The group that 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 carry away even the young. And 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 person 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 took place on 11/30/2013. A charity auto show was held in the Philippines. Paul's friend Roger Rodas was driving the car. The car drove into the post, and a fire immediately occurred. The men did not even have the slightest opportunity to get out of the salon.
Shortly before his death, Paul began acting in the next part of the movie "Fast and the Furious". The episodes with him were not filmed to the end. However, in memory of the actor, the film crew finished 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 stopped admiring him. His friends somehow sensed something was wrong and tried to dissuade him from getting behind the wheel, but Dean did not listen to them. 09/30/1955 on one of the highways in California, "Porsche" James collided with another car and crashed 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 sum on her restoration. But she also failed to drive her idol's car to her heart's content: on the very first trip, she had an accident and received a neck fracture, 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 cars with spare parts from James's car were killed or injured in an accident. To wrap up, the Porsche mysteriously disappeared as it was being taken to a Los Angeles workshop.
Grace Kelly
09/13/1982, the most stylish princess suffered 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. Fortunately, Stefania 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 08/31/1997. In the car was Diana herself (in the main photo), at that time already the ex-wife of Prince Charles, her lover - the son of a billionaire from Egypt Dodi Al-Fayed, and the driver Henri Paul. Officials said that Henri was unable to cope with the controls. 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 made it to her destination. Lisa died on April 25, 2002. Attempts to avoid a collision with a truck driving into the oncoming lane were unsuccessful.
Gennady Bachinsky
The famous DJ was a partner of Sergei Stillavin in the morning show, which aired on Radio Maximum. Gennady died at the age of 36. A car accident happened in the Tver region on 12.01.2008.
Valery Kharlamov
This is a real legend of Soviet hockey. Valery has been involved in an accident more than once. The first accident happened in 1976. The doctors believed that he was unlikely to be able to return to the ice, since he could not walk for a couple of months. But Valery shocked everyone. He was in the ranks of the national team after 7 months. But the accident, which happened 5 years later, ended not so "successfully". On August 27, 1981, at the 74th kilometer of the Leningradskoye Highway, a 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 among his fans. Several people were shocked and failed to cope and committed suicide. Victor 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, experts found out that the actor himself was to blame for his death. 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-Kiev highway on 11.04.1079.
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 high speed, the driver of which violated traffic rules. The culprit of the tragedy fled from the accident scene. But he did not escape punishment.
Alexandrov Ensemble and Doctor Lisa
"Alexandrovtsy" in December 2016 went to Syria with a concert. On board the plane, apart from the crew and members of the ensemble, there were also journalists from various TV channels, 8 servicemen 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. There were only the hockey players and crew members on the plane, 45 people in total. The irreparable happened almost immediately. The plane gained a small altitude, but then crashed into a radio beacon, fell and exploded. Only two did not die right away: 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 talents. He is remembered as a film producer and actor. And Alexander was also a musician. On November 28, 2016, he went by helicopter to shoot the video "Rodina" in Belogorsk. Not even halfway through, the car fell. Kulikov received injuries incompatible with life and died immediately.
Victor 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 very punctual. 09/8/1972 he slept again. But the flight on which he was supposed to go to the concert was delayed, and he managed to get on the plane. The crash killed about 100 people, including children. Chistyakov also made it to this list.
Alia
They said that this singer will earn the fame of Beyoncé. But she died at 22. In 2005, in the summer, Alia and the film crew were in the Bahamas. The filming of the video was completed earlier than the expected date. The singer really wanted to go home. But the light-engine plane, into which the whole group was loaded, could not overcome even 100 meters. He fell due to overload. Everyone on board died.
Dry statistics show that the chance of becoming a victim of a plane crash is much lower than dying while traveling by any other means of transport.
Aviation accidents and disasters, however, always cause great resonance and frighten citizens. The significant number of victims is shocking: as a rule, when a modern airliner crashes, the death toll goes to tens.
No statistics helps here: emotions take over the mind.
In the face of a plane crash, everyone is equal: ordinary citizens, politicians, sports and show business stars.
AiF.ru remembered the tragedies of which Soviet and Russian celebrities became victims.
Air force hockey team MVO
At the dawn of the history of Soviet hockey, the MVO Air Force club was among the best teams in the USSR championship.
