaster, in which the governor died, was the collision of a helicopter with power lines.

The crew of the helicopter that survived the crash were put on trial and sentenced to various terms of punishment.

Showman Artur Tumasyan

On May 3, 2006, an Airbus A320-211 airliner of Armavia airlines, operating flight RNV967 on the Yerevan-Sochi route, crashed into the Black Sea 6 kilometers from the coast while landing at the Sochi airport. All 113 people on board were killed: 105 passengers and 8 crew members.

Among the dead was the producer of the TV show “Comedy club”, the author of the scripts for the films “The Best Film” and “The Best Film-2”, the founder and member of the KVN team “New Armenians” Artur Tumasyan.

The 32-year-old showman did not like to fly on airplanes, but his occupation left him practically no choice.

The commission of the Interstate Aviation Committee, which investigated the crash, concluded that the cause of the crash was crew error.

General Gennady Troshev

On September 14, 2008, the Boeing 737-505 airliner of Aeroflot-Nord, which was making a regular passenger flight SU821 on the Moscow-Perm route, crashed while landing at the Perm airport. All 88 people on board were killed: 82 passengers and 6 crew members.

Among the dead was an adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, Hero of Russia, Colonel-General Gennady Troshev.

Troshev gained fame by commanding a group of Russian troops in the North Caucasus during the fighting in Chechnya and Dagestan.

Troshev flew to Perm as an honored guest for a sambo tournament together with the first vice-president of the All-Russian Sambo Federation Vladimir Pogodin.

The conclusion of the commission for the investigation of the disaster was as follows: the immediate cause of the crash was the loss of spatial orientation by the crew. Also, an insufficient level of pilot training and a low level of organization of flight and technical operation of aircraft of this airline were revealed.

Hockey club "Lokomotiv" (Yaroslavl)

On September 7, 2011, the Yak-42D airliner of the Yak Service airline, which was making an international charter flight on the Yaroslavl-Minsk route, crashed a few seconds after taking off from the ground and was completely destroyed. Part of the debris and the tail section fell into the Tunoshna River. Of the 45 people on board, only aviation and radio maintenance engineer Alexander Sizov.

On this flight to Minsk for the first match of the new season of the Continental Hockey League, the hockey team Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl) flew.

It included hockey players from Russia, Belarus, Sweden, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Germany, Canada.

The death of Lokomotiv became a real shock for hockey fans all over the world. Quite young talents have passed away, such as 20-year-old world champions among youth teams Daniil Sobchenko and Yuri Urychev, and the most experienced athletes who played in the NHL: 36-year-old Pavol Demitra, 37 years old Karlis Skrastinsh, 36 years old Ruslan Salei.

According to the conclusions of the commission, the direct cause of the crash was the erroneous actions of the aircraft commander or the co-pilot (it was not possible to establish for certain), who involuntarily pressed the brake pedals during the takeoff run. This led to the occurrence of a dive moment, which did not allow the aircraft to raise the nose wheel at the right time and start lifting off the runway. The plane managed to get off the ground from the ground, rolled out of the runway, but, having risen a few meters, began to fall to the left and fell. Serious shortcomings were identified in the retraining of pilots for flights on this modification of the aircraft.

Elizaveta Glinka (Doctor Lisa) and artists of the Alexandrov Choir

On the morning of December 25, 2016, the Tu-154B-2 airliner of the Russian Air Force, flying on the route Moscow - Sochi - Latakia, crashed 70 seconds after taking off from Sochi airport.

The plane crashed into the Black Sea, killing 84 passengers and 8 crew members.

Among the passengers were 65 members of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A.V. Aleksandrov, who flew to Syria to hold a concert for Russian military personnel at the Khmeimim airbase.

perished and artistic the head of the ensemble, Lieutenant General Valery Khalilov.

On the same flight, a public figure and human rights activist, head of the Fair Aid Foundation, Elizaveta Glinka, commonly known as Doctor Liza, flew to Syria.

