#3650086 - 09/24/12 07:33 PM
Re: Tu-154M of "Syberia" - what really happens?
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Given the departure airport, I'd be surprised by anything other than DETOS. You won't put your money on Sinop, aren't you? Pity, no more maps available, but your sugestions looks pretty sound to me - I will not argue over it! Thanks for the opinion and help!
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#3650743 - 09/25/12 07:28 PM
Re: Tu-154M of "Syberia" - what really happens?
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Only because there isn't an approach from the south to Sinop - you'd have to make a longer route to hit it from West Or East... While you can just head north in a straight-ish line via DETOS UW-99 ODIRA.
Departure practically due south. Of course ~ with relations being poor between Israel and Syria/Lebanon, there might routinely be a large detour over the Med, making SINOP slightly more probable... but I'd still favour DETOS/UW-99.
Another consideration indicating a turn at ODIRA is that the plot has the aircraft someway south of the nominal corridor ~ this could be the result of an early turn intended to make up time? I am no expert in reading those flight maps - this is actually the first time I look at them - but looking at the way the plane turns from ENE to a NE course, that seems to fit pretty well with coming from Sinop at 60°, and turning at Odira to a more northernly course to follow B145 (42°); just by looking at the earlier posted maps of the turkish and Black Sea/russian airspace. I could imagine that they take a "detour" west around Cyprus... However, looking at the video screenshots a page or two back, it looks like the plane was coming down UL981 (122°), changed at Soblo to B143 (99°), and could then continue on B145 at PABIT("mirrored N" = "I"?) (42°). But such a course would only make sense if they want to avoid turkish airspace as well (9/11 again???). But even in that case, why fly that close to the Krim (actually over it, if the path shown on the plots is correct) and then turn south - why not just straight through the Ukraine, or if you want to avoid that as well (for whatever reasons, fees,...) on a more southernly route e.g. from Bulgaria... Maybe weather??? I guess there was no US carrier group in the Black Sea that blocked... ... Now I had an idea and look what I found: No carrier group (no US carriers allowed in the Black Sea by the Montreux Convention), but close enough Enduring Freedom Ops A total of 211 US Air Force planes used Ukraine's air corridors between 9 October and 7 November 2001, according to the Ukrainian Defence Ministry. During this period, 78 C-17 transport planes, five C-130 and 128 KC-135 tanker aircraft used the Ukrainian corridors, mainly over the neutral waters of the Black Sea where aircraft were refueled. In November and December 2001, US tanker aircraft based in Bulgaria flew about six missions a day to refuel warplanes in the Afghan theater. A Bulgarian military airport in the Black Sea became a de facto US base, with about 200 Americans stationed there. Twenty US military flights to or from Afghanistan crossed Romania each day. Okay, that started on the 9th and the Tu-154 was shot down on the 4th, but maybe there were already some "pre-ops" and restrictions on certain corridors at that time.
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#3650800 - 09/25/12 08:25 PM
Re: Tu-154M of "Syberia" - what really happens?
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However, looking at the video screenshots a page or two back, it looks like the plane was coming down UL981 (122°), changed at Soblo to B143 (99°), and could then continue on B145 at PABNT (42°). But such a course would only make sense if they want to avoid turkish airspace as well (9/11 again???). But even in that case, why fly that close to the Krim (actually over it, if the path shown on the plots is correct) and then turn south - why not just straight through the Ukraine, or if you want to avoid that as well (for whatever reasons, fees,...) on a more southernly route e.g. from Bulgaria... Maybe weather??? I guess there was no US carrier group in the Black Sea that blocked...
This plane is the Armenian airlines AN-24 (or 26) coming from Simferopol, which was eyewithess of the explosion. The pilot said that 40 degrees on his course in the zone RABBIT, he saw flash and a white cloud above him (AN-24 was at 6300 meters altitude, Tu-154M at 11 110 m)... On the video screenshot nothing below ODIRA was vissible... I am searching for the video of the pressconferens, but no luck at all (probably in any western media they could have some tape)....
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#3650864 - 09/25/12 09:55 PM
Re: Tu-154M of "Syberia" - what really happens?
