“Kogalymavia” Russian Aviation and argued about the causes of the collapse of the liner in Egypt – BBC Russian

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Image caption Airbus A321 “Kogalymavia” fell in the Sinai Peninsula shortly after takeoff from Sharm el Sheikh

Airline Guide “Kogalymavia” stated that crashed in Egypt A321 disintegrated in the air by some mechanical external force. Rosaviation called the statement premature.

“There is no such system failures aircraft, no combination of failures that could lead to the fact that the plane would collapse in the air,” – he said at a briefing in Moscow, the deputy director of the company on the organization of Flight operation Alexander Smirnov.

According to Smirnov, “Airbus” can not be destroyed in the air, even access to a prohibitive burden as Automatic liner will prevent attempts to pilots make any sudden maneuvers.

The head of the airline also ruled out pilot error.

“So the only explicable reason – it is a purely physical, mechanical action on the plane,” – concluded Alexander Smirnov.

He did not specify what this is what could be the impact, citing the need to await the outcome of the investigation. In response to leading questions of journalists, executives avoided the words “terrorist attack”, “bomb”, “missile” and similar assumptions.

Image caption Deputy Director General of “Kogalymavia” Alexander Smirnov (left) and Andrei Averyanov (center) and a representative of the holding company HS & amp; C Oksana Golovin

The head of the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) Alexander Neradko called the statement leadership “Kogalymavia” premature.

“Yes, we know that a very large area of ​​spread of the structure. This indicates that the destruction occurred in the air at high altitudes. But to talk about the reasons for this quite early and there is no reason “- quoted Neradko Interfax news agency.

A source in the group of experts studying the” black boxes “, said the plane was not subjected to external impact, and the pilot did not send distress, Reuters reported.

In the Russian press there were allegations that the pilots of the liner if complained before the flight on the condition of the engine. The leaders’ Kogalymavia “strongly shallows these assumptions. Deputy Director General for Engineering Support Andrei Averyanov said, that in the logbook during the last five flights no comment on the operation of the aircraft crews are not done.

Alexander Smirnov said that in October, personally several times flew as the commander of the aircraft on this ship, and any claims to maintenance As the plane with him and the crew did not have.

Image caption Portraits of the deceased crew A321 in the office “Kogalymavia” / Metrojet in Moscow

Guide “Kogalymavia” shallow and the assumption that the cause of the accident could be the consequences of the incident with the aircraft in 2001, when he landed in the same Egypt – only in Cairo – has been damaged the tail section . Then the plane exploited Lebanese airline.

Andrei Averyanov explained that after this, in the same year, the plane was repaired by the manufacturer, Airbus, at a factory in Toulouse, and to doubt the quality of the repair is not necessary.

The aircraft Airbus A321 of the company “Kogalymavia” following a flight from the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea to St. Petersburg crashed in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt early in the morning on Saturday.

All the 224 people who were on board were killed.