She repeatedly visited the territory of Syria with humanitarian missions: she was engaged in the delivery and distribution of medicines, and the organization of medical assistance to the civilian population of Syria. So this time, Elizaveta Petrovna accompanied a batch of medicines to Syria for the Tishrin University Hospital in Latakia.

On May 31, 2017, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a mistake by the aircraft commander was a possible cause of the crash: “According to the results of the investigation, it was established that the cause of the accident could be a violation of the spatial orientation (situational awareness) of the aircraft commander, which led to his erroneous actions with the aircraft controls ". The investigation of the Investigative Committee into the fact of the disaster by the beginning of March 2019 was not completed.

11/04/2010

The world's first fatal air crash is believed to have occurred on September 17, 1908, when Tom Selfridge died in an airplane piloted by one of the Wright brothers. The last one was on April 10 near Smolensk. Over these hundred years, air crashes have claimed many lives, including quite famous and prominent people.

1. Yuri Gagarin(34 years). First cosmonaut. On March 27, 1968, he died during a training flight on a MiG-15UTI aircraft with instructor pilot Vladimir Seregin. Until now, there are many versions of the causes and circumstances of the disaster.

2. Valery Chkalov(34 years). Test pilot, made the first non-stop flight over the North Pole from Moscow to Vancouver. On December 15, 1938, he died during the first test of the I-180 fighter. Chkalov's daughter Valeria Valeryevna put forward a version that the death of her father was organized by the NKVD.

3. Alexander Lebed(52 years old) (on the picture). General, politician, who signed the Khasavyurt agreements on a peaceful settlement in Chechnya with Aslan Maskhadov. Since 1998 - Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. On April 28, 2002, a Mi-8 helicopter crashed after colliding with a power line. The State Commission concluded that the cause of the disaster was "unsatisfactory preparation of the crew for the flight."

4. Evgeny Petrov(39 years). Writer (real name Kataev, brother of Valentin Kataev), co-author of Ilya Ilf (“12 chairs”, “Golden Calf”). On July 2, 1942, the plane, on which the front-line correspondent Petrov was returning from the besieged Sevastopol, crashed or was shot down by a German fighter.

5. Svyatoslav Fedorov(72 years old). Ophthalmologist, politician. On June 2, 2000, the Eurocopter Gazelle helicopter, at the helm of which Fedorov was, crashed into a wasteland near the Moscow Ring Road.

6. Artem Borovik(39 years). Journalist, author of the books The Hidden War, How I Was a US Army Soldier, President of the Top Secret publishing holding. March 9, 2000 died in a plane crash Yak-40 in Sheremetyevo. Among the dead was also a well-known businessman, founder of the oil company "Alliance" Ziya Bazhaev.

7. Gennady Troshev(61 years old). Colonel General, commander of the federal troops during operations in Chechnya and Dagestan (1995-2002). On September 14, 2008, he died in a plane crash of a Boeing-737-500 of the Aeroflot-Nord airline in Perm, where Troshev was flying to a sambo tournament.

8. Lev Matsievich(32 years). Russian aviator, September 24, 1910, died in the first Russian plane crash during a demonstration flight at the All-Russian Aeronautics Festival in St. Petersburg. There is a legend that Matsievich was associated with the Social Revolutionaries and committed suicide because he did not fulfill the party task to kill Prime Minister Stolypin, who did fly with him shortly before the plane crash. In fact, Matsievich was associated with Ukrainian separatists, and the disaster happened due to technical problems.

9. Viktor Chistyakov(28 years). Soviet actor, "parody genius". He had an unsurpassed ability to imitate female voices (Zykina, Shulzhenko, M. Mathieu). On May 18, 1972, the plane on which he was flying crashed near Kharkov.

10. Sergey Biryuzov(60 years). Marshal of the Soviet Union, Chief of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces. On October 19, 1964, he died in a plane crash near Belgrade.

11. Vladimir Petlyakov(50 years). Soviet aircraft designer. Arrested in 1937, he designed the Pe-2 dive bomber in a "sharazhka", for which he was released and awarded the Stalin Prize. On January 12, 1942, he flew from Kazan to Moscow to meet with the top Soviet leadership about the need to return aviation specialists from the front. Pe-2, on which Petlyakov flew, fell and crashed. The most likely version is an engine fire, since the aircraft was not designed to fly at low altitude.