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Ah, that explains this "oddity". Remains the point that the plotted path shows a left turn at ODIRA, which can be better explained from SINOPm 60°=>42°, whereas DETOS would usually be a right turn, 6°=>42°. But maybe I am taking that handdrawn yellow line too serious I have another little straw to support this, as another reason why they might have been routed west of Cyprus - on 22nd September Turkey opened its air space to the US and Incirlik AB became a main hub for the support of the war in Afghanistan; Incirlik is right on that way.
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#3651051 - 09/26/12 05:00 AM
Re: Tu-154M of "Syberia" - what really happens?
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I'm going to revise the route I favour ~ finding several contemporary reports that the aircraft landed at Burgas (Bulgaria) This Burgas stop info was released by a canadian TV journalists and was denied officially by bulgarian autorities and Siberia... I am thinking that those military airfleet movement toward Turkey could really reflect the route of the poor Tu, as fellow Who cares noticed. I have not much time to search right now, but I am determent to create .gpx for this situation, so stay tuned! I am gonna to research available documents and describe the events timeline here (should done this in the begining of the topic ) Who knows, maybe Hpasp will find a free spot in his schedule and implement this, so we can see what could been happend thrue S-200 cabin...
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#3652603 - 09/28/12 08:05 PM
Re: Tu-154M of "Syberia" - what really happens?
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Those fragments are found into the plane wreckage... (thanks to user ADI from balancer.ru)
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#3653133 - 09/29/12 06:08 PM
Re: Tu-154M of "Syberia" - what really happens?
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The 5V28E V-880E (SA-5B Gammon) Surface to Air Missile 5B14S Warhead contains 21,000pcs 3.5g and 16,000pcs 2g steel ball fragments. hpasp... do u have any picture's about sam missile fragments ?????? those fragments is like ball or bullet or pellet?
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#3654793 - 10/02/12 04:28 PM
Re: Tu-154M of "Syberia" - what really happens?
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The 5V28E V-880E (SA-5B Gammon) Surface to Air Missile 5B14S Warhead contains 21,000pcs 3.5g and 16,000pcs 2g steel ball fragments. hpasp... do u have any picture's about sam missile fragments ?????? those fragments is like ball or bullet or pellet? According to the Hungarian manuals, they are steel balls.
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#3654956 - 10/02/12 07:55 PM
Re: Tu-154M of "Syberia" - what really happens?
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With these, the plotted Tu154 is over 20km beyond the nominal track of Odira ~ and I'd be surprised by such a large discrepancy in Soviet airspace? The terrain in actuality (SRTM) doesn't match well with either the Air/Navigation chart, nor the plotting board representation, although coordinates recorded are aligned across the multiple documents. Other tracks are similarly displaced further than the route would suggest. The initial impression is one of sloppy calibration and practices, although that might be harsh, as they did successfully engage an airborne target with a single round. Those are from court documents, which I've manage to translate with google: ...Question 12. Are requests for information were made by experts from all dispatchers that accompanied the October 4, 2001 Tu-154M, relatively working / non-working system recognition nationality Tu-154M across the route of his flight? Did the request to the radio battalion in Kerch (on radar P-14 which was observed Tu-154M) as to whether it was turned on a Tu-154M system recognition nationality? Reply. Experts have access to data from fotocontrol over the years since the accident to the present date. Military Radars constantly do recognition of the nationality of aircraft markings which are seen on the screen. The radar mark of the Tu-154M of "Siberia" on the display radar P-14 (Kerch) never had a mark, which confirms the aircraft response to requests from the radar. This clearly proves that the IFF system of the aircraft did not work(or was turned off or was not workable). In the course of the commission of inquiry into the disaster in Sochi Russian military did not refute the information that air defense system of Russia on the Black Sea coast worked on a Tu-154, both in plane-violator state border of Russia for the same reason. Question 13. According to expert opinion (p. 20) "According to objective scrutiny Ukraine (RLS 5N84F orlr Theodosius) of Tu-i54M signal "I am own" was absent throughout the route of his flight to the point of disaster." Explain the sources of these data (due to the fact that in the file they are absent, and the conclusions of the experts can not see any applications experts to obtain such data). Reply. Already provided in response to item 11. .....................................