The patron saint of the pilot team was general of Aviation Vasily Stalin, son of Joseph Stalin.
On January 7, 1950, the hockey players flew to Sverdlovsk on a Li-2 plane, 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
When landing at Koltsovo airport in bad weather conditions, the plane crashed.
6 crew members and 13 passengers were killed. Among the dead were USSR national team goalkeeper 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 Ice Hockey Cup Boris Bocharnikov.
The legendary footballer and hockey player miraculously survived Vsevolod Bobrovwho missed the fatal flight.
Parodist Victor Chistyakov
Artist Viktor Chistyakov is sometimes called a pioneer in the genre of musical parody in the USSR. The unique voice allowed Chistyakov to reproduce the parts of both famous male and female singers equally accurately.
Victor Chistyakov. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Appearing on the stage at the end of the sixties, Chistyakov in a matter of months turned into a star, without which the main holiday concerts and "Blue Lights" could not do.
In the period from 1968 to 1972, Chistyakov gave more than 1000 concerts, and his popularity only grew.
On May 18, 1972, Chistyakov flew from the Moscow Vnukovo airport to Kharkov, where he was supposed to perform at the anniversary of the Operetta Theater.
The artist was late for 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.
When landing at the airport in Kharkov, the An-10 plane collapsed into pieces and crashed to the ground. Everyone on board died: 115 passengers and 7 crew members.
The government commission found that the cause of the disaster was the destruction of the wing center section in the air due to the rupture of the lower center section panel caused by fatigue cracks in the stringers and skin. After this disaster, the operation of An-10 aircraft was suspended, and then completely stopped.
Viktor Chistyakov was 28 years old.
An-10A board USSR-11215. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Football team "Pakhtakor"
On August 11, 1979, in the sky near Dneprodzerzhinsk at an altitude of 8400 m, two Tu-134A airliners collided on flights Chelyabinsk - Chisinau and Tashkent - Minsk.
The accident was caused by mistakes made by air traffic controllers. Killed 178 people aboard two aircraft.
Among the dead were 17 members of the Pakhtakor football team (Tashkent).
Among them - 24-year-old Vladimir Fedorov, bronze medalist of the 1976 Olympics and European champion among youth teams-1976, 26-year-old Mikhail An, captain of the USSR youth team, which won the European Championship, and many other talented athletes.
This tragedy is considered one of the darkest chapters in the history of both aviation and world football.
Collision of two Tu-134s over Dneprodzerzhinsk, tail section of one of the aircraft. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Journalist Artem Borovik
On March 9, 2000, the Yak-40D airliner performing flight VGV9651 on the Moscow - Kiev route, barely breaking away from 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 Artyom Borovik, one of the most popular Russian journalists, president of the publishing holding "Top Secret".
Son of the Soviet political commentator Genrikh Borovik, Artem Borovik worked as a journalist for various Soviet publications, including the newspaper "Soviet Russia" and the magazine "Ogonyok", on whose instructions he traveled to Afghanistan several times. In 1988, as a journalistic experiment, he served in the US Army for some time, about which he later wrote a book.
In the nineties, the newspaper and TV program "Top Secret" were very popular. The death of Artyom Borovik shocked people, there was talk that the journalist had become a victim of premeditated murder. However, experts came to the conclusion that the crash was due to a combination of two factors: pilot error and negligence of technical services, which did not process the aircraft with anti-icing fluid.
Politician Alexander Lebed
On April 28, 2002, near Lake Oyskoye, at the Buibinsky Pass (Krasnoyarsk Territory), a Mi-8 helicopter crashed. The governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Lebed, who was flying to the opening of a new ski slope, died from his injuries.
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 took part in a peacekeeping mission in Transnistria, after which he went into politics.
In 1996, Lebed helped Yeltsin once again: after finishing third in the first round of the presidential elections, he called on his supporters to support the current 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 notorious Khasavyurt agreements. 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 helicopter crew, who survived the crash, were brought to trial and sentenced to various terms of punishment.
Showman Artur Tumasyan
On May 3, 2006, the airliner Airbus A320-211 of Armavia airlines, performing 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 victims 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 airplanes, but his occupation left him almost no choice.
The Commission of the Interstate Aviation Committee, investigating the crash, came to the conclusion that the cause of the crash was crew errors.