12. Konstantin Umansky(42 years). Soviet diplomat, ambassador to the United States and Mexico, author of the New Russian Art study. January 25, 1945 crashed on a plane during takeoff from Mexico City airport. Ilya Erenburg writes about a possible sabotage organized by Lavrenty Beria.

13. Alexander Kosopkin(51 years old). Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the State Duma, author of the book "Psychology of Lobbying in the State Duma". On January 9, 2009, a Mi-171 helicopter crashed in Altai, killing seven out of 11 people, including Kosopkin. The purpose of the flight is illegal hunting of argali listed in the Red Book.

14. Alexander Kazakov(30 years). Fighter ace, the most productive Russian pilot of the First World War: shot down 17 enemy planes (another 15 in group battles). He was awarded the Order of St. George, the Military Cross (Great Britain) and the Order of the Legion of Honor (France). Member of the White movement, served in the Slavic-British squadron of the Northern Army. On August 1, 1919, he crashed at the airfield (aged 30). According to eyewitnesses, he committed suicide due to the evacuation of British troops from Murmansk. On August 1, 2009, a monument was restored on his grave.

15. Jan Fabricius(52 years old). Latvian shooter, commander and commissar of the Red Army during the Civil War. Since 1927, a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). On August 24, 1929, the plane he was flying on crashed into the Black Sea near Sochi. Drowned while saving other passengers.

16. Igor Tkachenko(45 years). Commander of the aerobatic team "Russian Knights". On August 16, 2009, while preparing for the MAKS-2009 air show, Tkachenko's plane collided with another plane. The reason why he, despite the ejection, died, has not yet been reliably clarified.

17. Igor Farkhutdinov(53 years old). In 1995-2003 Governor of Sakhalin On August 20, 2003, the Mi-8 helicopter was missing, on board of which was the leadership of the Sakhalin Region. On August 23, the burnt remains of a helicopter were found 150 km south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. All 17 passengers and 3 crew members died.

18.Igor Esipovsky(49 years old). Governor of the Irkutsk region. On May 10, 2009, he died in a helicopter crash near the Malyshkino tract on Lake Baikal (49 years old). The flight was not coordinated with the air traffic control service. It has been suggested that the governor hunted bears.

19. Emil Spiridonov(55 years). Commander of the Pacific Fleet. On January 30, 1981, a Tu-104 crashed while taking off from the Pushkin military airfield near Leningrad, killing 52 officers of the Pacific Fleet, including 16 generals and admirals.

20. Petr Baranov(40 years old) Since 1924, head of the Air Force of the Red Army, candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). On September 5, 1933, he crashed on an ANT-7 aircraft. The government commission, headed by Tukhachevsky, admitted that "the cause of the disaster was extremely difficult meteorological conditions, under which the departure of an aircraft not prepared for blind flight was unacceptable." Nevertheless, permission to fly was obtained, although no other aircraft took off from the airfield that day.

21. Alexander Myasnikov(39 years). The real name is Myasnikyan. Soviet party and statesman. In December 1917, he temporarily acted as supreme commander in chief, established Soviet power in Belarus. In the 1920s, the first secretary of the Transcaucasian regional committee of the RCP (b). March 22, 1925 died in a plane crash near Tbilisi.

22. Polina Osipenko(31 year). Soviet pilot, one of the first female Heroes of the Soviet Union. She graduated from elementary school, begged the People's Commissar of Defense Voroshilov to take her to a flight school. In 1937 she broke three world records for high-altitude flights with and without cargo, in 1938 she made a non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far East. On May 11, 1939, she died together with the head of the main flight inspection of the USSR Air Force, Serov, practicing blind flights.

23. Svetlana Fedorenko(36 years old) Pilot-instructor, absolute champion of Europe in airplane sports. On August 16, 2009, she died as a result of the crash of a Yak-52 light aircraft in the Kaluga region.