"Control is primarily subject to aircraft approaching the area landfill, as well as having to move an application (no later than 2 hours before take-off) route. Tu-154 charter flight and was not declared (this is known to the experts in airport "Adler" and IAC in Sochi). objective control materials from RFCs "Gelendzhik" showed the route of the aircraft after it crossing of the Turkish border, which route took place from the very beginning outside the permitted flight corridor (as the flight mode violator) and only after the radio connection to the airport "Adler" he walked into the corridorand began comply with secondary radar RFCs "Gelendzhik" and the airport "Adler". Also: "As a result of the objective control, the established radio hardware of S-200B during exercises 10/04/2001 found and accompanied only the target BP-3"Reis" in its receiding (up to 80 km) and its approaching started from a distance of 78 km. The target was destroyed by the S-300PS at a distance of 11 km from the S-200V (12 hours. 42 minutes.), therefore its support in the future radio engineering means the S-200V was physically impossible and radiation ROC was dismissed for 3 minutes before the disaster Tu-154, as defined in the materials of the MAC. " ........................
"H. Range 28. In response to questions 8 (pp. 18-19 Opinion) during training Oct. 4, 2001 as a result of objective control combat crews radar P-18 discovered and accompanied only target BP-3 "Reis" as if its distance (to a distance of 80 km) and at the approach (from a distance of 78 km), which was confirmed by photocontrol(fototablitse 13). Radar illumination target(RPN) 5N62V discovered and escorted target BP-3 "Flight" at a distance of 72 km at 12 h. 36 minutes. local time, as evidenced by data from reporting card. "
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How about that guys? As they didn't use IADS, and start searching that target with azimuth scaning (because no P-14, but P-18) like this: BEFORE 12.36.00 Kiyev time, when azimuth distance between Tu-154M and the "Reis" target should be less than 10 degrees: So it seems that they acquired Tu-154M at the very begining, thus make senseless that real target was destroyed with S-300PS at 12.42.20 (2 min. 40 sec. before crash), as at 12.42.20 S-200 was tracking another target (i.e Tu-154M). Nevertheless: The termination of radiation from RPN for 3 minutes until the Tu-154 is set on the basis of expert explanations Officials contained in the case. ... which are highly interested not to be accused!!!...
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#3655293 - 10/03/12 07:04 AM
Re: Tu-154M of "Syberia" - what really happens?
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So it seems that they acquired Tu-154M at the very begining, thus make senseless that real target was destroyed with S-300PS at 12.42.20 (2 min. 40 sec. before crash), as at 12.42.20 S-200 was tracking another target (i.e Tu-154M). Nevertheless:
Yes, it is in perfect match with previous Hpasp's finding - in the moment of IFF check, photo take and so (quite a time) 5N62 was not locked on the target. So after it they had to reacquire it and they locked the Tu-154. It is also a must in case it was shot down - the missile HAD TO START with long distance flight program else it would not get so far. The termination of radiation from RPN for 3 minutes until the Tu-154 is set on the basis of expert explanations Officials contained in the case. ... which are highly interested not to be accused!!!...
Agree....
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#3655378 - 10/03/12 11:35 AM
Re: Tu-154M of "Syberia" - what really happens?
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So it seems that they acquired Tu-154M at the very begining, thus make senseless that real target was destroyed with S-300PS at 12.42.20 (2 min. 40 sec. before crash), as at 12.42.20 S-200 was tracking another target (i.e Tu-154M). Nevertheless:
Yes, it is in perfect match with previous Hpasp's finding - in the moment of IFF check, photo take and so (quite a time) 5N62 was not locked on the target. So after it they had to reacquire it and they locked the Tu-154. It is also a must in case it was shot down - the missile HAD TO START with long distance flight program else it would not get so far. I think the picture is a total fake, done after the exercise... Still don't know how it happens with a launch, without using distance determination. Also there is some technical stuff about radiofuse and trajectry...
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