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 the adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, Hero of Russia, Colonel-General Gennady Troshev.
Troshev gained fame commanding a group of Russian troops in the North Caucasus during the hostilities in Chechnya and Dagestan.
Troshev flew to Perm as a guest of honor to a sambo tournament together with the first vice-president of the All-Russian Sambo Federation Vladimir Pogodin.
The conclusion of the commission to investigate the disaster was as follows: the immediate cause of the crash was the loss of spatial orientation by the crew. It also revealed an insufficient level of pilot training and a low level of organization of flight and technical operation of the aircraft of this airline.
Hockey club "Lokomotiv" (Yaroslavl)
On September 7, 2011, the Yak-42D airliner of the Yak Service airline, making an international charter flight on the route Yaroslavl - Minsk, crashed a few seconds after taking off from the ground and completely collapsed. Part of the debris and the tail part fell into the Tunoshna River. Of the 45 people on board, only aviation and Radio Engineering Service Engineer Alexander Sizov.
This flight to Minsk for the first match of the new season of the Continental Hockey League was flying the hockey team "Lokomotiv" (Yaroslavl).
It included hockey players from Russia, Belarus, Sweden, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Germany, Canada.
The death of Lokomotiv was a real shock for hockey fans all over the world. Very young talents have passed away, such as the 20-year-old world youth champions Daniil Sobchenko and Yuri Urychevand the most experienced NHL players: 36-year-old Pavol Demitra, 37 years old Karlis Skrastinsh, 36 years old Ruslan Salei.
According to the commission's conclusions, the direct cause of the disaster was the erroneous actions of the aircraft commander or co-pilot (it was not possible to establish for certain), who involuntarily pressed the brake pedals during the takeoff run. This led to the appearance of a diving moment, which did not allow the aircraft to raise the nose wheel at the right time and start taking off from the runway. The plane managed to get off the ground from the ground, rolling out of the runway, but, having risen a few meters, began to fall to the left and fell. Serious shortcomings were revealed in the retraining of pilots for flights on this aircraft modification.
Elizaveta Glinka (Doctor Liza) and artists of the Alexandrov Choir
On the morning of December 25, 2016, the Tu-154B-2 airliner of the Russian Air Force, performing a flight on the route Moscow - Sochi - Latakia, crashed 70 seconds after taking off from the Sochi airport.
The plane crashed into the Black Sea, killing 84 passengers and 8 crew members.
Among the passengers were 65 members of the Aleksandrov Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army, who were flying to Syria to hold a concert for Russian servicemen at the Khmeimim airbase.
Killed and artistic head of the ensemble, lieutenant general Valery Khalilov.
On the same flight to Syria flew a public figure and human rights activist, head of the Fair Help Foundation Elizaveta Glinka, widely known as Doctor Liza.
She repeatedly visited the territory of Syria with humanitarian missions: she was involved in the delivery and distribution of medicines, the organization of medical assistance to the civilian population of Syria. This time, too, Elizaveta Petrovna accompanied a shipment of medicines to Syria for the Tishrin University Hospital in Latakia.
On May 31, 2017, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a possible cause of the crash was an error of the aircraft commander: “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 control bodies ". The investigation by the Investigative Committee into the disaster was not completed by the beginning of March 2019.
11/04/2010
The world's first fatal plane crash is believed to have occurred on September 17, 1908, when Tom Selfridge was killed in an airplane piloted by one of the Wright brothers. Last - April 10 near Smolensk. Over these hundred years, plane crashes have claimed many lives, including quite famous and outstanding people.
1. Yuri Gagarin(34 years). The first cosmonaut. On March 27, 1968, he died while performing 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 across 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 Valerievna put forward a version that the death of her father was organized by the NKVD officers.
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, 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 besieged Sevastopol crashed or was shot down by a German fighter.
5. Svyatoslav Fyodorov(72 years old). Ophthalmologist, politician. On June 2, 2000, the Eurocopter Gazelle helicopter, with Fedorov at the helm, crashed onto a vacant lot near the Moscow Ring Road.
6. Artem Borovik(39 years). Journalist, author of The Hidden War, How I Was a Soldier in the US Army, President of the Top Secret Publishing Holding. On March 9, 2000, he was killed in a plane crash of a Yak-40 aircraft at Sheremetyevo. Among the dead was also a well-known businessman, founder of the Alliance oil company, Ziya Bazhaev.