24. Alexander Zuev(40 years). Captain of the USSR Air Force. In 1989, after feeding the attendants a cake with sleeping pills, he hijacked a MiG-29 plane to Turkey, where he was tried and acquitted. Received political asylum in the United States. Advised the US Air Force prior to Operation Desert Storm. On June 10, 2001, he died in a plane crash 160 km north of Seattle (40 years old).

25. Joseph Utkin(41 years old) Soviet poet. November 13, 1944 died in a plane crash, returning from a partisan detachment .

Compiled by Gleb STASHKOV

The plane is considered the safest mode of transport, but annually takes thousands of human lives. We remember the tragedies that Russian and Western famous people became victims of.

Recall that on the last day of March it became known that the co-owner of S7 and one of the five richest women in Russia died in a plane crash. The official statement of the press service says that the private plane Epic LT, on which Natalya flew with her father, crashed while landing in Frankfurt am Main. Other circumstances of the tragedy are still unknown.

Experts only had time to tell reporters that Egelsbach Airport, so beloved by owners of private jets, is considered one of the most dangerous in Europe - due to fog and the lack of a navigation system that is used during instrument approaches. Meanwhile, the aircraft model itself is, according to experts, one of the most difficult to pilot.

Reading such messages, once again you are convinced that in the face of a plane crash everyone is equal. And the stars are falling too. And not figuratively, but in the most literal - and tragic - sense of the word.

Dr. Lisa, 2016

On December 25, 2016, Elizaveta Glinka, better known as Doctor Lisa, passed away. She and 91 other passengers (among whom were also artists of the Alexandrov Ensemble and journalists of federal channels) of the Tu-154 aircraft died in the Black Sea - the liner crashed on the way from Adler airport to Syria.

For five months, experts carefully studied the causes of the crash. They also talked about a possible overload of the aircraft, and technical problems that arose on board. The final conclusion was as follows: the cause of the death of the Tu-154 was a violation of the spatial orientation of the ship's commander Roman Volkov.

Two weeks before her last flight, Dr. Liza gave a speech at the presentation of the state award in the Kremlin: “Tomorrow I fly to Donetsk, and from there to Syria, just like other volunteers. And we're not sure we'll make it back alive. Because war is hell on earth. And I know what I'm talking about."

Lech Kaczynski, 2010

This year, Poland will mark the ninth anniversary of the death of President Lech Kaczynski, the country's first lady, as well as a dozen members of the Polish military and political elite - all of whom died in a plane crash near Smolensk.

On April 10, 2010, mourning events dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the "Katyn massacre" were to be held. A group of high-ranking officials headed by President Lech Kaczynski flew out of Poland to participate in the events. The Tu-154M aircraft belonging to the Polish Air Force, having not reached its destination for several minutes, crashed to the ground and caught fire. All 88 passengers and 8 crew members died.

Versions of the tragedy were very different, up to the terrorist attack on board the aircraft, however, the international commission made a different conclusion. Pilot error led to the crash. That day there was thick fog over Smolensk, and the plane could (and should) have been landed at an alternate airfield, but the commander, for some reason, decided not to do this.

Aliya, 2001

In 2001, as a result of a plane crash, the life of 22-year-old singer Aliya was cut short. She has been called the "Princess of R&B" and one who, had she lived a little longer, could have outshone Beyoncé.

On August 25, the plane on which the singer and a group of musicians, dancers and stylists taking part in the filming of the video for the song Rock the Boat flew in a small light aircraft from the island of Abaco (in the Bahamas) to Florida. The aircraft crashed almost immediately - 60 meters from the runway. Aliya died on the spot from her burns and a head injury - according to the doctors who arrived, she had no chance of surviving.

The results of the investigation of the tragedy shocked the public. According to experts, pilot Louis Morales III, who was sitting at the helm, did not have a license, but there were traces of alcohol and drugs in his blood. The accident was also caused by the fact that the plane was overloaded with baggage, and the number of people exceeded the allowable limits.

Aliya's relatives told reporters that the tragedy could have been avoided if she had waited until the next morning - another flight was booked for this time, but the singer wanted to return home as soon as possible.

John Kennedy Jr., 1999

On July 16, 1999, a small Piper PA-32R-301 Saratoga II aircraft flew from the US state of Kentucky to Massachusetts - to the island of Martha's Vineyard. There were only three passengers on board the private liner - all with the surname Kennedy. The eldest son of the President of the United States John, his wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren flew to the wedding of their relative Rory Kennedy. 40-year-old John, who personally flew the plane, told the dispatchers about the departure at 20:38, and at 21:41 the aircraft disappeared from the radar.

As experts later reported, the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean due to poor visibility and pilot error. And if no one tried to dispute the first (many people talked about the fog that evening), then the second caused surprise - according to available data, John was an experienced pilot and, moreover, often flew that route. It is also known that on the day of the disaster, Kennedy's right leg was in plaster, because of which Carolyn even tried to dissuade her husband from flying, but he insisted on it ...

It should be noted that this was far from the first plane crash that claimed the lives of representatives of the Kennedy family. In 1948, John's sister Kathleen "Kick" Cavendish died along with her married lover, Earl Peter Fitzwilliam.

The young people were heading to Cannes for the weekend. To the north of Mount Ardèche, the plane got into a storm, which led to the crash of the liner and the death of all passengers. Kik was found in her chair, belt buckled, shoes off. She was only 28 years old.

Yuri Gagarin, 1968

Death in the sky overtook one of the most famous pilots in the world - Yuri Gagarin. In April 1961, she became the first person to travel into space, and seven years later, she tragically died during a test flight.

How this could happen to a professional in his field is still unknown today, 58 years later. "An unfortunate set of circumstances," read the official conclusion of the experts. Documents about the disaster remained classified for several decades, which only fueled rumors about the secret that they are hiding from us.

Another famous cosmonaut Alexei Leonov decided to reveal the truth. According to him, the fall of Gagarin's plane was provoked by a SU-15 flying just 10-15 meters away from him at supersonic speed, with a Soviet pilot sitting at the helm. His name is still unknown to the public. Simply put, Gagarin was "blown away" from the trajectory, and he, having lost control, fell in a forested area in the Vladimir region.

George, Prince of Kent, 1942

The uncle of Elizabeth II left his mark on history, but not as a wise ruler or a true patriot - George of Kent was only interested in social events and his own personal life. And she, despite the official status of a married man, was very rich with him. The secret services had to make a lot of efforts to hide from the public all the adventures of the British prince, known for his numerous bisexual relationships.

Anton Yelchin was born in Leningrad in 1989, at the same time his parents, professional figure skaters, moved to the United States. In the late 1990s, he began acting in films and TV series.

According to police, the engine of Yelchin's car was running when the body was found, and the gear lever was in neutral, while the driveway to the house is reported to have a rather steep slope.

As the police officers who arrived at the scene specified, everything looked as if Yelchin had been forced to get out of the car without putting it on the handbrake.

At the same time, the actor was pressed by his own car with such force that the metal gate sagged.

Russian film producer Sergei Konov, who worked with Yelchin, in an exclusive interview with "KP" said that among the versions of what happened, the police are considering a violent death.

On November 30, 2013, Hollywood actor Paul Walker, the star of the Fast & Furious film series, who was only 40 years old at the time of his death, also crashed in a car accident.

A double sports car Porsche, driven by a friend of the actor, crashed into a tree and caught fire, leaving no chance for any of the passengers.

Paul was burned alive.

Grace Kelly, who became the embodiment of the American dream, did not escape the evil fate, as she managed to go from a simple actress to the Princess of Monaco.

Grace Kelly had a heart attack while driving. In this state, the 52-year-old princess could not drive a car, as a result - he fell into the abyss.

Perhaps the most dramatic and high-profile accident can be recognized as a fatal accident with Princess Diana.