7. Gennady Troshev(61 years old). Colonel General Commander of the Federal Forces in Operations in Chechnya and Dagestan (1995-2002). On September 14, 2008, he died in a Boeing-737-500 plane crash of the Aeroflot-Nord airline in Perm, where Troshev was flying to a sambo tournament.
8. Lev Matsievich(32 years). Russian aviator, on 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 Socialist-Revolutionaries and committed suicide, because he did not fulfill the party's mission to kill Prime Minister Stolypin, who actually flew with him shortly before the plane crash. In fact, Matsievich was associated with Ukrainian separatists, and the disaster happened due to technical problems.
9. Victor Chistyakov(28 years). Soviet actor, "genius of parody". He possessed an unrivaled 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 a 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 was flying, fell and crashed. The most likely version is an engine fire, since the plane was not designed for low-altitude flights.
12. Konstantin Umansky(42 years). Soviet diplomat, ambassador to the United States and Mexico, author of the study "New Russian Art". January 25, 1945 crashed on a plane during takeoff from Mexico City airport. Ilya Ehrenburg 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 "The Psychology of Lobbying in the State Duma". On January 9, 2009, a Mi-171 helicopter crashed in Altai, seven of the 11 people died, including Kosopkin. The purpose of the flight is illegal hunting for argali, listed in the Red Book.
14. Alexander Kazakov(30 years). Ace fighter, the most productive Russian pilot of the First World War: shot down 17 enemy aircraft (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. August 1, 1919 crashed at the airfield (30 years old). According to eyewitnesses, he committed suicide due to the evacuation of British troops from Murmansk. On August 1, 2009, a monument was restored at 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 on which he flew fell 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, during preparations for the MAKS-2009 air show, Tkachenko's plane collided with another plane. The reason why he died, despite the bailout, has not yet been reliably clarified.
17. Igor Farkhutdinov(53 years old). In 1995-2003. Governor of Sakhalin. On August 20, 2003, a Mi-8 helicopter disappeared with the leadership of the Sakhalin Region on board. On August 23, the burnt remnants of the helicopter were found 150 km south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. All 17 passengers and 3 crew members were killed.
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, while taking off from the Pushkin military airfield near Leningrad, a Tu-104 crashed, 52 officers of the Pacific Fleet died, including 16 generals and admirals.
20. Petr Baranov(40 years) Since 1924, chief of the Red Army Air Force, candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). September 5, 1933 crashed on the 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 that was not prepared for blind flight was unacceptable." Nevertheless, permission to fly was obtained, although not a single aircraft was taken off 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 20s, the first secretary of the Transcaucasian Regional Committee of the RCP (b). On March 22, 1925, he died in a plane crash near Tbilisi.
22. Polina Osipenko(31 years). Soviet pilot, the bottom 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 the flight school. In 1937 she broke three world records for high-altitude flights with and without load, in 1938 she made a non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far East. On May 11, 1939, she died along with the head of the main flight inspection of the USSR Air Force, Serov, practicing blind flights.
23. Svetlana Fedorenko(36 years old) Instructor pilot, absolute European champion 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, having fed the attendants with 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. On November 13, 1944, he died in a plane crash while returning from a partisan detachment .
Compiled by Gleb STASHKOV
The plane is considered the safest mode of transport, but it takes thousands of lives every year. We remember the tragedies of which Russian and Western famous people became victims.
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. In an official statement from the press service, it is said that the Epic LT private jet, on which Natalia flew with her father, crashed while landing in Frankfurt am Main. Other circumstances of the tragedy are still unknown.
Experts only managed to tell reporters that Egelsbach Airport, so beloved by private jet owners, is considered one of the most dangerous in Europe - due to fogs and the lack of a navigation system that is used for instrument approaches. Meanwhile, the aircraft model itself is, according to experts, one of the most difficult to fly.
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 in a figurative, 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 another 91 passengers (among whom were also the artists of the Alexandrov ensemble and journalists from federal channels) of the Tu-154 plane 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 the possible overload of the aircraft, and technical problems that arose on board. The final conclusion was as follows: the reason for the death of the Tu-154 was the violation of the spatial orientation of the ship's commander Roman Volkov.