The causes of the accident in which Lady Di died are not known for certain to this day. As reported in Scotland Yard on the night of August 31, 1997, the car in which the princess was, the son of the Egyptian millionaire Al-Fayed and the driver, had an accident under the Alma Bridge.

A combination of several fatal factors led to fatal consequences - ignoring seat belts, a drunk driver, paparazzi camera flashes that followed the car and speeding the car.

The princess died in the hospital a few hours after a terrible accident.

Michael Hawthorne is the 1958 Formula 1 champion. In the year he won the first and only championship title for Ferrari, he retired from racing, deeply shocked by the death of his friend and rival, Formula 1 driver Peter Collins.

On January 22, 1959, just a few months later, Hawthorne died near London while driving a forced Jaguar.

According to one version, he and his friend Robert Walker staged a race on a public road, and as soon as Hawthorne managed to overtake an opponent's Mercedes-Benz Gullwing, he lost control and crashed into an oncoming Bedford truck.

After that, the car hit a tree, turning it upside down. Presumably, the speed at the time of the accident was 120 km / h.

The favorite of American youth, James Dean, had only two films to become a real star. The guy shone not only as an actor, but as a racer.

Dean was driving on U.S. Route 466 near Cholam, California. A black and white "Ford Custom Tudor" of 1950 with 23-year-old student of the California Polytechnic University Donald Thornpseed at the wheel was moving towards.

The student turned at the fork, crossing the path of Dean's car without seeing him. The two cars collided almost head-on. James Dean died en route to the hospital without regaining consciousness.

Jayne Mansfield is the main competitor of Marilyn Monroe in the battle for the title of the main sex symbol of the 50s.

After an evening performance on June 28, 1967 in Biloxi, Mississippi, Mansfield, her lover Sam Brody, personal driver Ronnie Harrison and her three children left for New Orleans, where the actress was to have a morning interview.

On June 29, at approximately 2:25 am, their car collided with a road train and flew under it. Three adults sitting in the front seat died instantly...

The children in the rear seats of the car suffered only minor injuries. There were rumors, later developed into an urban legend, that Mansfield's head was blown off in this accident.

On June 20, 2011, the 34-year-old American actor Ryan Dunn, who gained worldwide fame due to the projects "Jacks", "Apartment Mayhem" and "Long Live Bam!", passed away.

Dunn's Porsche car, which he was driving, flew into a forest belt at high speed, crashed into a tree and caught fire. By the time paramedics arrived, the car had burned to the ground.

Specialists identified Dunn by tattoos. Together with the actor, his friend died. The investigation showed that Dunn's blood alcohol content exceeded the legal limit.

On November 5, 2012, the vocalist of the American death metal band Suicide Silence, 28-year-old Mitch Lucker, died in a car accident. While driving his Harley Davidson motorcycle, the musician lost control and crashed into a pole, after which he hit a pickup truck.

Laker was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, but it was not possible to save him. He is survived by his wife and 5-year-old daughter.

On August 15, 1990, returning from fishing, on the 35th kilometer of the Latvian Sloka-Talsi highway near Tukums, Viktor Tsoi lost control, flew into the oncoming lane and collided with an Ikarus bus.

The speed at which Tsoi's "Moskvich" was traveling - 130 km / h - did not leave him a single chance to survive. The blow was so strong that he was buried in a closed coffin.

The examination showed that he was absolutely sober, according to the official conclusion of the investigation, Viktor Tsoi simply fell asleep at the wheel - friends and fans still do not believe this. Victor was 28 years old.

Actor Leonid Bykov died tragically while returning from his dacha, near the town of Dymer on the Kyiv-Minsk highway, while trying to overtake an asphalt skating rink.

Trying to avoid a head-on collision with an oncoming truck, Bykov sharply turned the steering wheel of his Volga and crashed into a skating rink at full speed.

The assumption of a heart attack, which overtook the actor and director right behind the wheel, was not confirmed during the investigation. Leonid Fedorovich was 50 years old.

The representative of the famous acting dynasty, the performer of the role of Edmond Dantes in the film "The Prisoner of the Castle of If" and Henry III in the TV series "Countess de Monsoro" Yevgeny Dvorzhetsky died on December 1, 1999.