Two weeks before her last flight, Dr. Liza made a speech at the presentation of the state prize in the Kremlin: “Tomorrow I am flying to Donetsk, and from there to Syria, just like the other volunteers. And we are not sure if we will return 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 representatives of the Polish military and political elite - all of whom died in a plane crash near Smolensk.
On April 10, 2010, mourning events were to be held to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. A group of high-ranking officials headed by President Lech Kaczynski flew from Poland to take part in the events. The Tu-154M aircraft belonging to the Polish Air Force, not reaching its destination for several minutes, crashed to the ground and caught fire. All 88 passengers and 8 crew members were killed.
Versions of the tragedy were very different, up to the terrorist attack on board the plane, however, the international commission made a different conclusion. A pilot error led to the disaster. On that day, there was a 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.
Aliya, 2001
In 2001, as a result of a plane crash, the life of 22-year-old singer Aliya was cut short. She was called the "R&B princess" and the one who, if she lived a little longer, could outshine Beyoncé.
On August 25, the plane on which the singer and a group of musicians, dancers and stylists who take part in the filming of the video for the song Rock the Boat took off in a small light aircraft from the island of Abaco (in the Bahamas) to Florida. The aircraft fell almost immediately - after 60 meters from the runway. Aliya died on the spot from her burns and head trauma - according to the arriving doctors, she had no chance of surviving.
The results of the investigation of the tragedy shocked the public. According to experts, the 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 disaster was also caused by the fact that the plane was overloaded with luggage, and the number of people exceeded the permissible limits.
Aliya's relatives told reporters that the tragedy could have been avoided if she had waited until the next morning - at this time another plane had been booked, but the singer wanted to return home as soon as possible.
John F. Kennedy Jr., 1999
On July 16, 1999, a small Piper PA-32R-301 Saratoga II aircraft flew from the American state of Kentucky to Massachusetts - to Martha's Vineyard Island. There were only three passengers on board the private liner, all with the Kennedy surname. 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 piloted the plane, told the dispatchers about the departure at 20:38, and at 21:41 the aircraft disappeared from radar.
As experts later reported, the plane fell into the Atlantic Ocean due to poor visibility and pilot error. And if no one tried to dispute the first (many talked about the fog that evening), 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 a cast, which is why Carolyn even tried to dissuade her husband from flying, but he insisted on his own ...
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 own sister Kathleen "Kick" Cavendish died along with her married lover, Earl Peter Fitzwilliam.
Young people were heading for the weekend in Cannes. North of Mount Ardèche, the plane was caught in a storm, which led to the crash of the liner and the death of all passengers. Kik was found in her chair, belt fastened, shoes kicked 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 to space, and seven years later died tragically during a test flight.
How this could have happened to a professional in his field is unknown even today, 58 years later. “An unfortunate coincidence of circumstances,” read the official opinion of the experts. The documents about the disaster remained classified for several decades, which only fueled rumors about the secret that is being kept 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 at supersonic speed, at the helm of which a Soviet pilot was sitting. 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 forest 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 eventful 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 skaters, moved to the United States. In the late 1990s, he began acting in films and TV series.
According to law enforcement officials, the engine of Yelchin's car was running when the body was found and the gear lever was in neutral, and the driveway to the house was reported to be steeply downhill.
As the police officers who arrived at the scene clarified, everything looked as if something forced Yelchin to get out of the car without putting the hand brake on.
At the same time, the actor was pressed down with his own machine with such force that the metal gate caved in.
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 and Furious film series, who was only 40 years old at the time of his death, also crashed in a car accident.
A two-seater Porsche sports car, driven by a friend of the actor, crashed into a tree and caught fire, leaving no chance for any of the passengers.
The floor was burned to death.
Grace Kelly, who became the embodiment of the American dream, did not escape 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 the car, as a result - it fell into the abyss.
Perhaps the most dramatic and loud accident is the fatal accident with Princess Diana.
The causes of the accident in which Lady Di died are not reliably known 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, flashing paparazzi cameras that chased 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 shaken by the death of his friend and rival, Formula 1 driver Peter Collins.
On January 22, 1959, just a few months later, Hawthorne was killed 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 a rival Mercedes-Benz Gullwing, he lost control and crashed into an oncoming Bedford truck.