The "nine" of the actor did not give way to an oncoming truck: at the last moment, for some unknown reason, the actor pressed the gas pedal. They say that at that time he turned on the phone to call his wife. Eugene was 39 years old.

45-year-old actor Alexander Dedyushko, known for the films "Operational pseudonym", "Officers", "Pseudonym", "Albanian", "Brigade", "Special Forces", died along with his wife, actress Svetlana Chernyshkova, and eight-year-old son Dima

Late in the evening on November 3, 2007, near the village of Starye Omutishchi, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Region, for unknown reasons, Dedyushko's Toyota Picnic car flew into the oncoming lane and crashed into an oncoming truck.

The blow was so strong that the passenger car was crushed under the front bumper, and the dead could not be identified for a long time.

The actor of the Moscow theater "Workshop of Pyotr Fomenko", the performer of the main roles in the films "Citizen Chief", "Penal Battalion", "Artist" Yuri Stepanov died at about one in the morning on March 3, 2010 in Moscow's Lublino at the intersection of Lublinskaya and Shkuleva streets.

Returning after the performance, the actor caught a ride - a VAZ-210 car. At a traffic light, a Mazda car crashed into him from behind, the blow was so strong that the car with the actor was thrown into the oncoming lane, where he collided with the Lada.

From numerous injuries, the actor died on the spot. Yuri was 42 years old, a few weeks after his death, his second son was born.

Valery Kharlamov is one of the most famous Soviet hockey players, two-time Olympic champion and eight-time world champion. In 1976, he got into a severe accident while driving his personal car, trying to overtake a truck.

Multiple fractures and a concussion, according to doctors, put an end to his sports career, but Kharlamov returned to the ice four months after the injury and continued his successful performances.

On August 27, 1981, on the Leningrad Highway, the Volga, which was driven by the wife of the hockey player Irina, flew into the oncoming lane, where it collided with a Zil car. The indirect cause of the accident was a wet track. All passengers of the Volga died on the spot: Valery and Irina Kharlamov, as well as her cousin Sergei Ivanov.

Mikhail Evdokimov is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, who gained wide popularity thanks to pop humorous monologues and parodies. In 2004, he won the election of the governor of the Altai Territory, but he worked in office for less than 1.5 years.

The accident happened on the Biysk-Barnaul highway: Mercedes-Benz, in which Evdokimov with a driver, a security guard and his wife were driving to a solemn event, at high speed (according to the investigation - at least 149 km / h, according to unofficial information - about 200 km / h ) went out to overtake the car "Volga".

Not having time to return to his lane, the driver of the "Mercedes" found a Toyota Marino passing car turning left in front of him, collided with it on a tangent and flew off the road.

Of those in the Mercedes, only Mikhail Sergeevich's wife survived, who was seriously injured. Toyota Marino driver Oleg Shcherbinsky was found guilty and sentenced to four years in prison, but public outcry after a long trial led to the fact that Shcherbinsky was fully acquitted.

Gennady Bachinsky - showman and presenter, who gained fame primarily thanks to a duet with Sergei Stillavin on the radio.

The accident occurred on January 12, 2008 in the Tver region on the highway Kalyazin - Sergiev Posad. According to the official version, 36-year-old Gennady Bachinsky overtook a truck in a prohibited place and collided with an oncoming VW Transporter.

It is possible that the accident was preceded by light contact with the truck being overtaken. One of the Volkswagen passengers, Yulia Merkulova, later died from her injuries.

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, theater and film actress Marina Golub was remembered for her participation in 80 films and television series, often playing supporting roles. She hosted several TV shows on the Rossiya channel.

On October 9, 2012, the actress was returning from a performance with the ominous name "Death Engine" in a taxi when a Cadillac crashed into the car at high speed, passing the intersection at a red traffic light.

The actress and the taxi driver died. The culprit of the incident Alexei Rusakov fled the scene of the accident. However, on August 5, 2013, he was sentenced to 6.5 years in a penal colony.