After that, the car hit a tree, twisting it by the roots. Presumably, the speed at the time of the accident was 120 km / h.
The favorite of American youth, James Dean, only two films were enough to become a real star. The guy shone not only as an actor, but as a racer.
Dean was driving US Route 466 near Cholam, California. A black-and-white 1950 Ford Custom Tudor with 23-year-old California Polytechnic student Donald Thornpeed at the wheel was heading towards.
The student turned at a fork, crossing the path of Dean's car without noticing him. The two cars collided almost head-on. James Dean died on his way to the hospital without regaining consciousness.
Jane Mansfield is the main competitor to 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 beloved Sam Brody, personal driver Ronnie Harrison and her three children left for New Orleans, where the actress was due for a morning interview.
On June 29, at about 2:25 am, their car collided with a road train and flew under it. Three adults sitting in the front seat died instantly ...
Children in the rear seats of the car received only minor injuries. There were rumors, which later grew into an urban legend, that Mansfield had his head blown off in this accident.
On June 20, 2011, 34-year-old American actor Ryan Dunn, who has gained worldwide fame through the projects "Freaks", "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. Before the arrival of the medics, the car burned out.
Dunn was identified 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.
Lucker was taken to hospital with serious injuries, but he could not be saved. 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 the 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 while driving - friends and fans still do not believe in this. Victor was 28 years old.
Actor Leonid Bykov died tragically while returning from a summer residence near the town of Dymer on the Kiev-Minsk highway while trying to overtake an asphalt roller.
Trying to avoid a head-on collision with an oncoming truck, Bykov abruptly turned the steering wheel of his Volga and crashed into the roller 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 "Prisoner of the Chateau d'If" and Henry III in the series "The Countess de Monsoreau" Yevgeny Dvorzhetsky died on December 1, 1999.
"Nine" of the actor did not make way for the oncoming truck: at the last moment, for some unknown reason, the actor pressed the gas pedal. They say that at this 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", "Spetsnaz", died 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 car was crushed under the front bumper, and the dead could not be identified for a long time.
Actor of the Moscow theater "Workshop Pyotr Fomenko", performer of the main roles in the films "Citizen Chief", "Penal Battalion", "Artist" Yuri Stepanov died at about 1 am on March 3, 2010 in Moscow Lyublino at the intersection of Lyublinskaya 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 impact was so strong that the car with the actor was thrown into the oncoming lane, where he collided with a "Lada".
The actor died on the spot from numerous injuries. 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 had a bad accident while driving his personal car while trying to overtake a truck.
Multiple fractures and concussion, according to doctors, put an end to his sports career, but Kharlamov returned to the ice four months after the injury and continued successful performances.
On August 27, 1981, on the Leningradskoye Highway Volga, driven by the hockey player's wife Irina, flew into the oncoming lane, where she 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 is widely known for his pop humorous monologues and parodies. In 2004, he won the elections for the governor of the Altai Territory, but he worked in this position 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 traveling 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 to overtake the car "Volga".
Not having time to return to his lane, the driver of the Mercedes found a passing car Toyota Marino turning left in front of him, collided with it tangentially and flew off the road.
Of those who were in the Mercedes, only Mikhail Sergeyevich's wife survived, receiving serious injuries. Toyota Marino driver Oleg Shcherbinsky was found guilty and sentenced to four years in prison, but public outcry after a lengthy trial led to Shcherbinsky being fully acquitted.
Gennady Bachinsky is a show-man and presenter who became famous primarily thanks to his duet with Sergei Stillavin on the radio.
The accident occurred on January 12, 2008 in the Tver region on the Kalyazin - Sergiev Posad highway. According to the official version, 36-year-old Gennady Bachinsky went to overtake a truck in a prohibited place and collided with an oncoming VW Transporter.
Perhaps the accident was preceded by light contact with the overtaken truck. One of the Volkswagen passengers, Yulia Merkulova, died later 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 "Russia" channel.
On October 9, 2012, the actress was returning by taxi from the performance with the ominous title "Deadly Engine" when a Cadillac crashed into the car at high speed, passing the intersection at a red traffic light.
The actress and the taxi driver were killed. The culprit of the incident, Alexey Rusakov, fled from the scene of the accident. However, on August 5, 2013, he was sentenced to 6.5 years in a general regime colony.
